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Rock Against Rape will benefit victim empowerment

March 30, 2011

The NIU Women's Resource Center is kicking off April, or Sexual Assault Awareness Month, with some rocking tunes. Rock Against Rape will take place tonight at 6 p.m. at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Tickets are $5 and all proceeds will go to...

Poetry slam, play premiere and ghosts among DeKalb’s top entertainment this semester

By Chris Krapek | January 17, 2011

Even if your CD collection is filled with NOW! That's What I Call Music albums and local music really isn't your thing, DeKalb still has plenty to entertain you with during the Winter. This semester, you can hear poetry, look at art, catch a play and...

Plenty to do over Thanksgiving break

By Chris Krapek | November 22, 2010

You're loosening your pants. The tryptophan is kicking in and those candied yams are putting you in a coma. There's your family arguing over what year they vacationed to Niagara Falls. And oh, here's grandpa, talking your ear off about the merits of the...

Greta Morgan and Gold Motel will play The House Cafe during Middlewest Fest Saturday. Morgan describes the title bands debut album Summer House as an analogy for her year in California after moving there from Chicago.

Gold Motel shack up for another stay in DeKalb

By Troy Doetch | November 11, 2010

If you missed Gold Motel at The House Cafe in September, you really missed out. The Motown inspired retro-pop brainchild of The Hush Sound alumnus Greta Morgan (previously known as Greta Salpeter) filled the coffee house to its tapestries, and all but...

Like the blues? You’re not alone

By Chris Krapek | November 3, 2010

Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah. Do you like blues? Dah-dah-dah-dah-dah. You're not alone. Tonight, and the first Thursday of every month, The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, hosts a blues jam. Whether you're a novice or you know all of B.B. King's b-sides, you...

Brown gets her lyrical groove on

By Jimmy Johnson | October 13, 2010

Some people just know Bianca Brown as a member of the NIU women's basketball team. But there's another passionate persona of the senior guard. That other side is her rapping personality, "Lyric." Brown took the form of her hip-hop alter ego Tuesday night...

Folk-rock sensation The Giving Tree Band will hit The House Cafe this Friday night at 9 p.m. The band encourages everyone to wear their pajamas.

The Giving Tree Band to folk up DeKalb

By Heather Skrip | October 5, 2010

The Giving Tree Band produces a sound unlike any other by combining bluegrass and rock elements. This Yorkville-based band is comprised of eight members-two of which are NIU alum (Andy Goss and Erik Norman). GTB already has three albums under it's belt,...

Ben (left) and Emily Roberts of Carolina Story at The House Cafe Friday.

Carolina Story is a tale all its own

By Troy Doetch | September 20, 2010

It's meant as a compliment when I say Carolina Story may induce vomiting. The husband and wife duo that played their ethereal folk pop Friday at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, are the most adorable couple ever, causing romantics to swoon and...

Greta Morgan and Gold Motel will play The House Cafe during Middlewest Fest Saturday. Morgan describes the title bands debut album Summer House as an analogy for her year in California after moving there from Chicago.

Gold Motel to bring retro-pop to DeKalb

By Troy Doetch | September 9, 2010

After the Chicago-based The Hush Sound announced their hiatus, singer/songwriter Greta Morgan took to the west coast. Leaving behind the Midwest, she spent a year and a half living out her dream: studying music and immersing herself in the California...

Local bands last call tonight

Local band’s last call tonight

By Chris Krapek | August 26, 2010

DeKALB | When you ask members of local band Loose Lips Sink Ships how to describe their music, there's no concise answer. Are they math-rockers? Experimental? Here are some responses from the band: "I usually tell people, ‘Do you like Metallica?'" "Dave...