Articles filed under Music
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Wheaton Band Festival creates a rainbow of soundsJul 12, 2011 1:00 am - If sound came in color, the music at this year’s Wheaton Band Festival would create a rainbow over Memorial Park. For the first time ever, five very different types of b...
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Little Feat jamming to Viper AlleyJul 11, 2011 12:00 am - In 1969, Frank Zappa encouraged guitarist Lowell George to leave the Mothers of Invention because he was too good to be a sideman and should start his own band. He did, ...
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Piano Man performs Thursday in Hoffman EstatesJul 11, 2011 12:00 am - The Hoffman Estates Arts Commission and the Hoffman Estates Park District are bringing Piano Man, a tribute artist to Elton John and Billy Joel, to perform 7 p.m. Thursd...
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Rocker accused of pharmacy robbery before showJul 10, 2011 11:00 pm - MANSFIELD, Mass. — The bass player for a rock band has been arrested and charged with robbing a Massachusetts pharmacy of prescription painkillers just hours before a sh...
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Temporary blindness leads to music careerJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - ROCKTON, Ill. — Anthony Billups sat blind and alone in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital room, a handful of CDs and a hardly-used guitar by his bedside. A former star pitcher...
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Burlap to Cashmere back from tragedyJul 08, 2011 2:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Guitarist John Philippidis woke up groggy from a monthlong coma in a hospital room full of people. He disregarded doctors urging him to stay in bed a...
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'Blues Brothers' tribute a lukewarm imitationJul 08, 2011 11:00 am - The 1980 hit film “The Blues Brothers” has unquestionably been one of the best and most enduring of all the movie spinoffs derived from NBC's “Saturday Night Live.” Eve...
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Five bands compete in South Barrington ‘Battle’Jul 08, 2011 1:00 am - The South Barrington Park District has announced the bands performing in the South Barrington Park District Battle of the Bands on Thursday, July 14. Bands participating...
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August to rock out at Batavia festivalJul 08, 2011 12:00 am - I grew up listening to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and local bands like the Cryan Shames, the Shadows of Knight and the Ides of March. While I was traveling the subu...
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Illness cancels Katy Perry's Rosemont showJul 08, 2011 12:00 am - One (in)famously locked lips with Madonna and Christina Aguilera on the MTV Video Music Awards. The other famously sang about kissing a girl. One is already a scandal-...