The Fuze Box, today, is much like its predecessor of yesterday — when it was very lovingly known as the “QE2,” or to the throngs of die-hard regulars, just “The Q.”

The iconic building is the same and the attraction of counterculture music, art, and purveyors of such is the same — some have called it “like having a CBGB’s within driving distance.”

And that iconic building that’s hard to miss – an old White Tower. White Tower was an iconic restaurant chain started in the late 1920s in the midwest — a rip off of White Castle, but still financially successful.

The White Tower building was vacant until 1985 when Charlene and Dave Shortsleeve purchased the building in turned it into the QE2 club and performance venue. 

And it should be said that it’s far more than eye candy when you walk in, the hallowed halls of music that has blared, bumped, and boomed inside those walls is nothing short of impressive. A short list (abbreviated, not lacking in musical history) to behold: 

Cindy Lee Berryhill
Miracle Legion
King Diamond
Big Barn Burning
Snatches of Pink
Genitorturers
Subduing Mara
Dramarama
The Sidewinders
Crisis
The Flying Buttresses
Clay People
Colourforms
Decadent Royals
1,000 Young
Soul Asylum
Nice Strong Arm
The Figgs
Coffin Break
Skin Yard
Jesus Lizard
Pegboy
Afghan Whigs
Alex Chilton
Greg Ginn
Doc Dwarf
The Mercy Seat (Gordon Gano)
Sonic Youth
Das Damen
Beme Seed
ALL
Alice Donut
Killdozer
Unsane
Helmet
Soundgarden
Living Colour
Cop Shoot Cop
The Neighborhoods
Love Battery
The Magnolias
Lunachicks
Celibate Rifles
Rhythm Pigs
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Marky Ramone and the Intruders
Goo Goo Dolls
Plasmatic’s
Jim Carroll
Cowboy Junkies
Giant Sand
Marilyn Manson
Volga Boatmen
Lemonheads
The Lawn Sausages
Trauma School Dropouts
Clutch
Shadow Falls
Geezer Butler
Material Issue
Urge Overkill
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Merauder
Stigmata
Integrity
Dog Eat Dog
Politics of Contraband
JayHawks
Syd Straw
Rocky Velvet