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newly booming new wave and post-punk scene, these pivotal
parts of Chicago's musical history merged at 3730 N. Clark
Street. Metro and smartbar still serve as a hallowed stage for
important bands, DJs and live acts. smartbar is the focal
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walls, the kind forged only by the passage of time.
Over the years, smartbar has hosted everyone from
Jeff Mills and Thomas Bangalter to Ben UFO and
SHERELLE, while upstairs, the 1,100-capacity Metro has
been equally important for rock music, welcoming
iconic bands like Sonic Youth and The Smashing
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album inside the original smartbar, which was located
on the building's fourth floor. (It now houses both
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For smartbar and Metro founder and owner Joe Shanahan, it was never about being in the live music business. It was about records and having a place to share them with his service industry peers. His relationship with DJing goes as far back as his grammar school days on the South Side of Chicago, where he collected records and played them in the garage for his friends, neighbours and family.
"I always had a good collection of records, mostly 7-inch singles that I could afford with my paper route money," he said. "For 99 cents, you got two songs, and sometimes the A and B-sides were just as good. I amassed about 100 7-inches, spanning labels like Stax, Motown, Chess Records, Cadet and Wand, many of which were based in Chicago. That's where my love of music comes from—records. It wasn't seeing a live band that sparked my interest in this business. It was the dance parties I hosted in my garage."
In his late teens, Shanahan bought two turntables and a Numark mixer. He was working as a bartender and waiter at the time, and he would invite groups of people who also worked late nights to his live-in loft, where his sets would start at about 4 AM. ("We were afterhours before we ever really knew what afterhours clubs were," he said, laughing.)…
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