Ontario Punks Zex Swagger Through Chicago On Their Biggest U S Tour Yet

• Photo by C.T.
• Zex

When I wrote about the new Raydios single in April, I called their front man’s old group Teengenerate “the best punk band in the world.” To mitigate the boldness of that statement, I qualified it: “I’m not referring to ‘punk’ in the ‘bondage pants and great big pointy haircuts’ sense,” I said, “but rather to an in-the-red descendent of undomesticated 60s garage rock.”