Sean Neumann got hooked on this city’s south-suburban punk scene in the late 2000s, just in time for an early view of some of the musical voices that would influence Chicago’s DIY scene in the coming decade, including outsider-pop auteur Nnamdi Ogbonnaya and Julia Steiner, who fronts the inimitable country-emo group Ratboys. As those musicians trickled into Chicago, Neumann followed suit after spending four years at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in the mid-2010s, which included a year working as an intern for great midwestern indie label Polyvinyl.…
Sean Neumann got hooked on this city’s south-suburban punk scene in the late 2000s, just in time for an early view of some of the musical voices that would influence Chicago’s DIY scene in the coming decade, including outsider-pop auteur Nnamdi Ogbonnaya and Julia Steiner, who fronts the inimitable country-emo group Ratboys. As those musicians trickled into Chicago, Neumann followed suit after spending four years at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in the mid-2010s, which included a year working as an intern for great midwestern indie label Polyvinyl.…