Springfield residents have held several fundraisers for Hurricane Katrina victims, but we’ve also benefited from the diaspora of New Orleans residents, taking in several talented musicians Friend and fellow musician Jason Eklund, now living in Nashville, recently received news concerning a buddy, New Orleans blues guitarist Augie Jr. After eight days in the flooded city, […]
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Home sweet concert hall
Is it not the dream of every music lover to host a living-room concert? Imagine being able to book your favorite performers, sell seats to help cover costs, and watch the show from your own couch. Sound too good to be true? Well, in the case of Ann Bova and Joe Bohlen, the sounds are […]
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Weirdly endearing torture music
Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys Git (Ghostly/Shinkoyo) Stravinsky once opined that Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” is an “absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever,” but the problem with such predictions is that time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future. As soon as we invent a term to distinguish the art of […]
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Cold gets hot again
Cold started 2003 on a roll. After a five-year apprenticeship with fellow Florida nü-metalheads Limp Bizkit, the band was turning away from the chest-beating aggressiveness of that waning scene for a more radio-friendly (but no less angst-filled) approach. It worked: They scored a pair of hit singles (“Stupid Girl” and “Suffocate”) off the disc Year […]
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Doveman’s gentle hodgepodge
Most musicians hate to be categorized, rejecting any attempts to label, contextualize, or otherwise rape their divine muse. Because they are, like, totally unique, they tell anyone who is stupid or polite enough to ask what kind of music they play that it can’t be described. “You just have to listen to it, bro,” they […]
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On the Midnight Swinger shift
Ever wonder what it would be like to be a touring comedian, trying to crack people up, night after night, from Tuscaloosa to Tucumcari, Sioux Falls to Niagara Falls, Long Island to Long Beach? For several years David Scott, a.k.a. the Midnight Swinger, has been on the road making a living by making people laugh. […]
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Love, indispensable and inadequate
In “Exodus Damage,” one of 14 quietly harrowing tracks on his fifth and finest CD, John Vanderslice sings, “No one ever says a word about/So much that happens in the world.” If this is true, it’s not his fault: Among other subjects, Pixel Revolt addresses the youth of Joan Crawford, the escape of a pet […]
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The blues come around
The blues come in many styles and colors, fitting many different moods. Last weekend’s Old Capitol Blues & BBQ downtown music party was a good representation of the rowdy electric blues born in the bars of Chicago. If you liked that sound, look for more of the same this week. Joe Moss was weaned on […]
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Every track a money shot
Although no one can define it, most of us know pornography when we see it, and we do not approve. Never mind that we’re consuming it in record quantities; we still freak out at the sight of a wayward nipple. It’s strange that something as ubiquitous as porn has so few champions — and such […]
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Robert Lloyd says hello
According to the group’s Web site, St. Louis-based Field of Grey wants “to bring the rock back to radio and make people think about the world surrounding them with their thought-provoking lyrics.” Working toward those lofty goals, the band has been busting its collective butt, playing gigs all over the place and preparing for upcoming […]
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Rescued from obscurity
Flamin’ Groovies Shake Some Action (DBK Works) Was there ever a phrase more redolent of rock than “shake some action”? In the annals of horndog eloquence, it’s up there with “Who put the bomp in the bompalompalomp?” and “Tutti frutti oh rootie” — pure Dionysian nonsense, the urgent articulation of the inarticulate speech of the […]
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A life sentence, by choice
It’s hard to tell if James Intveld would rather be making movies or playing music until you realize it’s all the same to the California native. Getting a chance to be heard and be seen is all part of forging a life in the unpredictable entertainment world. “It’s been 25 years of struggling and I’m […]
