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...
Some say comic book artist Jon Lennon is crazy. In fact, it was Ain't It Cool News who said his work "is not the product of a sane mind." Can you blame them? This is the guy who's books feature men shooting up their semen intravenously to get a fix. In...
DeKALB | Like Rats is a hardcore punk-inspired black metal band from Chicago. Citing heavy, aggressive influences such as Celtic Frost and Discharge, the group may look somewhat out of place when they play with the pop punk band The Wonder Years on Tuesday...
DeKALB | The Nirvana baby, the Beatles walking across Abbey Road, Andrew W.K.'s bloody nose. -- some album covers are as iconic and evocative as the music itself. Sheet Music and Record Albums: Graphics of Their Time is a new exhibition in the NIU Art...
DeKALB | So you’re probably thinking you want to get out of here this weekend. Another incident means more hysteria which means more people saying “Why did I even come here?” That’s not without reason, but DeKalb is not the apocalyptic wasteland...
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