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Avondale Electric built lifelong friendships playing psychedelic rock
Credit: Steve Krakow for Chicago Reader Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place …