Local rock station Q101 may be just a memory, but the amazing music that poured out of the city in the ’90s still sounds great. Here’s 5 kickass albums by Chicago bands from the 1990s. Enjoy!

The rise and fall (and rise again) of Chicago’s very own Smashing Pumpkins. An epic love story by Gene Wagendorf.

Six questions from UPChicago. Six answers from Jeremy David Miller of Rambos. If you like ‘em, turn ‘em up.

You can call him a musician, a poet, a celebrity, an asshole- he has been all of those things through the course of his career- but more than anything you have to call him driven. Thirty years after forming the Smashing Pumpkins, Chicagoan Billy Corgan is still recording and releasing music.