• Just get out of the way there, Junior. Blues Power is all fired up, with four of central Illinois’ finest muzeekans goosing the throttle, chomping at the bit, and turning up the heat. Frank Herrin, Jerry Turley, Blair Fernandez, and Bad Bill Robinson are squeezing the juice from the electric blues at 8:30 p.m. […]
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sound patrol 11-18-04
Carla Bruni QuelquÕun mÕa dit (Na•ve/V2) Don’t hate Carla Bruni because she’s beautiful. If you’re going to hate her, there are plenty of other, better reasons. The 36-year-old Italian-born, French-bred former supermodel has dated Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, and Eric Clapton. Her father is a wealthy industrialist (and respected avant-garde composer); her sister is the […]
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now playing 11-18-04
As many in the partying world understand, Thanksgiving no longer is just about turkey and dressing, visiting family, and giving thanks for this best of all possible worlds. No, for many of us, the holiday is all about the night before Thanksgiving and the wonderful opportunity bestowed upon us by the powers that be to […]
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music notes 11-11-04
• Here’s a chance to watch someone sing for someone else’s supper: Gary Burt, the Prairie Crooner, romps through the Sinatra catalog to help raise funds for the Episcopal Food Pantry. Burt, a southern Illinois native, began to take crooning seriously after his retirement. Now he has a Nashville-recorded CD and a film documentary about […]
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now playing 11-11-04
Is it better to burn out than to fade away? Neil Young said so in his 1979 ode to the rock & roll myth, “My, My Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue).” In keeping with the example laid down by the author of the Rust Never Sleeps concept, you burn out by keeping busy, being […]
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sound patrol 11-11-04
Various Artists The Late Great Daniel Johnston Discovered Covered (Gammon) History will prove you poor enlightened blue-staters right someday, but that’s cold comfort now, when Christian nutjobs and reckless neocons have hijacked your country. Instead of flouncing off to Canada, heed the wisdom of Daniel Johnston: “Do yourself a favor, become your own savior/Don’t let […]
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now playing 11-4-04
Making plans for a night on the town this weekend? How about checking out a new hip-hop group “borrowing” music from someone else’s record and complaining about paying for artistic property? Then we can sit and wonder if it’s the death of the genre. Don’t worry, that parasite of pop was never really alive. No, […]
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sound patrol 11-4-04
Augie March Strange Bird (spinART) Don the bard mantle at your peril, rockdudes. Before you break out the thesaurus, think of the sick-making excesses of Rush. Think of Lou Reed’s recent Edgar Allan Poe travesty. Think of Rick Whatshisname’s excruciatingly stupid line about how he needs some chick “like Leda needs her swan” (that swan […]
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music notes 11-4-04
• If you wanted to pick a pair of choirs, you couldn’t do any better than the Vienna Boys Choir and the African Children’s Choir. Now give them back-to-back shows in central Illinois and go look for a blue moon. The Europeans sing in harmony starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Illinois College’s […]
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sound patrol 10-28-04
Björk may be the most unpopular pop star alive. Sure, she had a gigantic hit single in her native Iceland when she was 11 years old, and she’s sold millions of records over the subsequent decades. She earned critical praise and several award nominations for her film debut in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the […]
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music notes 10-28-04
• Lovers of bluegrass music should be clogging in their bibs right now, excited as they can be about shows headed for Mr. Lincoln’s hometown. On Nov. 12, Drew Emmitt of alt-bluegrass band Leftover Salmon (now on hiatus) picks his way to the Hoogland Center for the Arts (217-523-2787). The Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Music […]
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now playing 10-28-04
What’s so scary about Halloween? Let’s dig a little deeper in the grave and find out, shall we? Halloween is actually All Hallows Eve, the night before All Hallows (or Saints) Day, so it’s like turning the night before Thanksgiving into a special celebration (which, by the way, is now the biggest bar night of […]
