Some bands take thirty minutes to warm up. Negative Scanner goes from zero-to-sixty in thirty seconds or less, and keeps the tension and energy taut for the entire performance. Driving assertive and intersecting guitars and vocals just short of howling (reference Siouxsie and the Banshees and Sex Pistols) take you to the edge of frenzy with changes of pace but no change-up pitch. Always left wanting more. (Bart Lazar) Negativescanner.bandcamp.com
Best Forever and Ever: Thirty Years of Best of Chicago Summer, 1993; we were undertaking the first-ever Best of Chicago and we'd set the bar high: to transform the idea of a "service feature" into something else entirely: a living, breathing, surprising, even shocking snapshot of the greatest city in the world at that moment.
