• 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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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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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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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 […]
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music notes 11-25-04
n Greg Fundis and company, known to the rest of the world as 56 Hope Road, make another Springfield appearance on Friday at Jazz Central Station, atop the mighty Hilton. The Chicago-based group has been stopping in town every few months while pursuing an aggressive grassroots-booked touring schedule. After a crisscrossing of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, […]
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music notes 11-18-04
• 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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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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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 […]
