Music
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.38 Special set to play at Northwest Fourth FestFeb 26, 2013 2:57 pm - The Hoffman Estates finance committee unanimously approved a $34,000 contract Monday for a performance by the band .38 Special at this year’s Northwest Fourth Fest. The...
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90 schools compete in Jazz in the Meadows festivalFeb 26, 2013 12:49 pm - Another year, another great day of music at Jazz in the Meadows. More than 90 schools competed in the daylong jazz festival held for 28 years at Rolling Meadows High Sch...
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ESO favorites return in ‘Time for Spring’Feb 25, 2013 1:37 pm - The Elgin Symphony Orchestra will present “Time for Spring” with guest artists Time for Three at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, at the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts...
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Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z tour to make Soldier Field stopFeb 22, 2013 9:59 am - NEW YORK — Put on your suit and tie: Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are hitting the road together. The performers announced Friday that they’ll embark on a 12-city stadium ...
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Rihanna to visit Barrington High School March 22Feb 22, 2013 9:46 am - Singer Rihanna will make her long anticipated appearance at Barrington High School on Friday, March 22 — a day the school normally would be closed for the first day of s...
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Mary Alouette blends gypsy jazz with electronicaFeb 22, 2013 5:00 am - As an opera student at McGill University in Montreal, Mary Alouette developed an interest that didn't necessarily correspond to her studies: electronic music. It took mo...
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Carrington's 'Money Jungle' a fresh takeFeb 22, 2013 5:00 am - Terri Lyne Carrington, “Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue” (Concord Jazz) Producer Terri Lyne Carrington follows up her Grammy-winning, all-female “The Mosaic Proje...
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Wayne Shorter Quartet offers daring improvisationsFeb 22, 2013 5:00 am - The Wayne Shorter Quartet, “Without a Net” (Blue Note) Saxophonist Wayne Shorter ranks among jazz's greatest composers, but when his quartet performs live — as on t...
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Mumford & Sons, Adele among winners at Brit AwardsFeb 21, 2013 6:12 am - LONDON — British music put on a brash, confident show at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, celebrating a resurgent industry whose bands and artists are topping charts around...
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Iceage prove worth on sophomore CDFeb 20, 2013 10:00 pm - Iceage, “You're Nothing” (Matador Records) The second album from the four Danish lads known as Iceage is an even more caustic slab of brooding punk than their blind...