Voodoo Child Returns on Vinyl
Vinyl purists who dig the deep glossy black pizza can salivate in the news that MCA and the Hendrix Experience imprint have announced that in mid-September they’ll release an 8-LP box set of Jimi...
View ArticleCircle 7 Hits a New High – with a Little Help
The unexpected inclusion of Circle 7’s stage girls added some flare and sex appeal to the rank Clinton air and the crowd’s already metal-drained ears on the Fourth of July at Pig Stock V in Clinton,...
View ArticleBusy Times for Renaissance Bluesmen
Michael “Hawkeye” Herman studied theatre in college, and last week he won his first theatre award. There was just a long time in between. The 55-year-old Herman, a Quad Cities native, was a theatre and...
View ArticleThe Rev. Raymond Conducts Outdoor Services @ Ribco
I first heard these guys last summer at the Prairie Dog Blues Fest in Wisconsin. I wanted to see if they lived up to their name, and they do. I saw them again last year at the Rocking Rib Fest in...
View ArticleJamaica in Ya Maka
Ya Maka My Weekend has built quite a reputation since its inception in 1992 as the inaugural festival of Rock Island’s The District. Not only has it grown from a festival for residents of the Quad...
View ArticleVeruca Salt Won't Stand Still
Say this for Veruca Salt: Static it ain’t. The Chicago-based band, which makes good on a canceled show at RIBCO this Thursday at 10 p.m. with Ophur, is hardly the same outfit that made a minor splash...
View ArticleLove Us -- Please
The Nixons sound needy. I don’t want to make too much of it, but if you go to see them at the Pig Pen in Clinton on August 24, please give the guys a hug and tell ’em you love ’em. Listen to Scott...
View ArticleProject Features All-Star Roster of Singers
This Tuesday brings the new album, Hyacinths and Thistles, from The 6ths – the new project of Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. The Merge Records release is an unusual collaborative effort with...
View ArticleA Beautiful Late Summer Snow
There’s nothing fancy-pants about Kelly Pardekooper’s music. It’s as unassuming, familiar, comfortable, and rugged as denim. That’s not to say it’s pedestrian. Far from it. Pardekooper’s new album,...
View ArticleMorrison Comes Back From the Dead
Look for the upcoming Fatboy Slim album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, to include the track – and first single – “Sunset (Bird of Prey),” which is built upon a vocal sample of the Doors’...
View ArticleRhino Set to Release Rarities from The Doors
Rhino Records’ Handmade imprint has announced that on September 25 it will start distributing the first in a series of CDs of rare and previously unreleased music from The Doors. The recordings will...
View ArticleSymphony Offers Sultry Sounds
There are times when I’m out and about that I feel the Quad Cities are a great place to catch a symphony, listen to some jazz, or ponder art, and the most recent Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO)...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows Take the Stage at Peabody's
We’ve all heard confessional lyrics, but how does one go about writing soul-baring music? Listening to Shannon Wright’s striking Maps of Tactic (her second album on Chicago’s Quarterstick Records)...
View ArticleLive, Odd Rage on the Way
Rage Against the Machine is currently putting the final touches on a new live album, recorded recently at Los Angeles’ Grand Olympic Auditorium and dominated by an unusual selection of cover tracks...
View ArticleIntensity Rescues Progressive Rock From Itself
Progressive rock has never been cool. It has sometimes been respected, but those periods have been fleeting and hastily apologized for. The genre had many practitioners in the early 1970s, bands...
View ArticleStrange Rumors Swirl around Soundtrack
Film director Baz Luhmann has consistently turned heads and ears with his visually stunning work like his William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom, and monster hit “Everybody’s Free (To...
View ArticleSeason Offers Solid Entertainment, Few Surprises
With few surprising pieces, this year’s Quad City Symphony Orchestra season is best described as “solid.” By relying on repertoire mainstays like Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Brahms’ Fourth, and the...
View ArticleBookends Boost Symphony Performance
After a summer of anticipation, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) kicked off its 86th season Saturday, October 7, at the Adler Theater. The mammoth performance of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony,...
View ArticleLucky Few to Find Bizkit Ticket
The new Limp Bizkit album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, is due this coming Tuesday on the Flip/Interscope label and features a funky Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory-esque...
View ArticleBig Rock, and Its Less-than-Bright Kid Brother
You remember rock, don’t you? That arena sound that required no hair spray, no leather, no preening, no showy solos, no attitude? The only things you needed were guitar, drums, bass, and a singer....
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