Music | Thursday, February 24,2005

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Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors are back in town at the Illinois Central Blues Club Blue Monday Jam at the Alamo (115 N. 5th St., 523-1455). The San Francisco area band is a k

Music | Thursday, February 17,2005

music notes 2-17-05

By Tom Irwin

An explosion of Springfield songwriters is set to go off at Mojo’s (225 E. Monroe St.) around 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18. Included in Reirer “the Proprietor” Deloney

Music | Thursday, February 17,2005

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Intelligent, innovative, woefully underrated

By René Spencer Saller

Bettie ServeertAttagirl (Minty Fresh) Indie rock, like most cultural enterprises, is not a meritocracy. Consider Bettie Serveert, the Amsterdam-based outfit front

Music | Thursday, February 10,2005

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Usher in the next Legend

By René Spencer Saller

John LegendGet Lifted Getting Out Our Dreams/Sony As a producer, rapper, and talent scout, Kanye West effected a kind of hip-hop hegemony in 2004, gobbling up all

Music | Thursday, February 10,2005

music notes 2-10-05

By Tom Irwin

Hop on over to the Forty-Niner Bye-Bye (518 Bruns Lane, 217-787-4937) on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., as the lovely and talented Juanita celebrates her birthd

Music | Thursday, February 3,2005

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Faithfull finds her final Frankenstein

By René Spencer Saller

Marianne Faithfull has led a larger-than-life life, neatly divisible into iconic phases: aristocratic ingenue, folk/pop princess, Stones consort, street junkie,

Music | Thursday, February 3,2005

music notes 2-3-05

By Tom Irwin

¥ What’s this — Springfield is discovering Mardi Gras? Well, sort of. Bars along the Fifth Street Strip have banded loosely with the distributor of the world’s top-sel

Music | Thursday, January 27,2005

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By Tom Irwin

Prepare yourself for the funkifying return of the funktastic, neofunkadelic Freekbass, playing 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Underground City Tavern (700 E. Adams St.,

Music | Thursday, January 27,2005

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Remembering Junior Kimbrough

By René Spencer Saller

Various ArtistsSunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum) Few album concepts are as unappealing as a bunch of irony-fortified, eccentrically coifed white r

Music | Thursday, January 20,2005

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The master of two idioms

By René Spencer Saller

Styrofoam Nothing's Lost (Morr Music) Guitars and computers have been cohabitating peacefully and profitably for years now. First there was New Order, then there was Radiohead, then there were