DeKALB | Peter Olson's dad didn't appreciate his son's records. The assistant director of the NIU Art Museum and curator of Tuesday's "Listening to the Sounds that Inspired the Graphics" event, Olson said he had to explain to his father why he was filling...
DeKALB | This Easter, seek wisdom from your priest...Judas Priest. Metalwest Fest II will take place at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $7. The seven-hour show will feature a line-up of metal bands throughout the...
Today's submission is ABiCA's album Numb. So, these guys are sort of from my hometown, and I recognized their pictures on their website after I was assigned the story. I was also told about ABiCA from a guy at a hip hop show I was running a week ago or...
DeKALB | Beatnik Soup has nothing do with tomato bisque, but maybe just a little to do with Jack Kerouac. NIU's first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender open mic session, Beatnik Soup, will be held at 9 p.m. Thursday in DuSable Hall Room 140 as a part...
DeKALB | It’s the freakin’ weekend, baby, you’re about to have you some fun. If you went to the Wiz Khalifa show, you’re probably still recovering from that contact high. Wipe the sleep from your eyes and take in everything DeKalb has to offer...
DeKALB | Experimental composer John Cage made his first national television appearance in 1960, performing his “Water Walk” on the CBS game show I’ve Got a Secret. Despite the host’s reassurance that Cage was a real composer, the studio audience...
The green carpet was rolled out as Wiz Khalifa performed Wednesday night in the Convocaton Center. Mac Miller, one of Khalifa's artists and a member of his team Taylor Gang, opened the show. Miller, like Khalifa, had no problem with crowd appeal as he...
After over three years, roots musical group Clifton Roy and Folkstringer is calling it quits. Although the band may be saying goodbye, its members are leaving on a note of positive reflection about the music and memories they've created. Percussionist...
Zombies are often compared to snowflakes. Not only do they descend upon hopeless pedestrians in hordes, but each one is unique. Some are reanimated through voodoo as in the 1930s flick White Zombie, while others are the product of an ambiguous scientific...
Dash Cunning is returning to DeKalb, and this is good news. A quality blend of ‘90s punk and the anthemic emo popularized by bands like Jimmy Eat World, Dash Cunning is one of the more exciting openers on any bill in DeKalb this year. They played their...
DeKALB | Painter, printmaker, poet, playwright, theorist. Wassily Kandinsky: Klange (Sounds) is a new exhibit in the NIU Art Museum that explores the work of the Russian artist that changed art forever. "Kandinsky was sort of the first artist to make...
Because I scavenge music stores with an almost sexual intensity, corporate instrument franchises can seem salacious. It is unnerving to watch a Gretsch Electromatic being used for a tone-deaf 14-year-old’s rendition of "Iron Man." It seems wrong to...
