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Track of the Day: ‘Mambo No. 5’ by Lou Bega

By BEN BURR | April 11, 2008

This infectiously catchy little number sprinted through many a high school students' radio when it hit the airwaves in 1999. Nobody seemed to care that the chorus incoherently rambled on about random women and their ambiguous relationships with the singer...

Flick Pick

By JEN HANCE | April 10, 2008

Flick Pick: "Sleuth" (2007)

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law

Synopsis: In a heart-stopping battle of wits, an aging writer faces off with an actor who's won his wife's affections.

Strait keeps it straight on new album

By LINDSEY KASTNING | April 10, 2008

"Troubadour" - George Strait Rating: 9 / 10 Calling all true country music fans: Are you looking for someone who consistently stays loyal to true southern sound? Then George Strait is the man for you. On his new album, "Troubadour," Strait keeps things...

Umphrey’s rocks Egyptian for Feb. 14 fund

By CHRIS KRAPEK | April 10, 2008

Umphrey's McGee, Chicago's favorite eclectic jam band, returned to DeKalb after a four-year absence, uniting the full capacity crowd at The Egyptian Theatre Tuesday night. Hemp necklaces and knotty dreadlocks overwhelmed the theater as college students,...

TV Talk: NBC

By JEN HANCE | April 10, 2008

With the writer's strike finally over, NBC is airing new episodes of five of their hit shows tonight. This will hopefully give viewers their fix of TV for the week. Here is a brief preview of what to look forward to this evening: 7 p.m. - "My Name Is...

Nine Inch Nails falls short on long album

By CHRIS KRAPEK | April 10, 2008

"Ghosts I-IV" - Nine Inch Nails Rating: 4 / 10 None of the music on Nine Inch Nail's latest endeavor is ground-breaking; anyone with a copy of Pro Tools and an Aphex Twin album could have produced the same results. "Ghosts I-IV" is 36 tracks of instrumental...

NIU Chamber Choir performs, anticipates national convention concert

By BEN BURR | April 9, 2008

NIU's Chamber Choir will be one of eight choirs performing at this year's National Association for Music Education (MENC) convention Saturday. The 61st biennial convention, in Milwaukee, will include educational workshops and keynote speakers catering...

Text vs. Tinseltown: ‘I Am Legend:’ book surpasses three movie versions

By TONY MARTIN | April 9, 2008

The Book "I Am Legend" - Richard Matheson (1954) In one of the best post-apocalyptic novels ever, Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a bacteria-spread disease, fights his own battle against both vampires and his crushing loneliness. Neville's inner...

Track of the Day: ‘Lovely Day’ by Donovan Frankenreiter

By JEN HANCE | April 9, 2008

The past weekend, DeKalb finally saw a hint of the spring we have been anxiously waiting for. As temperatures rise and flowers start to bloom, put on the song, "Lovely Day" by Donovan Frankenreiter. It is one of those songs that just gets people in the...

Flick Pick: ‘Planet B-Boy’

By PATRICK BATTLE | April 9, 2008

"Planet B-Boy" (2007) Director: Benson Lee Synopsis: A truly moving and colorful documentary about five B-Boy crews competing at an international break dancing competition in Germany. The physical feats are simply mind-blowing and the emotional substance...

Track of the Day: ‘Look What They’ve Done to My Song’ by Melanie

By KEITH CAMERON | April 8, 2008

Before Billy Joel wrote "The Entertainer," before Roger Waters sat on "The Wall," Melanie wrote the song about the song. "Look What They've Done to My Song," is the theme for the down-trodden and compromised. Sometimes "the only thing" you can "do half...

NIU New Music Ensemble to perform Steve Reich piece

By ANDY MITCHELL | April 8, 2008

NIU's New Music Ensemble will perform Steve Reich's piece, "Music for 18 Musicians" at 8 p.m. today in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. "If people already know the piece, then they know why they need to come," said Greg Beyer,...

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