Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 29,2012

SOMA

What happens when you take a batch of well-seasoned local musicians and combine them into a brand new concoction? Go see for yourself as SOMA breaks into the Springfield scene with its first full-on p

Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 22,2012

Lady Carole & Her Knights

By Tom Irwin

On March 26, 2010, when Bruce Clark, proprietor of Bourbon Street, hosted Lady Carole & Her Knights, the official band began. But the seeds were sown years before when Carole sang and played keybo

Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 15,2012

Jason & the Haymakers

By Tom Irwin

Now a Nashville recording artist, Jason Bertrand originally came from a small, rural town in Illinois and attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. There he spent time working on a cover cou

Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 8,2012

The Rockin’ Johnny Band

By Tom Irwin

Originally from South Carolina, a young John Burgin went to the Windy City to study at the prestigious University of Chicago in the early 90s and ending up learning at the equally important reality sc

Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 1,2012

Guitar Town

By Tom Irwin

The first Guitar Town event held in 2008 featured 13 of central Illinois’ favorite guitar players playing, songs they liked for fellow guitarists. With a backline of Mark LeVault on bass and Bob

Band Spotlight | Thursday, February 23,2012

The Aspect: Beatle Band

By Tom Irwin

Originally conceived as a way to bring several styles of popular music under one umbrella, Bill McKenzie’s concept group, The Aspect, continues the tradition by again taking on the Beatles as su

Band Spotlight | Thursday, February 16,2012

Josh Catalano and The Dirty Thoughts

By Tom Irwin

How many bands can one guy have? For Josh Catalano, the answer may be in the infinite stars above. From the long gone days of Mugshot and currently of the Damwell Betters and Lazer Dudes, the prolific

Band Spotlight | Thursday, February 9,2012

Dog Of Panic

By Tom Irwin

In a Macomb dorm room circa 2008, a struggling college student dreamed of leaving the academic world behind to write and play music. Dog of Panic began when Dan Rohde wrote 15 songs in that lonely roo

Band Spotlight | Thursday, February 2,2012

Bleu Edmondson

By Tom Irwin

Here’s a music business story with a happy twist and one that continues an upward spiral. Rather than the usual tale of playing music from the cradle, Bleu Edmondson first picked up a guitar and

Band Spotlight | Thursday, January 26,2012

Mike McClure Band

By Tom Irwin

If you were from Oklahoma and if you were into hard-rocking, good country music like that of the Red Dirt scene, seeing Mike McClure’s name would send you boot-scootin’ for the ticket boot