The Bottle Rockets have a new bass player. And what’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the newest member of the critically acclaimed and fan-appreciated alt-country group from Festus, Mo., is Keith Voegele of Springfield. Mr. Voegele — or Stingray, as I like to call him — came our way from St. Louis in […]
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sound patrol 6-9-05
Being a feminist rock fan is a lot like being a gay Republican — theoretically possible but, in practice, often demeaning. If you insist on living out the oxymoron, be prepared to embrace contradiction, if not outright abuse. Rock & roll, after all, is rooted in the ritualistic celebration of male sexuality: Elvis’ pelvis; Chuck’s […]
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now playing 6-2-05
Rod Lingo is a fortysomething Carlinville native who’s been jamming in these parts for years, both as a solo act and with too many bands to count. Now, after all these years of making music, he’s out with his first CD, Lingo. It’s an eclectic mix of work, showing the range of influences on Lingo’s […]
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sound patrol 6-2-05
No singer/songwriter bums out more beautifully than Aimee Mann. Since her early days fronting ’Til Tuesday, she’s lanced every painful carbuncle on the dark side of romance while administering megadoses of pop narcotic. With each new batch of transcendent downers, she manages to become more and more herself, an unabashed classicist and classic depressive who […]
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sound patrol 5-26-05
For a band that hasn’t existed as long as the Dubya administration, Head of Femur has carved out quite a dominion. The founding members, vocalist/guitarist Matt Focht, keyboardist/drummer Ben Armstrong, and guitarist/bassist Mike Elsener — all Nebraskans who relocated to Chicago — formed the prog-pop outfit in late 2001, while their previous group, Pablo’s Triangle, […]
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music notes 5-26-05
It’s homecoming night for Kyle Westbrook on Friday, May 27, at Jazz Central Station (700 E. Adams St., 217-789-1530) when the Springfield native returns to town as the drummer for Chicago hip-hop band Small Change. Westbrook graduated from Lanphier in 1991 and after college moved to Chicago. During the three years he’s been part of […]
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now playing 5-26-05
di·vul·sion n. 1. The removal of a part by tearing. (The American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 2nd edition. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Co.) If you had a band and were looking to name it, would you choose “Divulsion”? If you said, “It depends on what kind of music we’re doing,” then go pick […]
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sound patrol 5-19-05
Few things in life are certain, but it’s safe to say that the Kronos Quartet will never put out a bad album. It’s equally likely that you’d never hear about it one way or the other, though, because you, poor, patronized reader/consumer, aren’t supposed to care about contemporary string quartets. Never mind that Kronos has […]
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now playing 5-19-05
Local music trio Lost and Found recently released a new CD, As You Sow. In a unique and wonderful approach to dealing with music business profits, the group will donate proceeds from CD sales to the local Habitat for Humanity. The band formed in 2002 to showcase songwriter and band leader Dennis Darling’s original works […]
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music notes 5-19-05
In Springfield, beer gardens are like the famed Midwest morel mushrooms: they’re hard to find, pop up in the spring, and become no good when it gets too hot outside. Drop by the Alamo (115 N. Fifth St., 523-1455) for a garden full of music every Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. beginning with the […]
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music 5-12-05
The last time Marita Brake played Springfield was in 1967, and the location was the Something Else Coffeehouse, located in an old brownstone on the northeast corner of Fourth and Capitol. That time was a golden age for a generation of Beat-ish poets who trekked cross-country between Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury. Bob Dylan and Joan […]
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sound patrol 5-12-05
Will Johnson is the indie-rock equivalent of Joyce Carol Oates, cranking out a seemingly endless supply of songs for his various musical personae: cerebral head-bangers for Centro-matic, rawboned alt-folk for his solo ventures, and delirious countrified pop for South San Gabriel, a band that comprises all four members of Centro-matic plus a rotating cast of […]
