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INDIE MUSIC SCENE IN THE BLUE COLLAR BELT

This is a survey about the indie music scene in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin focusing on the cities of Dekalb, Rockford, Beloit, Madison, and a few of the Chicago suburbs. (Chicago would need its own survey)

The survey is not mean to be exhaustive but will provide a thumbnail sketch of venues artists and the day-to-day lives of a few of the people in the indie scene in this locale. The article is relevant to the music industry as a whole in that these enclaves of struggling musicians and artists are mirrored in other areas of the country. The names and venues are different to be sure, but the commonality of indie-folk, indie-pop, indie-rock and folk and singer-songwriters across the country is important because it literally is a musical community of people who with a look and a sigh know, even from a stranger indie musician, can tell the struggle or the success of their moment in that day or how things have been going.