The Hives - "The Black and White Album" Rating: 6 / 10 Label: Universal Background: After three albums of playing fast and loud garage rock, including the hit, "Hate to Say I Told You So," the Swedish quintet, led by the "Howlin'" Pelle Almqvist, expand...

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Who'll Stop the Rain?" Last Sunday I sat in my living room and sipped some coffee while watching "Meet the Press." Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was talking to Tim Russert, and that now fateful question of all political...

DeKALB |Pirates have landed ballet-style at the O'Connell Theatre. With sword fighting, belly dancing and a love story, the School of Theatre and Dance brings the 150-year-old production of "Le Corsaire" to NIU for the first time. Under the direction...

Title: "When the Legends Die" (1984) Author: Hal Borland Plot: Tom, of the Ute Indian tribe, is orphaned at a young age and left to fend for himself in the wilderness where he was raised. Importance: This is a depressing story that depicts losing one's...

DeKALB | The NIU Jazz Ensemble will present its fall concert free to the public Thursday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. The concert is at 8 p.m. Concert attendees expecting Jazz Ensemble director Ronald Carter's signature...

Dillinger Four's album "Versus God" is an album everyone should own. It came out on Hopeless Records in 2000 and has been changing people's minds about pop-punk ever since. In the time between this album and Dillinger Four's 1998 phenomenal "Midwestern...

With every variety of music comes the connoisseurs who consider their beloved genre superior. On the other end of the spectrum is the hater, who declares utter distaste for a particular genre of music. The behavior of the connoisseur can be easily understood....

chris krapek Staff Writer Fred Claus - 5/10 Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Spacey, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates Plot: Fred Claus (Vaughn) is a repo man who asks his brother Nicholas, or Santa Claus, (Giamatti) for a loan. To get the loan, Fred...

In 1972, epic songs such as "American Pie" by Don Mclean and "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos were topping the charts. It's no wonder that Warner Bros. didn't release an album by The Modern Lovers. They were almost the exact antithesis of the day's rock...

Dear Hillary Clinton, It's great you want to be president. I am very fond of our next commander in chief not being a rich, white man. However, there is one issue that might stop me from wanting you as our next president, and instead hold out for Oprah...

Rating: 2/10 Staring: Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols Plot: Christmas has arrived and businesswoman Angela Bridges (Nichols) is in a hurry to leave work and get home to her family. As she walks out to her car on level P2 of a parking garage, Angela's car...