Don’t forget, here’s your chance to see some of the area’s finest hard rock bands plus a national touring group at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, at Club 217 (3075 Normandy Rd., 529-0196). Bobaflex, just off tour with Sevendust, headlines with we’re-not-worthy (yes, you are!) Funky Circuse Fleas of Beardstown, Honest Pod of Decatur, […]
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sound patrol 2-24-05
Super Furry AnimalsSongbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 (XL) Let’s give it up for Wales. As if Dylan Thomas, Bertrand Russell, and John Cale weren’t enough, the vowel-challenged British principality has seen fit to favor us with the Super Furry Animals, a maverick rock quintet that’s been making brilliantly silly, unexpectedly moving records since 1995. Although […]
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now playing 2-24-05
Imagine, if you will, a cozy coffeehouse atmosphere: wooden tables and chairs, New Age knickknacks all around. Breathe in the lingering fragrance of incense mixed with the aroma of pastries and coffee. On a corner stage, tucked between a window and a wall, a singer strums a guitar and passionately pours out the accumulated thoughts […]
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music notes 2-24-05
Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors are back in town at the Illinois Central Blues Club Blue Monday Jam at the Alamo (115 N. 5th St., 523-1455). The San Francisco area band is a knockout and Hummel is one of the best harmonica players you’ll ever hear live. Why not bite the bullet and pay […]
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sound patrol 2-17-05
Bettie ServeertAttagirl (Minty Fresh) Indie rock, like most cultural enterprises, is not a meritocracy. Consider Bettie Serveert, the Amsterdam-based outfit fronted by Canadian expat Carol van Dyk. Thirteen years ago, the group ruled the college-radio playlists enchanted critics with debut full-length Palomine, and toured with all the major dudes of the day. Thanks in large […]
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music notes 2-17-05
An explosion of Springfield songwriters is set to go off at Mojo’s (225 E. Monroe St.) around 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18. Included in Reirer “the Proprietor” Deloney’s big blast of acoustic guitar wielding lyricists are Micah Walk, Joe Frew, Josh Reilly, Matt Meinhert, Sarah Schnieder, Dave Littrell, and Tom Irwin. The band Jazz Orgy […]
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now playing 2-17-05
Doc Hollow’s Acoustic Revue, a collection of area pickers and grinners organized by Tom Beverly and Mark LeVault, is a once-in-awhile, if not a once-in-a-lifetime, music smorgasbord. The entertainment spectacle is like an old-time variety show with performers playing three or four songs each before the next act takes over. Beverly emcees the event, putting […]
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now playing 2-10-05
It’s not every day a Grammy-winning artist comes to Springfield. In fact, it’s not even every year. Dave Alvin won the award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 2000 for Public Domain, a collection of obscure folk songs. He began his musical adventures in early childhood, listening to old 78s and 45s with his brother, […]
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sound patrol 2-10-05
John LegendGet Lifted Getting Out Our Dreams/Sony As a producer, rapper, and talent scout, Kanye West effected a kind of hip-hop hegemony in 2004, gobbling up all the industry awards and A-list collaborators, cranking out radio hits like the next Neptunes, and generally imposing his will on a public that was all too ready to […]
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music notes 2-10-05
Hop on over to the Forty-Niner Bye-Bye (518 Bruns Lane, 217-787-4937) on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., as the lovely and talented Juanita celebrates her birthday with the Repeat Offenders. Oh yeah, it’s also Abe Somebody’s birthday, but being the teetotaler he was and knowing how Juanita is, you are practically […]
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now playing 2-3-05
“Write because you have to, because you have no other alternative. Otherwise, it’s just absurd ego-masturbation and a slap in the face to sweet mother dignity.” Ñ Otep Well, let’s start with that and see where it goes. It’s a quote from a poet named Otep (scramble those letters, boys) who also happens to front a […]
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sound patrol 2-3-05
Marianne Faithfull has led a larger-than-life life, neatly divisible into iconic phases: aristocratic ingenue, folk/pop princess, Stones consort, street junkie, comeback queen. In the beginning she sang like a convent girl, a gorgeous teen with a gorgeous soprano, as sharp and bright as an icicle. In the famous words of Stones impresario Andrew Loog Oldham, […]
