Welcome to this bonus episode of sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott. He's Jim De Regottis and this week we're checking in on how things are going for independent venues in Chicago.

Here to talk with us about her article for the Chicago reader an excellent article I might add on this very subject is Kendall Polydory

All right welcome to sound opinions Kendall

Thanks for having me

Kendall recently graduated from the journalism program at Columbia College, Chicago, and I will say, Mr. Cot, I had her in two classes last semester, one of the best students I've ever had. Kendall, you make a struggling teacher proud. You're now you've got a

full-time job right out of school working for Luckbox magazine as a writer and editor. You're

a freelance music writer. got your own music blog,

talking records, Kendall doesn't sleep.

Ed she hangs out with local Chicago musicians

dig deep into who they are and their outside work.

You were writing specifically for the Chicago

reader about the way Save Our Stages is playing out in Chicago, but we can

extrapolate this nationwide. Because the news ain't good, is it, Kendall?

No, not at all. So this money ain't good is it Kendall no not at all so this money ain't flowing no still not

after more than a year not flowing I think everybody in the music world thought

ah thank God the legislation has passed. It was part of that last huge push

by Congress to get money to businesses who are struggling. And thankfully, they recognized

tiny venues from 100 hundred hundred fifty capacity all the

way up to you know theaters of several thousand as long as they were independent not

the big corporate monsters of Live Nation, but it was revelatory to mean when you did that

report that their hands are still out and the money hasn't flowed.

Why?

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