Known as one of Springfield’s finest presenters of modern radio rock, Broken Stone covers a range of groups, including contemporary bands like Breaking Benjamin, Velvet Revolver and Seether, along with classics from Dio and Mississippi Queen. In nearly four years of rocking the capital city and area towns at fairs, festivals, bars and clubs, the […]
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Guitar town news and blues
Just when you thought it was safe to stay at home, look at the long list of hopped-up happenings this week. Then next weekend everyone goes green for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities and the celebration of all things Celtic. It seems the wicked are not the only ones getting no rest. Long a source […]
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Deep Lunar Blue
With 36 shows in the can, including many at the main, local hot spot nightclubs, and an 11-song CD ready to shine, Deep Lunar Blue is rising like a full moon upon the lonesome prairie. Fronted by Randall Hall and Shane Quigley, a pair of songwriting, singing, guitar-slinging guys and with drummer JJ Moffat and […]
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February flurry of fun
For heaven’s sake, the shows just won’t stop in Springfield or perhaps we should say, they keep stopping by. From the looks of the upcoming weekend calendar as we pass on through February, it’s a veritable smorgasbord of live music activity. First off, I must deny the comments about offering pot to REO Speedwagon umpteen […]
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REO Speedwagon rolls home
“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 Cronin, 59, with an audible lump in his throat. “I know that probably seems hackneyed but its absolutely, 100 percent, true. The Beatles had the Cavern […]
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The Seething Coast
Formed in 2006, The Seething Coast draws its peculiar name from a lyric in a song by indie-rock legends The Mountain Goats. With Jason Perry on guitar and vocals matched with Jay Vanselow doing the same, the quartet fills out with Aaron Stallone on drums and Matt Natale, formerly of the Timmys, on bass as […]
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Fabulous February finds
Better lick your wounds from last week’s Mardi Gras spectacular and spruce up for another superb weekend of live music in the capital city. The nightlife is jampacked with more stuff than you could shake a stick at, if that’s your idea of having fun. Let’s start with our most recognized and praised live music […]
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Mardi Gras and all
Slowly but surely the whoop-it-up holiday known around the world as Carnival season has taken hold in Springfield. Just a few years ago some hardy souls around town were determined to make a local annual party of this centuries-old, global celebration leading up to Lent. Now we have a legally official, not-for-profit group known as […]
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Margaret Murphy with Chuck Webb
A world-class jazz vocalist and her equally celebrated bassist husband makes Valentine’s Day weekend a special event at Remy’s on Monroe. The Chicago-based couple entertains with a drummer and pianist filling out the band and your hosts at Remy’s promise hors d’oeuvres, champagne and strawberries plus roses for the ladies. Murphy, a Chicago native, lays […]
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Telegraph 3am
Here comes a new band featuring several familiar area musicians including Brian Reilly (guitar and vocals), John Reilly (vocals), Mike Taft (lead guitar), Charlie Barnes (bass), Pat Miller (drums), and Rory Davis (assorted instruments). The band member pedigree includes associations with the Damwell Betters, Mugshot, Thunderbeast, From the Attic, Reel Channel Cats, Lazer Dudes and […]
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Festive February fodder
Somehow during the global conference on holiday scheduling meeting many millenniums ago, someone must have felt sorry for shorting February in the number of days and made up for it by overloading on the holidays. My all-time favorite, Groundhog Day, kicks off the gala run that includes Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, […]
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Bottle Rockets get fired up
During the mid-90s The Bottle Rockets ruled the roost as a thought-provoking, hard rocking, Midwestern, alt-country band in the middle of a roots rock revolution centered in St. Louis. Later in the decade and the first years of the new century, things calmed down a bit for the whole genre and the band. After an […]
