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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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 […]
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sound patrol 1-20-05
Styrofoam Nothing’s Lost (Morr Music) Guitars and computers have been cohabitating peacefully and profitably for years now. First there was New Order, then there was Radiohead, then there were a whole slew of Volkswagen ads: Like peanut butter and chocolate, Les Pauls and laptops are two great tastes that taste great together. If you’re looking […]
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music notes 1-13-05
• It’s one more chance for the Last Chance Blues Band, as the popular local group winds up the music box again. New members Rick Hardin, Larry Harness, and Lincoln Eades join original members, Peter “Doc” Glatz, Ed Selinger, Gary Halford, Sherman Elliott, and Bob Kirk to reinvent to the former Illinois Times’ Best of […]
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sound patrol 1-13-05
Richard BucknerDents and Shells (Merge) A former acquaintance of mine — pretty, intelligent, seemingly sane, and legally married — used to be obsessed with Richard Buckner. She claimed that they were in a serious secret relationship, that he’d already immortalized her in a well-known song lyric. Every time he passed through town, which was often […]
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sound patrol 1-6-05
Beans Shock City Maverick (Warp) Two years after the demise of his trio Antipop Consortium, hip-hop iconoclast Beans is keeping busy. In 2003, the New York-based MC and producer released his first solo album, Tomorrow Right Now, and an EP, Now, Soon, Someday. In late 2004, after attention-getting stints touring with such underground-rock hotshots as […]
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music notes 1-6-05
• Prepare to rock as the band Low as I releases Shot Heard Around the World on Friday, Jan. 7. The band formerly known as Mindfold will be selling and signing the new CDs after an acoustic show at Samuel Music (3730 Wabash Ave.). The celebration continues around 10 p.m. the same night at Viele’s […]
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sound patrol 12-30-04
Bettye Swann Bettye Swann Honest Jon’s/Astralwerks You’ve probably never heard of Bettye Swann, which is sad for many reasons; on the bright side, though, it means you’re in for a treat. Thanks to the UK label Honest Jon’s, which specializes in resurrecting neglected treasures from soul’s golden age, 22 revelatory tracks from Swann’s too-brief career […]
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music notes 12-30-04
n On New Year’s Eve, Café Kanichi-Wa (1117 S. Grand Ave. E) presents, exclusively for your entertainment pleasure, a wild and ferocious battle of the bands pitting Springfield Shaky against Perfunctory This Band for a fight to the finish from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Audience members are asked to drink to their chosen point of inebriation […]
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music notes 12-23-04
• 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 […]
