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Article: Lounging Around // Retro Rocket: Hi-Fi Culture's Cool Comeback
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
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Life is back in the hi-fi again.
Hip Chicagoans are drinking martinis, smoking cigarettes and
dusting off high fidelity Henry Mancini records. Their shticks are
swizzled.
Lounge culture - that cheesily elegant by-product of the late
'50s and early '60s - is unmistakably on the rebound. Like life
itself, lounge is what you make it: hi-fi suave, Hawaiian shirts,
Dean Martin or Marina City.
One thing is clear: It's a gold chain reaction.
Music, of course, is the conduit for lounge culture. But the
hi-fi thing would lose its swing without campy ornamentation.
Vinyl, 1615 N. Clybourn, hosts Hi-Fi Tuesdays, which connect the
music of Julie London and Esquivel with beehive hairdos, go-go ...