Music | Wednesday, November 10,2004

music notes 11-11-04

• Here's a chance to watch someone sing for someone else's supper: Gary Burt, the Prairie Crooner, romps through the Sinatra catalog to help raise funds for the Episcopal Food Pantry. Burt, a so

Music | Thursday, November 4,2004

sound patrol 11-4-04

Sweet vindication for well-read rockers

By René Spencer Saller

Augie March Strange Bird (spinART) Don the bard mantle at your peril, rockdudes. Before you break out the thesaurus, think of the sick-making excesses of Rush. Think of Lou Reed's recent Edgar

Music | Thursday, November 4,2004

music notes 11-4-04

By Tom Irwin

• If you wanted to pick a pair of choirs, you couldn't do any better than the Vienna Boys Choir and the African Children's Choir. Now give them back-to-back shows in central Illinois and go loo

Music | Thursday, October 28,2004

sound patrol 10-28-04

Asthmatic robot monkeys can’t solve this riddle

By René Spencer Saller

Björk may be the most unpopular pop star alive. Sure, she had a gigantic hit single in her native Iceland when she was 11 years old, and she's sold millions of records over the subsequent decades.

Music | Thursday, October 28,2004

music notes 10-28-04

By Tom Irwin

• Lovers of bluegrass music should be clogging in their bibs right now, excited as they can be about shows headed for Mr. Lincoln's hometown. On Nov. 12, Drew Emmitt of alt-bluegrass band Leftov

Music | Thursday, October 21,2004

sound patrol 10-21-04

Can’t stand by as the world burns

By René Spencer Saller

Tom WaitsReal Gone (Anti) At 54, Tom Waits is weirder than he's ever been, which is quite an accomplishment when you consider that he's been weird -- deeply, uniquely, unrepentantly weird --

Music | Thursday, October 21,2004

music notes 10-21-04

By Tom Irwin

• Anybody remember the Brown Bag Blues Boy, Tim McKean? They say he came from Illiopolis, hung out in Springfield, then relocated to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. While in the capital city, Mc

Music | Thursday, October 14,2004

sound patrol 10-14-04

Delivery Man delivers several firsts

By René Spencer Saller

Elvis Costello and the Imposters The Delivery Man (Lost Highway) On the title track of his latest album, Elvis Costello sings, "I want to be your delivery man." True to form, he's layered the l

Music | Thursday, October 14,2004

music notes 10-14-04

By Tom Irwin

• Tony Bennett is bringing his large intestine, his small intestine, his liver, and all of his other organs -- except his heart, which remains in San Francisco -- to the fabulous Fox Theatre in

Music | Thursday, October 7,2004

sound patrol 10-7-04

The world of men

By René Spencer Saller

Sally Timms In the World of Him (Touch and Go) Sick unto death of so-called security moms and their effect on the upcoming election? Are women the new white men? The latest solo CD by Mekons singe