Rock N' Roll

“John would have wanted the record to come out. The music was what was important to him, and he would have wanted us to keep going.” — The Effigies drummer Steve Economou. The new album from The Effigies begins, unfortunately, with a moment of tragedy. Just as the long-running and influential Chicago punk band was finishing its fifth album Burned in late 2023, singer John Kezdy was killed in a biking accident.