As the Seattle Seahawks flew high over the Denver Broncos, Bruno Mars cooked a very small plate of chili peppers.Mars shined as bright as his glittering golden jacket at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show. The show opened with a children’s choir performing...

Well-written autobiographies can be quite the intellectual journey. Readers gain knowledge and wisdom when the authors share personal experiences from different points in their lives. Autobiographies written by musicians have their own unique beauty....

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...

Winnie Page and the Dirt Band are bringing skanky, dirty funk to DeKalb. Formed in January, the Dirt Band is composed almost entirely of music majors (the exception being a Spanish major) at NIU. Examining their influences, the members check off all the...

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...