• Capcitill Promotions invites you, the listening public, to a “Hoes Exposed” meet-and-greet at Two Olives and Pepper from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Dec. 28. What will you meet and greet at a such an event, you ask? Why, members of Springfield’s underground hip-hop scene, including such acts as ILL-Legitimate, Mohrer Les, Phat Head, Human Torch, […]
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sound patrol 12-23-04
Le TigreThis Island (Strummer/Universal) After two full-lengths and a couple of EPs on the now-defunct indie label Mr. Lady, Le Tigre has apparently tired of preaching to the choir. Predictably, many longtime fans of the New York-based electropunk trio are crying sell-out; aside from the fact that This Island is on Universal, the biggest, baddest […]
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music notes 12-16-04
• On Wednesday, Dec. 22, celebrate the Winter Solstice and the fifth anniversary of Trout Lily Café — Illinois Times readers’ “Best of Springfield” pick for coffee. Proprietor Kate Hawkes says the business (218 S. Sixth St., 391-0101) is open all day as usual, but will add evening hours from 5 until 8 p.m. for […]
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sound patrol 12-16-04
Rufus Wainwright Want Two (Geffen) What’s the term for a male diva? Divo? Heva? There may not be a word for Rufus Wainwright, but there should be. After all, he’s hardly the first boy singer to flaunt a great big voice, a flamboyant personality, and outrageous ambition; Scott Walker and Jeff Buckley, among others, proved […]
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now playing 12-16-04
Dierks Bentley moved to Nashville from Phoenix when he was 19 with songs in his pockets and not much else. Bentley began making the rounds, trying to find a key to unlock the mysteries of country music stardom. He dug into the soul of the city and the music that gives it life. He hung […]
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sound patrol 12-9-04
Eminem Encore (Aftermath/Interscope) If you’re curious about how Eminem’s art has evolved during the two-and-a-half years since his last full-length, The Eminem Show, the Encore cover andbooklet tell you everything you need to know. On a fancy stage, in front of a sumptuous velvet curtain, hip-hop’s Elvis takes a graceful bow while hiding a revolver […]
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now playing 12-9-04
You may not have heard of songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, but is it quite likely you’ve heard his songs. “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,” “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Going to be a Diamond Someday),” considered jewels in the […]
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music notes 12-9-04
• Prepare yourself, children, for the greatest Christmas event in the history of Western Civilization (well at least in our little world of booze, bars, and party-ons, dude). The annual Festivus Fuddarestuvus goes public this year by sponsoring the ever-exciting and always entertaining Los Straitjackets at 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, in the Grand Ballroom […]
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now playing 12-2-04
I have no sense of time, but it seems to me that it was only a year and half or so ago when Stolie, a publicist/whatever-needs-to-be-done person at Bloodshot Records in Chicago, e-mailed me about the Songwriter Circle acoustic get-together I host at the Underground City Tavern. Our little therapy group meets on Wednesday nights […]
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music notes 12-2-04
• Recycled Records, your civic leader in recorded-music sales and selection, now brings you live music during Downtown Springfield Inc.’s holiday walks. From 5-9 p.m. today, Thursday, Dec. 2, singer/songwriter Jill Manning and a funky bunch of friends host a Christmas hootenanny. On Dec. 11, elevator shoe unaffected grooves for customers from noon-5 p.m. Musical […]
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sound patrol 12-2-04
Chicks on Speed 99 Cents (Chicks on Speed Records) The shopping season is upon us, a grim reminder that ours is a fat, frivolous, reckless nation, drunk on debt and self-destruction. Still, even Adbusters subscribers and anarchists deserve Christmas presents, and it’s a safe bet that they won’t recoil in horror to find 99 Cents, […]
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sound patrol 11-25-04
Arcade Fire Funeral (Merge) Funeral, the first CD from Montreal’s the Arcade Fire, came out in September, and already it’s induced scores of worshipful music writers to churn out drool-slick paeans to the young sextet’s astonishing genius. Hard as it is to imagine that any band could live up to the hype, somehow this one […]
