Thank God for all he missed because watching Darius Rucker take the stage at the NIU Convocation Center, "it all made perfect sense." Thompson Square kicked off the concert Saturday with some "Rock N' Roll" energy with their rendition of a Led Zeppelin...
Hunter S. Thompson once wrote a book, forgot about it and published it years later. It was called The Rum Diary, and now it's a major motion picture. The Rum Diary is set in the 1960s and follows Paul Kemp (played by Johnny Depp), a journalist from New...
News broke Wednesday that indie music's most adorable couple, Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard, have opted for a divorce. Upon hearing this, you may have been shocked. You may have shed a tear. You may have decided you are never going to believe in love...
Cauz ‘N' Effx is a study in cause and effect. Artists as varied as Led Zeppelin and Tech N9ne were the catalysts for the musicians of the Aurora-based quartet to start meshing their respective styles. The result has been years of collaboration between...
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...
