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Althea Legaspi

Music, Eight Forty-Eight

Althea Legaspi has been covering all things music for more than a decade. She is the former editor in chief of Illinois Entertainer magazine and currently writes for Chicago Tribune, Paste magazine, Global Rhythm magazine, and Stop Smiling magazine, among others.

Her features air on Eight Forty-Eight and All Things Considered. Althea has served as an on-camera correspondent for Rollingstone.com, HOB.com, and the television show Sound Opinions, as well as co-hosted Q101’s Local 101.
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