DeKALB | Next week, the Chicago indie rockers of Maps and Atlases will retrace their route back to DeKalb to play the band's (and DeKalb's) second Middlewest Fest. The Northern Star got to follow up with guitarist Erin Elders about playing last year at...
Get your dancing shoes on. As part of Middlewest Fest, the high-octane bluegrass jam vehicle Cornmeal is coming to DeKalb Saturday. Hailing from Chicago and perfecting their chops over the past decade performing across the country, Cornmeal plays an intricate...
Let's get down to horror business. During this weekend's Middlewest festivities, Chicago's Turbovamps! will open for the Celtic punk band Flatfoot 56 on Friday at the House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, in downtown DeKalb. Turbovamps!, a horror...
Does anyone still love Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Federation? According to one band playing this year's Middlewest Fest, someone does. The Northern Star got the chance to chat with Philip Dickey (guitar, vocals) of Someone Still Loves...
Irish punk on Middlewest soil. Much like Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys, Chicago's Flatfoot 56 plays a special brand of punk rock based in traditional Irish music. Together with bands like the Tossers and Sleeping Under 47, the group will be part...
Staff Writer DeKALB | When talking with musicians about their favorite things to do in DeKalb, you never expect them to mention playing impromptu shows in their pajamas, but that is exactly what Todd Fink of The Giving Tree Band said when discussing his...
A spiral of CDs appeared on the brick circle outside of Founders Memorial Library Thursday. Not being one to ignore curiosity, I took a closer look. I was rewarded with something called "A Modern American Playlist: Disc 1." To whomever was behind this...
There has been a very enticing rumor floating around that Nickelodeon is planning on launching re-makes of hits from the not-so-distant past including Doug, Rocko's Modern Life and Angry Beavers, just to name a few.Before all the ‘90s kids lose their...
Tucked away in a dusty back room, R. Wesley Carr pulls out his scuffed-up 1959 classical guitar. The walls are lined with old guitar cases and a tattered Grateful Dead poster and the floor is cluttered with stools and amplifiers, but he appears completely...
<span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn; font-size: xx-small;">David Coleman, "The Dating Doctor," gives students dating advice inthe Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student CenterTuesday.
"I realize I look more like Kevin James than Will Smith," David Coleman began his presentation in the Duke Ellington Ballroom on Tuesday night. Regardless of his appearance, Coleman is the "real-life Hitch." And yes, that means the movie was actually...
Historically, September is a monster month for albums. The Beatles' Abbey Road (1969), Beck's Sea Change (2002), and Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (1982) were all released as fall began. Maybe it's the crisp air and changing colors, or maybe it's the return...
