Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never ...

A framed gold record of the J. Geils Band’s 1980 album, “Love Stinks,” hangs in the back room of McSorley’s Old Ale House ... empty and full, of ale light and dark. He’d come from ...

The Remains, a legendary rock band of the mid-1960s with Connecticut roots, a massive following in the thriving Boston music scene, a debut album on ... memoir by J. Geils Band vocalist Peter ...

Peter Wolf, the former frontman of the J. Geils Band, is telling all about his life ... Since Wolf didn't drive, he was stuck at Nicholson's house in the awkward situation, He ended up calling ...

Heck, you won’t hear about the rise and fall of The J. Geils Band — he was the frontman ... drunk in Keith Richards’ closet at a beach house party, and Dunaway, frantic that Wolf drowned ...

Before he was the rambunctious frontman for the J. Geils Band ... Records, the band scored major hit albums with “Love Stinks” and “Freeze Frame.” But although the Geils Band has been ...

Since splitting with the J. Geils Band, he’s made eight solo albums that have been praised ... work with him on those chapters only in his house. “I wanted Peter to feel safe,” she says ...

(The appearance is advertised as a discussion only, but we hear there’s a chance he might sit in with the house band ... the J. Geils Band finally hit the big time in the late 1970s, culminating with ...

Like the new ‘Merciless’ album cover, Japan says they don ... I heard everything from Pink Floyd to J. Geils Band to Boston to ELO to Mott the Hoople to Edgar Winter,” he recalls.

By Penelope Green Mary Turner Pattiz, who as Mary Turner was a silky-voiced disc jockey at KMET, the album-oriented rock ... the lead singer of the J. Geils Band, for her seductive delivery ...

Jett’s 1981 hit remains one of her signature songs and is taken from her debut self-titled album It was one of ... the form of a rendition of The J. Geils Band’s ‘Centerfold’.

Indeed, the arrival of Bloodshot fifty years ago signaled the J. Geils Band’s time and this first of two (!) 1973 albums on Atlantic Records remains one in a string of their most enduring efforts.