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, […]
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music notes 2-3-05
¥ What’s this — Springfield is discovering Mardi Gras? Well, sort of. Bars along the Fifth Street Strip have banded loosely with the distributor of the world’s top-selling beer to give us “Pardi Gras” the night of Saturday, Feb. 5. That’s all the information you get. ¥ Remember that Oteil and the Peacemakers are in […]
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sound patrol 1-27-05
Various ArtistsSunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum) Few album concepts are as unappealing as a bunch of irony-fortified, eccentrically coifed white rockers “paying tribute” to a rural bluesman. No matter how well-intentioned, such endeavors usually come off as condescending. (“Hey, kids! You probably think all music sucked before the Pixies, but we’re […]
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now playing 1-27-05
As beer-based bands float in and out of bars and touring groups ride luxury buses into town, a group of local melody-makers ride a wave of their own excitement, unfettered by the trappings of your average music-business philosophy. Leading the Springfield pack of these nonchalant go-getters is the band Resident Genius. This group of indie […]
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music notes 1-27-05
Prepare yourself for the funkifying return of the funktastic, neofunkadelic Freekbass, playing 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Underground City Tavern (700 E. Adams St., 217-789-1530) in the Hilton Springfield. The band’s frontman, from whom Freekbass takes its name, is a protégé of the emperor of funk bass, Bootsy Collins, who manages and […]
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music notes 1-20-05
n If you’ve got the winter blues and you can’t beat ’em, here’s a chance at least to join them. The River City Blues Club of Peoria, Bloomington’s Blues Blowtorch Society, and our very own Illinois Central Blues Club have combined to present the Winter Blues Fest at the Opera House in Exposition Gardens near […]
