I'll take my weekend concert country-fried, please. Come 7:30 p.m. Saturday, country music star Darius Rucker will take the stage at the NIU Convocation Center, 1525 W. Lincoln Highway, with openers Thompson Square and Justin Moore. The former Hootie...
Florence + The Machine made waves last year with the success of "Dog Days Are Over" from their 2009 album Lungs. Fans and critics alike have been eagerly anticipating the band's follow-up effort. Will Florence Welch fall victim to the sophomore slump?...
Nudity. With a rush of the chilled DeKalb morning air, the skin on my face became tense and full of angst. Gone was the safety net of my perpetual 5 o’clock shadow, carefully and sporadically sanded down with a cheap electric razor. In its place was...
Hyper-literate folk darlings The Decemberists are closing out a banner year with a new EP, Long Live The King. The past eleven months have seen The Decemberists run a gamut of musical and personal triumph. Together, they released a Billboard Top 200 and...
Move over, Beethoven.The New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Greg Beyer, associate professor in the School of Music, will deliver the second annual New Music Festival, a 7 p.m. lecture and 8 p.m. concert, tonight and Wednesday in the Boutell Memorial...
You can't force weird. Metallica is living proof of this fact. When done correctly, "weird" can give society a shot in the arm and ignite a countercultural shift. But half-hearted attempts to keep a career interesting rarely stack up in the "all-time"...
It's been four years since the first movie of Twilight and all its mania, but the question that remains is: Has the Twilight phenomena settled down and has its peak years passed? The past three movies, Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, have surpassed one...
Friends, only three things scare me in this world, the first being sharks. A short-fin Mako can jump 20 feet in the air and has been clocked at 22 mph. Neither trait is OK when you consider the average human swims at a rate of 3.5 mph. To a shark, a surfer...
Happy Halloween, Huskies! Think this holiday deserves an awesome soundtrack to go with your awesome costume? So do I! It might be tempting to mourn the loss of trick-or-treating or feel slighted that All Hallow's Eve falls on a Monday. Turn that frown...
Turn on your television. Open a magazine. Look at the bottom of these pages. Advertisements are everywhere. They have become such an integral part of life that we see them without noticing. They play a huge role in commerce, and local businesses in Northern...
With Saturday's Halloween Extravaganza VII at the House Cafe quickly approaching, Matt Frank and Steve Marek of DeKalb's Loose Lips Sink Ships are prepping to play as infamous Toronto duo Death From Above 1979. The Northern Star spoke with Frank about...
There's something uniting about punk rock. It's not about the clothes being worn or the rarity of the records, but the visceral emotion pouring out of the music. By that token, it's not uncommon for fans of punk music to reach through hardcore, emo, grunge...
