Music
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Kaneland arts festival celebrates creativityApr 17, 2013 1:50 pm - Kaneland Community Fine Arts Festival exposes visitors music, artwork and dance
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Lee DeWyze boasts new album, new label and a return to Viper AlleyApr 17, 2013 11:00 am - Buoyed by a new single, a new label and a new album due out later this summer, Lee DeWyze can't help but hum with positivity. The Mount Prospect native and Season 9 “Ame...
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Schaumburg High’s ambitious ‘Joseph’ opens April 18Apr 17, 2013 10:58 am - Schaumburg High School presents “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” this weekend for the first time in the school’s history. In this retelling of the Biblical s...
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Steve Earle's album finds reason for optimismApr 17, 2013 6:00 am - Steve Earle, “The Low Highway” (New West Records) On “The Low Highway,” Steve Earle surveys the landscape, sings about a world of hurt and still musters optimism. E...
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Iron & Wine’s latest another step forwardApr 17, 2013 6:00 am - Iron & Wine, “Ghost on Ghost” (Nonesuch) Sam Beam, the South Carolina-born musician who releases music as Iron & Wine, first made his mark with sparsely arranged, mostly...
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Music notes: '90s faves at Durty Nellie'sApr 17, 2013 6:00 am - Back in time Remember the '90s — flannel shirts? PDAs? “Beverly Hills 90210”? You can take a trip back to that decade this weekend at Durty Nellie's, which will hos...
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Album No. 13 unlucky for Flaming LipsApr 16, 2013 12:00 pm - The Flaming Lips, “The Terror” (Warner Bros.) Expectations for a new Flaming Lips record are soaring high, mostly based on the fact the band always delivers brilli...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs shine on 4th albumApr 16, 2013 12:00 pm - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Mosquito” (Interscope Records) From the opening seconds of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' fourth album, you'll wonder how you have lived without the dulcet ...
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Band of Horses frontman, from homeless to tourApr 16, 2013 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A few weeks before taking off on Band of Horses' current tour, frontman Ben Bridwell decided to make a pilgrimage of sorts to his old haunt Seattle to...
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Inmates, orchestra members perform behind barsApr 15, 2013 7:39 am - Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday — not inside an august concert hall — but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await trial on charges rangin...