Derek Winstanley’s sculpture entitled, “Prehistoric Dolphin with Modern Technology”, has been chosen as the featured image for the 2008 Boneyard Arts Festival. The panel of local arts professionals, Jenny Southlynn, Joan Stolz, Kim Curtis, and …
John Isberg likes to wear a couple of different hats. It’s just part of his style. After performing with The Blackouts The Living Blue for a couple of months, Isberg paired up with The Firebird …
i:scintilla decided to relinquish their status as a “local band” earlier this year when they moved to Chicago. Generally speaking, I’d be the first to tell an indie band that this move is a bad …
It’s not every week that an act from overseas decides to stop in town, and tomorrow night the Canopy Club has Brighton England’s indie-rock post-punk revivalists British Sea Power. From their great frantic spazztastic debut …
What exactly is “Northern Rock”? I am not quite sure, but I can state without question that I want to hear more of it if bands like Great Lakes Myth Society are leading the movement. …
I know exactly what’ll happen. I’ll sit down, play a few holiday songs, and then some drunk jerk will yell out, ”’Piano Man,’” and everybody will start clapping, and I’ll look like a real asshole …
George Hunter moved to “Catfish Haven” when he was four years old. He only lived in the rural trailer park for three or so years, but that was enough time for the place to leave …
Stephen Ucherek and Joe Prokop know a little something about perseverance. Now in their 10th year as bandmates in one of Champaign’s most beloved psych-rock acts of all time, The Living Blue, the quartet (with …
Telluride’s Mountainfilm on Tour, a touring short film festival, makes an appearance this evening at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre. Ten short films (mostly documentary shorts, with some animation and political satire mixed in) will be screened, …
Of all the fresh-faced rock and roll upstarts who call Champaign-Urbana home, there are only a handful who have experienced the evasive place called fame. It’s the place where hard work and serendipity meet. Lucky …
