Square of the Roots celebrates the release of Common Heritage, Sat., June 28, 9 p.m. at the Tin Can Pub with special guests, Johnny and the Two Gs. As we wrap up the last weekend in June 2104 (just so you know how fast we’re spinning), the bands are back and the bars (and other […]
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Festival and fair fun
The Soil and the Sun, a nationally known indie-rock band from Grand Rapids. Mich., headlines the 20-band The Horse Show festival near Pawnee on Saturday. Man oh man, the festivals are overflowing, the fair is happening and the warm season is here in all its music glory. Here we go with fun times in the […]
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May into June music
Hospital Job plays punk at Skank Skates on Friday, May 30. PHOTO BY TISH GOFF As we wrap up the end of May music scene, things are hopping and happening all over the place. With June on the rise we’ve got the SOHO Music Fest downtown on June 6 and 7, The Romantics at the […]
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Making mid-May music
The Funky Butt Brass Band blows in from St. Louis for a show at The Creek in Chatham on Saturday night. As foretold and promised in recent accounts here in this column, May is heating up musically almost as much as the weather did last week. Even though the current outside temps seem to indicate […]
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More music in May
Diana Chittester rolls in from Ohio to play the Walnut Street Winery on Friday, May 9, 8 to 11 p.m. Maybe it’s just me, but May seems to be chock-full of more music than you can shake a stick at. Hopefully with the nice weather and all, you’ve picked up all the sticks in your […]
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No maybe for May music
James Armstrong and band plays Casey’s Pub on Thursday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Wow, what a month of May music coming up. Yessiree, there’s no maybe about it; we are in for a blast of interesting and exciting music moments in the next several weeks. That then leads right into the summer season, including […]
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April ending acts
Pimpin Henry plays Crowe Fest 14 at Crow’s Mill Pub on Sat., April 26. A sure sign of the upcoming warmer season is the opening of outdoor venues. Curve Inn, consistently chosen by Illinois Times readers as the best beer garden in town, manages to keep the music going all year, but in the warmer […]
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Don’t skip national record store day
National Record Store Day is on April 19. It’s that time of year again when we celebrate on an international level a great holiday of profound importance to the world. Well, yes, there’s Passover and Easter, too, but I was referring to National Record Store Day, happening in 2014 on April 19. The other holidays, […]
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Here comes the sun and the shows
Scott Miller performs the Bedrock 66 Live! concert series, Fri., April 11 at Julia’s Lounge. If there was no other way to tell the turning of the seasons than by careful observation of the local music scene, one might become as knowledgeable as the ancients were in noticing and identifying how the changing weather patterns […]
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No fooling around this April
Famed jazz drummer Barrett Deems (born in Springfield on March 1, 1914 and died in 1998) was honored last Sunday at Sangamon Auditorium during a performance by the SFJazz Collective. Oh, how I wait for April Fools’ Day to fall on a Thursday again. But alas and alack, we have a few years left to […]
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Bedrock 66 Live! moves
Nikki Hill and the Pirate Crew perform rock ’n’ roll for the Bedrock 66 Live! concert, Saturday, March 29, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Some 14 years ago, at the birth of the new millennium (wow, that sounds exciting), Sean and Jamie Burns decided to start a music performance organization. After years of […]
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Springtime is a-coming
The Blue Gs and The Station perform at Donnie’s Homespun on Friday night at the Acoustic Power Outage show. Whether the weather acts like it or not, spring is officially here. At this point, even calling the season “spring,” however the weather, is a relief, if not an actual respite. Fortunately, there’s plenty of good […]
