The Effigies were part of a small but mighty contingent of bands that launched Chicago’s first wave of punk. Formed in 1980, they charged out of the gate with a fast, brash sound that proved foundational to midwestern hardcore. “Guns or Ballots,” from the live 1981 compilation Busted at Oz, set the template for that […] The post Chicago punk pioneers the Effigies release a final album with late front man John Kezdy appeared first on Chicago Reader.