Articles filed under Music
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Glamorama pulls off style with a twangAug 24, 2007 11:00 pm - Just one year after Macy's took over Chicago's beloved Marshall Field's, the retail chain asserted it might have the Windy City in its signature red star-studded shoppin...
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Naked lads by candlelightAug 24, 2007 11:00 pm - David Zak likes to defy convention. He put a bunch of naked guys onstage singing songs in the show "Barenaked Lads" at Bailiwick Theater in Chicago. And when the power w...
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Sparks hopes to live up to 'Idol' title with albumAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Given the multiplatinum, Grammy-winning successes of fellow "American Idol" winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks is feeling pressure to...
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A little browsing musicAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Two full days of live entertainment are expected to jazz up the 38th Annual Glen Ellyn Festival of the Arts. Saturday is the Eclectic Picnic Music Experience, which feat...
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LPs are hip again -- with youthsAug 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Maybe the older generation got something right, after all. More young music buffs have turned their backs on the MP3 revolution to embrace the vinyl LP, a format that th...
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'What If' a double winnerAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - A Geneva woman took home top honors at the first Art In Your Ear songwriting contest Saturday. Beatrice Eveland was the grand-prize winner for her song "What If." The so...
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He was the keeper of a new jazz beatAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from...
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Weird Al: the prince of parodyAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Weird Al Yankovic's career can be divided into two distinct periods. Before "Eat It," and after "Eat It." That 1984 parody of Michael Jackson's hugely popular hit single...
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The Ides of March to play at benefitAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - If you like guitars, country music or both, plan on attending the Parkinson's disease benefit "Concert for a Cure" Friday at Mill Creek in Geneva. "As part of the evenin...
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No longer scary, Marilyn Manson falls on hard timesAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Reality check time: Marilyn Manson is as threatening to America's children as the Son of Svengoolie. Feel better? With entertainment of the "Hostel" and "Saw" variety be...