The Timmys go crazy at the Downhome Music, Beer & Art Festival on Saturday night, 9 p.m., on the Washington Street stage. PHOTO BY SETH ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY This weekend brings us festivals galore, bands all over town and a happening ALS benefit. Just around the calendar corner comes the Illinois State Fair and all the […]
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Spectacular spookadelic
Live music lovers of all ages will not want to miss Springfield’s biggest Halloween party this Friday, Oct. 31, at Donnie’s Homespun. The five-and-a-half-hour festival kicks off at 7:30 p.m. with your host, one-man-band extraordinaire, Evan Mitchell’s Ukulele Party. Attendees will enjoy live music from local legends NIL8 plus punk rock outfits The Timmys, King […]
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Coming to rock Springfield for the first time, brothers Bryan and Matt Basler make a “power-duo” unlike any other. Voted the best rock band in St. Louis for 2013 by readers of the Riverfront Times, the awesome twosome has opened for the likes of Wesley Willis, The Detroit Cobras and Earl Greyhound. They’ve released several […]
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This “Best of” business
The Blue Gs captured our Best of Springfield award for Americana/Folk group for 2013. Long before I wrote for Illinois Times, for a couple of years I was up very early every Thursday to deliver thousands of freshly pressed papers to make an extra buck or two. The Best of Springfield delivery days always demonstrated […]
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Halloween happenings
NIL8 headlines at the horrifying Hobgoblinspookadelic show at Black Sheep Cafe on Saturday night with Soap Scum, Looming, Execution Techniques and Orange Soda. Silly me, I was thinking of writing my column on Halloween stuff next week so it would come out on the day proper, but, as I should have remembered, all the goings […]
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Epsom
What’s an Epsom? Dare we ask this Springfield-based experimental and adventurous trio consisting of Scott Faingold (vocalizations, lyrics), Steven Sgro (noises, guitars) and Tim Harte (drums, drums, drums)? The band began in May of 2012 when the former drummer of NIL8 and local roustabout, Gary “Walnuts” Swaggerty communicated to Faingold these fateful words: “We need […]
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Downhome, BassBerg and UgStock
After sweltering and suffering through one of the hottest summers ever recorded a mere year ago, the lovely mountain-like weather of this past week seems like a dream world. And just right for a downtown music festival, wouldn’t you agree? On track for year number three to be the biggest and the best ever, the […]
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Pharmacy Member Artist: Jeff Williams
This is the third in a series of posts leading up to tomorrow’s (March 9) group exhibit of work by members of local art collective The Pharmacy. Last August, I had the privilege of interviewing post-punk musician, artist, bicyclist, Springfield icon and Pharmacy member Jeff Williams for an Illinois Times cover story, which you can […]
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Halloween happenings
With the holiday landing on Saturday this year, Halloween parties at the bars abound, with private parties happening too. Even public parties at private facilities are shaking, like the scary Sangamo Surf Club out on lonely Lake Springfield hosting the revolting Roxschool. I hardly know where to start to cover them all, but since we […]
