![An illustration of avant-garde no-wave collective the Devil Bell Hippies embedded in the title card for the Secret History of Chicago Music](http://i0.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SH_Devil_Bell_Hippies-1.jpg?fit=300%2C250&ssl=1)
When I finished college downstate and moved to the Windy City in 1995, the Chicago no-wave scene was breaking apart. While still in school, I’d often driven three hours to catch gigs here, and after my move I caught the last shows by local no-wave stars the Scissor Girls and Lake of Dracula. The original […]
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