WHAT: St. Vincent, Elsinore
WHEN: Tuesday, March 30 at 9 p.m.
WHERE: The Highdive
There isn’t too much I can say about this that Annie didn’t cover in her preview, so I’ll link you to it. The only thing left is to pray that Ms. Clark busts out “Marrow“.
WHAT: What It Is! with Mavis Staples, Booker T., and JJ Grey
WHEN: Tuesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Mavis Staples and Booker T both have storied careers that need to introduction. If all of that star power doesn’t do it for you, JJ Grey has spent the last decade blowing the roof off venues all over the country (Canopy and Highdive included) with his main band, Mofro.
WHAT: Bonnaroo College Comedy Tour with Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani, Pete Holmes, Reggie Watts
WHEN: Thursday, April 1st 8 p.m.
WHERE: Courtyard Cafe
Due to the fantastically uninformative Courtyard Cafe, the details on this one are sparse. On the up side, there’s no way cover winds up above five bucks, and it might even be free. UPDATE: The show is $7 with an I-Card or $10 without.
WHAT: Digging in Exile with Spinnerty and Matt Brombaugh
WHEN: Saturday, April 3 at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Exile on Main St.
Spinnerty and Matt Brombaugh will only be spinning records they can find in the store (bargain-bin soul LPs, look out). And when they finish, any record they spin will be half price.
WHAT: Greensky Bluegrass, Bob and Pricilla
WHEN: Saturday, April 3 at 9 p.m.
WHERE: 88 Broadway
While this show probably doesn’t conform to most of our readers’ radars, I’ve heard nothing but good things about Greensky Bluegrass from my jam-minded friends. Think of it as the next step up from that Avett Brothers show you went to….
NEW THIS WEEK
Once again, not much to report. I recommend trolling through Myspace and Pollstar for Pygmalion leaks…
LOOKING AHEAD (new additions in bold)
3/29/10
Canopy Club – Diafanes (6:30 p.m., $7)
Iron Post – Chip Stephens Trio (7 p.m., $TBA)
3/30/10
Krannert Center – What it Is! Featuring Mavis Staples, Booker T. JJ Grey
The Highdive – St. Vincent, Elsinore (Doors @ 8 p.m. – show @ 9 p.m., $13 Adv.)
3/31/10
Iron Post – Parkland Jazz Improv Class (5 p.m., $2)
Iron Post – Glen Wilson (7:30 p.m., $6)
4/1/10
The Brass Rail – Terminus Victor, Roberta Sparrow, TBA (8 p.m., $TBA)
Canopy Club – FOOLSTRAVAGANZA! with Good Luck Jane, The 312s, Audiac Arrest, Vivian McConnell, Heyokas, South Jordan, The Skalalitabs, With The Morning, and Seconds to Sundown ($7)
Courtyard Cafe – Bonnaroo Comedy Tour with Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani, Pete Holmes, Reggie Watts ($TBA)
Iron Post – U of I Big Band II (7 p.m., $2)
Krannert Center – Say It With a Smile (5 p.m., free)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Spinnerty (10 p.m., $5)
4/2/10
Bentley’s – Caleb Cook and the Glass House Carpenters (9 p.m., $4)
Canopy Club – David Bazan, Headlights ($10 Adv.)
Cowboy Monkey – Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, The Curses (10 p.m., $10 advance)
Iron Post – Prairie Dogs (5 p.m., free)
Iron Post – Dennis Stroughmatt’s Creole Spirit (9 p.m., $5)
Mike n’ Molly’s – The Blue Hit, Mean Lids, Hathaways (10 p.m., $5)
4/3/10
88 Broadway – Greensky Bluegrass, Bob and Pricilla (9 p.m., $8)
Bentley’s – Corn Desert Ramblers (9 p.m., $4)
Canopy Club – Microfinance Bridgade Benefit with Say it With a Smile, Pompous Pylate, Tricia Scully, Justice James (6 p.m., $7)
Canopy Club – Zach May and The Maps (Covering the Strokes’ Is This It) (10 p.m., $7)
Cowboy Monkey – The Afterdarks, The Krank Daddies, Th’Empires (10 p.m., $5)
Exile on Main St. – Digging in Exile with Spinnerty and Matt Brombaugh (2 p.m., free)
IMC – I-Pan, Rumba No Biso
Iron Post – Sandunga (6 p.m., $3)
Iron Post – Jack Johnston and the Curse (9 p.m., $3)
Mike n’ Molly’s – Take Care, Community College (10 p.m., $5)
Staerkel Planetarium (Parkland College) – Lynn O’Brien (3 p.m. $3)
4/4/10
Iron Post – Matt and Tom Turino (7 p.m., $TBA)
4/5/10
Canopy Club – Bassnectar, DJ Vadim, DJ Mertz (9 p.m., $17 Adv.)
4/7/10
The Highdive – Japandroids, Love is All (Doors @ 7 p.m. – show @ 8 p.m., $12 Adv.)
Iron Post – In Your Ear Big Band (6 p.m., $2)
Iron Post – Eponymous (9 p.m., $3)
4/8/10
Canopy Club – NOLA Relief Benefit with Zach May and the Folks, Corn Desert Ramblers, Stan McConnell of Santah, Asher Weisberg, Bob & Pricilla and Friends, Mayhew the Traitor, Ben Leddy, Claire Johnson (6 p.m., $7)
IMC – Turn it UP! Benefit with Leiloni Stars, Vanattica, Tom Miebach, Anna Schweig, Cara Bailey (7 p.m., $5 Adv)
Iron Post – U of I Latin Jazz Band (7 p.m., $2)
4/9/10
Bentley’s – The Sugar Prophets (9 p.m., $4)
Canopy Club – Champaign County CASA Benefit with SCP, From the Tops of Trees, Kilroy et al., Midwestern Gentleman (6 p.m., $TBA)
Canopy Club – Mike Posner, Good Luck Jane (10 p.m., $20 Adv.)
Cowboy Monkey – Common Loon (CD release show), Early Day Miners, New Ruins (10 p.m., $5)
Iron Post – Darden Purcell (5 p.m., free)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Ussop the Liar, Neoga Blacksmith (9 p.m., $5)
4/10/2010
Bentley’s – Shandy Wilsey Band (6 p.m., free)
Bentley’s – Missing the Point, The Run Around, TBA (10 p.m., $4)
Courtyard Cafe – Organic Flow, Primeridian (8 p.m., $TBA)
Cowboy Monkey – DJ Belly vs. CZO
Krannert Center – Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
IMC – Roy Zimmerman (8 p.m., $15)
Iron Post – The Painkillers (6 p.m., $3)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Very Truly Yours, This is Versailles, Withershins (10 p.m., $5)
4/11/10
Iron Post – Chip Stephens and Donnie Heitler (7 p.m., $5)
4/13/10
Iron Post – Morgan Powell’s Traditional Jazz Orchestra (5 p.m., $5)
4/15/10
88 Broadway – Tommy Castro Band ($TBA)
The Brass Rail – Withnail, Ussop the Liar (10 p.m., $TBA)
Canopy Club – This Must Be the Band (Talking Heads Tribute) (10 p.m., $8 Adv)
Cowboy Monkey – Cameron McGill and What Army (10 p.m., $7)
Krannert Center – Joshua Bell
4/16/10
Bentley’s – Dan Hubbard (10 p.m., $3)
Cowboy Monkey – Santah, David Vandervelde, Ghostfinger, Jitney (9:30 p.m., $7)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Arkansas Dogjaw, Midmost (10 p.m., $5)
4/17/10
Bentley’s – Tiger Bones, Menthols, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
Canopy Club – The Antlers, Phantogram (10 p.m., $12)
Champaign Public Library – Elsinore (4 p.m., free)
Cowboy Monkey – Daijaku, The Madeira, Abstract Artimus (10 p.m., $5)
Exile on Main St. – Record Store Day Show with Elsinore, The Palace Flophouse, Mertz, Mike Ingram & Kayla Brown, Delta Kings, DJ LEGTWO, Take Care, Kirkwood West, Vapor Lanes, Beat Kitchen, My Werewolf Diary (Elzie from New Ruins), DJ Belly, S.Words w/ DJ Belly, Santah, Tractor Kings, DJ Tim Hayden, Rice the Sound Transmitter, Epilep[c] (12 p.m., free)
The Highdive – Shannon Curfman (7 p.m., $12 Adv)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Heyokas, Grody Hunt, TBA (9 p.m., $5)
Parasol Records – Record Store Day Show with Elsinore, TBA (free)
Urban Outfitters – Boneyard Arts Festival Show with Mickey Karbal (5 p.m., free)
4/18/10
Cowboy Monkey – Robbie Fulks, Jake Fleischli (8 p.m., $10 Adv)
IMC – Lac La Belle (7 p.m., $TBA)
The Rose Bowl – Bill Kirchen ($TBA)
Urbana Free Library – The Duke of Uke (2 p.m., free)
4/22/10
Aroma Cafe – Ashley Riley (7 p.m., free)
Cowboy Monkey – World’s First Flying Machine, One For the Team, The Fantastic Plastics, Mike Coulter (9:30 p.m., $5)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Via Audio, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
4/23/10
Bentley’s – The Witala Brothers (10 p.m., $3)
Canopy Club – Local H, Kinch (7 p.m. $10)
Canopy Club – Family Groove Company, Kinetix (10 p.m., $7)
Cowboy Monkey – 90’s Daughter
Mike n’ Molly’s – Giant Cloud, My Dear Alan Andrews (10 p.m.)
4/24/10
Bentley’s – Mike Ingram and Dawna Nelson (9 p.m., $2)
Canopy Club – The Used, Chiodos, New Medicine (8 p.m. $25 Adv)
Cowboy Monkey – Matt Poss and Rolling Thunder (10 p.m., $5)
Krannert Center – James Farm
Mike n’ Molly’s – Hot Cops, Native, Derrick Hart, Trip Light Fantastic (10 p.m., $5)
Parkland College – Earth Day Battle of the Bands with So Many Dynamos, Vanattica, Seventeen Sisters, The Lost Years, Year of the Bobcat, Seldan, Shark Bandit, Heyokas, Benny Wil (3 p.m., free)
4/25/10
Canopy Club – Lebowski Achievers Festival with Neoga Blacksmith (8 p.m., free)
4/26/10
Canopy Club – Third Eye Blind, The Upwelling (7 p.m. $25 Adv)
4/29/10
Canopy Club – Hairbangers Ball (8 p.m. $5)
Cowboy Monkey – The Life and Times, Sweet Cobra, TBA (10 p.m., $7 Adv)
Highdive – Paul Thorn, Fred Eaglesmith (7 p.m., $18 advance)
Krannert Center – Margot & the Nuclear So and Soís (10 p.m., Free)
4/30/10
Canopy Club – Teach for America Benefit Concert with Jet W. Lee, Fiveohfirst, JigGsaw, and Ben and Zach (6 p.m., $TBA)
Cowboy Monkey – Mhondoro, Rumba Na Biso (10 p.m., $5)
Kalyx Center (Monticello) – Daytrotter Barnstormer Tour with Ra Ra Riot, Delta Spirit, Free Energy, Nathaniel Rateliff, Pearly Gate Music (7 p.m., free)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – The Canoes, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
5/1/10
Cowboy Monkey – Hot Cops, Molehill, Brighton MA (10 p.m., $5)
The Highdive – Dubstep Massacre with Positive Vibr8tions, Babylon System, DJ Belly, Zmick (9 p.m., $5 Adv)
IMC – Zach May and the Maps, MOON Ensemble
5/3/10
Cowboy Monkey – Roberta Sparrow, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
5/5/10
Krannert Center – Ozomatli
5/7/10
Canopy Club – Eclipse (Pink Floyd Tribute) (10 p.m., $10 Adv)
5/8/10
Bentley’s – The Impalas (9 p.m., $5)
Canopy Club – Yourself & the Air, Jookabox, New Ruins
5/13/10
Canopy Club – Justin Moore (7 p.m., $17 Adv)
5/14/10
Canopy Club – Flosstradamus, Mickey Karbal, CZO, Lucknow, Famicom (10 p.m., $12 Adv)
5/15/10
Bentley’s – Billy Galt (8:30 p.m., free)
5/19/10
Canopy Club – Mastodon, Between the Buried and Me, Baroness, Valiant Thorr (6:30 p.m., $23 Adv.)
IMC – Red Molly (7:30 p.m., $TBA)
5/20/10
Canopy Club – Fistful of Steel (Rage Against the Machine Tribute) (9 p.m., $5)
5/21/10
Bentley’s – Rocket Science (9 p.m., $2)
Canopy Club – Blessed With Pain, Seven Year Existence, Buried in Black, C.P.X. (9 p.m., $5)
5/22/10
Cowboy Monkey – The Hillbilly Jones (10 p.m., $5)
Mike n’ Molly’s – Common Loon, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
5/27/10
Mike n’ Molly’s – Gospel Gossip, Red Pens (10 p.m.)
5/30/10
Cowboy Monkey – “Hit It Run” with DJ Kosmo
Hessel Park – Battle of the Bands 2nd/3rd Place Winners (6 p.m., free)
6/2/10
Toalson Park – The Impalas (6:30 p.m., free)
6/4/10
Canopy Club – Point of Fire, Madison’s Avenue (9 p.m., $TBA)
West Side Park – Ben Bedford (noon, free)
6/5/10
Cowboy Monkey – Brat Pack
IMC – Kyle Bruckman & Rich O’Donnell (8 p.m., $TBA)
6/11/10
West Side Park – Taste of Champaign with Delta Kings, Chicago Mambo All-Stars (5 p.m., free)
6/12/10
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Poison Control Center, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
West Side Park – Taste of Champaign with Elsinore, Hurricane Gumbo, Kevin Lucas Orchestra, more (11 a.m., free)
6/13/10
West Side Park – Taste of Champaign with Bottle of Justus, Hathaways, The No Secret Band, more (11 a.m., free)
6/23/10
Morrissey Park – Run for Cover (6:30 p.m., free)
6/24/10
Garden Hills Park – Déjà vu (6:30 p.m., free)
6/26/10
Downtown Urbana – Urbana Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival with Bernard Allison, Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, Shirley King, John Lee Hooker Jr., more
6/27/10
Hessel Park – Decatur Park Singers (6:30 p.m., free)
6/30/10
Elsner Park – Point of Fire (6:30 p.m., free)
7/2/10
West Side Park – Aaron Koppel Duo (noon, free)
7/10/10
Downtown Champaign – 150 Birthday Party with Hum, Delta Kings, Duke of Uke, Tons O’ Fun Band, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue
7/11/10
Douglass Park – Candy Foster (6:30 p.m., free)
7/14/10
Powell Park – Singing in the Abbey (6:30 p.m., free)
7/18/10
Hessel Park – Jim Markum Swing Band (6:30 p.m., free)
7/23/10
Canopy Club – Central Illinois Metalfest 2010
7/24/10
Canopy Club – Central Illinois Metalfest 2010
7/25/10
Hessel Park – The Shantles (6:30 p.m., free)
7/29/10
Garden Hills Park – Mary Clark (6:30 p.m., free)
8/1/10
Hessel Park – Boneyard Jazz Quintet (6:30 p.m., free)
8/4/10
Clark Park – Exorna (6:30 p.m., free)
8/6/10
West Side Park – Road Song (noon, free)
8/8/10
Hessel Park – Lonnie Lester (6:30 p.m., free)
9/11/10
Cowboy Monkey – Cowboy Monkey’s 2nd Annual Band Hootenanny
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