Company of Thieves almost sealed their fate in a casket marked "another literary band" when they quoted Oscar Wilde's The Duchess of Padua in their 2009 single. Fortunately, Wilde is not to Company of Thieves as Chuck Palahniuk is to Panic! At The Disco,...

It seems like every year, someone from this newspaper writes an impassioned plea for students to stay in DeKalb for the weekend. Well, since that has already been done this semester, let's just call this a counterpoint to going back to your parents house...

JC Brooks' least favorite word used to describe his post-punk/soul group, JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound, is the lazy designation "throwback." Though it's an understandable prima facie label of the band's echoing blues guitars, jumpy horns and subtle...

Hey you! Don't go home today; there's too much to do in DeKalb. Plus, it's Homecoming weekend! Seriously, if your suitcase is already packed and you've never spent a weekend cruising through the Barb City, you don't know what you're missing out on. Eliminate...

Looking nervously around the shadowy stage, Charlie Otto looks just like David Byrne. Then again, it's hard not to with his bobbing head peaking out of the iconic bloated suit that's become a symbol of the Talking Heads' singer/songwriter. Still, the...

We want the funk, give up the funk. There will be a whole lot of rhythm going down Saturday night when The Original Sirs play Otto's Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. The 21 and older show starts at 9 p.m. and is $6. The band will be recording video and...

Weekend warriors, put your war paint on and prepare to conquer DeKalb this weekend. Middlewest Fest is the most exciting thing to happen to DeKalb since, well, corn. NIU graduate John Ugolini put together this amazing weekend for anyone and everyone to...

If Tub Ring sounds like the name of a high school punk band from the nineties, that's because 17 years ago, it was. Since then, founding members Kevin Gibson (vocals) and Trevor Erb (bass) added Rob Kleiner (keyboards) to the mix and created a musical...

DeKALB | The first time NIU alum Jeff Genualdi saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers live, it was in the Duke Ellington Ballroom in 1991. The band, which was promoting its breakthrough album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik,"stopped in DeKalb for the second show of the...