Thrash aliens GWAR are playing Canopy Club in all their blood-spurting glory on Monday, November 2nd with Born of Osiris and Battlecross. The show is part of a newly-announced second leg of the band’s 30 …
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The Overture: August 17-23
The new Kurt Cobain doc is screening and the Gin Blossoms are playing this week. Welcome to the 1990s, C-U.
The Overture: August 10-16
Music and comedy and DJs, oh my!
Stream a new Earth Witch track
The local sludge wizards in Earth Witch have risen from a two-year-long sleep to play their hardest-rocking track yet. “Green Torch” is the first song on a two-song digital release. The other track, “Guts,” is …
Fiesta Cafe shares “It’s Raining Tacos” video
It seems as if Golden Harbor has some competition in the social media department. Fiesta Cafe posted a video to its Facebook page on Monday, featuring one member of its friendly waiting staff, Amy, lip …
Former C-U resident-fronted band reviewed on Pitchfork
Grave Babies, a Seattle-based band fronted by C-U native Danny Wahlfeldt, took a dark turn on their latest album, Holographic Violence, out now on Hardly Art. In doing so, they garnered the attention of tastemaking …
The Overture: August 3-9
Attention punk rockers: Champaign-Urbana is the place to be this week.
Q&A with Kenna Mae
Maddie sat down with one of Champaign-Urbana's most soulful singer-songwriters, Kenna Mae to talk about her roots in local folk and roots.
The Overture: July 27-Aug. 2
From original hip hop to a Patsy Cline tribute set — here's your Overture for the week.
Stream Boycut’s debut EP Alien
Boycut, the electronic duo of Feral States’ Joe Meland and Tara Terra’s Emily Otnes just dropped a banger of an EP called Alien. The 5-track EP, which debuted this morning on Ghost Track, and features …