Double A from Madison, WI Torch Tuesday at Bar None continues to expand tonight, presenting three artists from Madison WI. Check out video from DB Cooper, Double A and Michael Medall below and come out later on for the most consistent hip-hop party in town. The show starts at 9PM at Bar None, corner of […]
Scott Faingold
Scott Faingold is a journalist, educator and musician. He has been director of student media at University of Illinois Springfield, founding editor of Activator magazine, a staff reporter for Illinois Times and co-host of Old School Bleep, a music-centered podcast.
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From Buck to Beck: Dwight Yoakam at PCCC tonight
A country star playing the Prairie Capital Convention Center? STOP THE PRESSES! Sarcasm aside, Dwight Yoakam – who performs at the PCCC this very evening – isn’t anyone’s idea of a typical country star. A unique and versatile artist, Yoakam has spent decades crossing stylistic lines, drawing as deeply from the Bakersfield sound pioneered […]
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Music tonight: Gentle vs. Brutal
Springfield music fans bemoaning a lack of variety in local concert offerings can go ahead and bite their tongues on this particular evening as a former Bon Iver collaborator and a balls-out thrash metal show each prepare to take downtown stages. Field Report The Hoogland Center for the Arts, via Bedrock 66, is playing host […]
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Movies: Midnight Road Trip for Gore Snobs
Why simply trudge to the local multiplex like a good little horror movie consumer to see the slick new remake of camp gore classic Evil Dead when the original is being given a rare theatrical screening just up the road? Champaign’s ever-scrappy Art Theater Co-Op is doing its best to steal some of the new […]
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Requiem for a Punk Rocker
L-R: Dave Baker, Jeff Williams and Brian Tober, ca. 1980s (photo courtesy Bill Tober) Known to many as a devoted family man and passionate educator, Dave Baker was also renowned for his antic personality and love for all things punk. When he passed away suddenly last week from natural causes, the Springfield-area music scene lost […]
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Tonight at The Pharmacy! Open Format Open Mic!
Are you a singer? A stand-up comedian? A poet? A sumo wrestler? A yo-yo champion? Or do you just like to get up in front of a group of people and try to freak them out? Boy, oh boy, does The Pharmacy have a deal for you. The Pharmacy’s open mic night has a completely […]
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Champaign Hip-Hop artist 12K: Mixtape Release Party tonight!
12K Tonight, Champaign-based rapper / producer 12K will hold the release party for his new PSA mixtape as Torch Tuesday continues to diversify and bring in hip-hop artists from all around the region. Listen to his stuff here: Also appearing tonight will be Champaign’s Jay Moses, Woods G from Decatur, and Springfield’s well-loved NovelT. The show […]
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Spring Breakers: Great and Terrible
In The Wizard of Oz (1939), a young farm girl from Kansas wishes for excitement and gets more than she bargained for when a cyclone lands her in Oz, a bizarre alternate reality populated by odd, often hostile creatures. In Spring Breakers, currently playing in Springfield at AMC’s Parkway 8, four young college girls wish for […]
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Third Thursday Tonight: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Flyer by Mary Brennen It’s the third Thursday of the month, which can only mean it’s time for Third Thursday, Springfield’s most reliable art and music event, 6pm-9pm at Donnie’s Homespun. Here’s an excerpt from my 2012 Illinois Times year end art scene wrap-up, describing what you might expect: As indicated by their name, on the third […]
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Gus’s new gig
“At a certain point I realized I was a clone,” says Gus Gordon of his 22-year tenure as chief meteorologist at WICS-TV Channel 20. His tone is more amused than bemused, and entirely without rancor. “There was a middle-aged white guy like me at pretty much every local TV station in America. There are really […]
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Free live standup comedy TV taping! What’s not to like?
Local comedian Brandon Judd will be taping his television debut tomorrow for FOX-TV’s regional stand-up series One Mic Stand. It’s kind of a party atmosphere, says Judd. In addition to three comics each performing short sets, the show also features jazz from the Smoothtimes Band and effusive host Michael Pittman. As for what prospective audience […]
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New Video from Torch Tuesday
Over the past year or so, Torch Tuesday at Bar None has steadily transformed from a rap-oriented open mic night into a varied and exciting place for all elements of hip-hop culture — not just MCs and DJs but poets, visual artists, photographers, fashion designers, and more –to gather and find expression. There’s a lot […]
