Since March, talent buyer and indie-scene workhorse Alicia Maciel has been working with a group of locals to present next month’s DeffJam. This all-ages blowout, held at Thalia Hall on Saturday, January 3, honors the late Ryan Deffet, who led Chicago bands Space Gators and Faux Furrs. Deffet foun ded DeffJam in 2016 in his native […] The post DeffJam honors its late founder with its biggest fest yet  appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less