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Music | Thursday, March 29,2012

Confessions of a (minor) rock star

Mike Doughty performs at Legacy Theatre March 30

By Scott Faingold
Mike Doughty has been through the ringer. The former lead vocalist for sample-heavy ’90s alternative-rock mainstays Soul Coughing (“Super Bon Bon,” “Circles”) has put a l
Music | Thursday, December 29,2011

This Langfelder son is a New York singer

Home for the holidays, Jacob Langfelder performs in Springfield Dec. 29

By Julie Cellini
From the moment he made his musical debut at age 10, lip syncing Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” at Blessed Sacrament School’s talent show, Jacob Langfelder wanted to be on sta
Music | Thursday, September 29,2011

Hip-hop in the Heartland

The talent at Torch Tuesday may be the Springfield music scene’s best-kept secret

By Scott Faingold
[SOUND EFFECTS: needle drops onto vinyl; surface static; reporter clears throat]I’ll never forget the day I stumbled onto Springfield’s underground hip-hop scene. It all started with Raekw
Music | Thursday, June 10,2010

The mysterious Lazer Dudes

Springfield’s own electro-rock-sex-revival adventure

By Tom Irwin
Black leather fingerless gloves. Love Club and Stripping Glitter. Tattoos of strange designs in stranger places. Cahokia Mounds and MoonPandas. What link ties these odd and peculiar things together? A
Music | Thursday, March 25,2010

Central Illinois bands in Texas

Sounds from home at South by Southwest music fest

By Matthew Schroyer
Austin, Texas — At the South by Southwest music festival, the spring break of the music industry, sensory overload is practically guaranteed. From March 17-21, nearly 2,000 acts played in Austin
Music | Thursday, March 11,2010

Urban music radio comes to Springfield online

By Jolonda Young
It began with a childhood dream of becoming a radio personality. But when Angel Macon sent demos to countless area radio stations, none responded. Instead of idly waiting for that big break, Macon too
Music | Thursday, February 18,2010

REO Speedwagon rolls home

Central Illinois’ classic rock favorite sons perform here Feb. 25

By Scott Faingold
“When I look down the tour itinerary and see towns like Springfield and Champaign, the word that immediately comes to mind is ‘home,” says REO Speedwagon’s lead singer Kevin Cr
Music | Thursday, December 3,2009

Springfield Choral Society sings for peace

Weekend concert also honors service members

By Amanda Robert
Marion van der Loo was already thinking about Christmas back in June.As the music director of the Springfield Choral Society listened to “Jul, Jul, Strlande Jul,” a song from Sweden that
Music | Wednesday, February 11,2009

Buddy Holly tour was scheduled for Springfield “The Day the Music Died”

By Gregory Harutunian
The musicians of the “Winter Dance Party 1959” played Kenosha, Wis., on Jan. 24 of that year, one of the few stops on an ill-fated sojourn which ended for Buddy Holly in an Io
Music | Wednesday, January 14,2009

Music ‘repairing the world’

Rick Recht comes to Springfield to “Tear Down the Walls”

By Patrice Worthy
Love your neighbor as you love yourself. It’s a commandment familiar to both Jews and Christians, but it takes a person of strong faith to both talk the talk and walk the walk. Ri