This is the story of the rise and fall of the greatest club in America: Chicago’s Lounge Ax, and the club’s iconoclastic house band, the Coctails. We speak with Lounge Ax owners Julia Adams and Susan Miller Tweedyand the Coctails’ Mark Greenbergabout the city of Chicago, creeping gentrification, drawing monkeys on envelopes with Fred Armisen, unaired Coke commercials, and much more.
Hosted by Dylan Metrano and Gregory Moss.
Episode artwork (The Coctails) by Alan Bull.
