Music
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Jingle Bell Jam back for second year at Elgin studioDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - Side Street Studio Arts hosted its second annual Jingle Bell Jam!, a day of music, featuring area bands and solo musicians in Elgin. The event, from 2 to 11 p.m. Saturda...
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D'Angelo is back, with deific mightDec 19, 2014 5:01 am - After a 14-year absence marked by cataclysmic falls from grace and various false-start comebacks, D'Angelo's new album, "Black Messiah," dropped out of the heavens Sunda...
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Music notes: Drive-By Trucker Hood plays solo show at SPACEDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - Solo Trucker Patterson Hood is one of the primary singer-guitarist-songwriters in the excellent neo-Southern-rock band Drive-By Truckers. He's also a solo artist whose l...
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5 things to do in the suburbs this weekendDec 19, 2014 12:00 am - Unless you've gone all Grinch on the holidays, you can still enjoy a number of seasonal shows this weekend designed to get you in the Christmas spirit. Options include a...
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Gov't Mule covers Pink Floyd on new live albumDec 18, 2014 5:01 am - Gov't Mule, "Dark Side of the Mule" (Evil Teen Records) When you're playing music for 20 years with the caveat that no two shows will ever be the same, you had bett...
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Sing along or just listen at upcoming holiday concertsDec 17, 2014 5:01 am - Sometimes the best way to get into the holiday spirit is with music. Whether you prefer the stirring sounds of a brass band, the warmth of a community singalong or the h...
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D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' plays to message of rising upDec 17, 2014 5:01 am - D'Angelo and The Vanguard, "Black Messiah" (RCA) The phrase "long-awaited album" gets tossed around quite a bit - slapped on sets delayed by a couple of years, or a...
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Free choir concert:Dec 17, 2014 12:01 am - Stevenson High School's choirs will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, in the Lincolnshire school's performing arts center. The school is at 2 Stevenson Drive. Admissi...
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Weekend picks: Let Cirque lead you into a 'Holidaze'Dec 16, 2014 6:30 am - Holiday circus Cirque Dreams gets into the spirit of the season with its winter season "Holidaze" starting Wednesday for a limited run at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N...
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Minaj's 'Pinkprint' delivers grown-up complexityDec 16, 2014 4:45 am - Nicki Minaj, "The Pinkprint" (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records) Maybe we knew - even in 2010 - when Nicki Minaj released her debut set, that beneath the fluo...