Band Spotlight

Together since November of 2009, this good-rocking quintet is manned by familiar faces Brian Reilly (guitar and vocals), John Reilly (vocals), Mike Taft (lead guitar), Charlie Barnes (bass), Pat Miller (drums) and Rory Davis (assorted instruments). The group pedigree includes the likes of Mugshot, the Damwell Betters, Thunderbeast, From the Attic, Reel Channel Cats, Lazer […]

Ask anyone who’s seen Joe Frew perform and no longer will you wonder why this innate entertainer plays several nights a week around town. With a stable of good musicians backing him in various configurations and in varied situations, Frew puts on a show that involves bringing the audience into the performance as few area […]

What started in the fall of 2006 while Eric Rogers “was busy neglecting his pre-med studies in favor of writing music on his four-track recorder” has now become a full scale original music project with live performances and an upcoming album. Eric covers the synthesizers, sequencers, bass guitar and vocals while brother Alexis Rogers (currently […]

Best friends since 2003, young producer/musicians Matt Madonna and Ryan Anderson come from the Reno / Tahoe area. After years of producing sounds, the duo got serious about making music together in April of 2010 and collaborated to create Love and Light. Intent on the “uplifting of people across the world through melodic synth lines, […]

The Aspect, conceived as a fluctuating group of musicians chosen for a purposeful project, has concentrated on those legendary lads from Liverpool, The Beatles, for the last few performances. With Jeff Helton (guitar, vocals), Brian Curtis (keyboards, vocals), Bill McKenzie (bass, vocals), Bob Wagner (drums) and Lori McKenzie (vocals, percussion), plus Nat Radwine (percussion) filling […]

Built around the exciting and refreshing concept of performing original songs as a form of personal expression through group participation, a day and a wake up clearly contain a vision of what a progressive band should be. The rocking quintet not only focuses on original music, they also possess a rather original configuration of band […]

The Legendary Drifters, a quality representation of the Drifters, one of the most dynamic and influential singing groups in rock ’n’ roll history, slide into town again after a superb performance last October. Sadly, all the founding members of the four-time Grammy-winning Drifters have passed on to sing classics such as, Under the Board Walk, […]

With a set list filled with songs that your average rocker already knows and loves, The Backliners easily achieve the self-proclaimed aspiration of being “all about having a good time” and “getting the crowd out on the dance floor.” A sample set list includes classics like Steppenwolf’s Born to be Wild, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of […]

Still Springfield’s Celtic house band by virtue of the number of performances surrounding the St. Patrick’s Day ruckus, in the past year The Emerald Underground weathered another transformation in its evolution as the area purveyor of Celtic-fusion music. Longtime musician Jack White (vocals, keyboards, guitar), the last surviving member from Stone Ring Circle, the predecessor […]

Formed in March of 2005 when former Leftover Salmon fellow Vince Herman (vocals, guitar, mandolin) joined with Chad Staehly (vocals, keyboards) to make an offhand, all-star group for a Rainforest Action Group benefit performance in Boulder, Colo., the show went so well Great American Taxi drove on.  Over the years band personnel solidified into Jim […]

Long a staple on the Springfield music scene, Frank Trompeter continues his marvelous musical march accompanied by a mass of musicians and a bevy of bands. The configuration of the current combo features Trompeter (saxophones, vocals, percussion, sax synthesizer), Chris Miller (piano, organ), Chris Warren (bass), Dion Doss (drums) and A.J. Good (trumpet, flugelhorn). The […]

They hail from the Springfield area, they’ve been around for ages and stake the claim of being “just the best damn unknown rock-n-roll band in the land.” These last-name-lacking bandmates Mike, (bass, vocals), Mark (guitars, keys, vocals), Wes (lead and slide guitars, vocals) and Jeff (percussion, vocals) are a fun-loving, music-making, take-no-prisoners bunch. According to […]