Music

Students are back from spring break this week, and so is the wide slection of live local music—symphonies, acapella groups, blues, world music, rock, bluegrass—this week has it all.

Spring break might mean fewer students in town, but there's still plenty of local live music options for your week.

There's no shortage of options or variety this week in the local music scene.

Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras stack Monday and Tuesday with Cajun music, and a healthy helping of jazz rounds out the week.

This week is the usual bevy of local music events, with a spring folk festival happening in Urbana–bluegrass is sure to push us out of the February blues and toward warmer weather.

A week chalk-full of performances, check out what's coming up in live music in and around C-U.

Austin sits down with Brooklyn-based duo Paris Monster in advance of their February 16th show at Blackbird in Urbana.

Gavin tells the story of Gatson, a local rapper worth turning your attention towards.

C-U Folk & Roots Festival's Winter Weekend highlights this week's slate of live shows in the area.

John gets his mind blown by the local bands featured during the first weekend of the 28th edition of The Great Cover Up.

James chats with Winter Weekend co-organizer Charlie Harris ahead of next weekend's mini-festival in Downtown Urbana.

Gavin talks about Groove Daze, a project providing an outlet for music made by artists at U of I.

The Great Cover Up kicks off this week, check out what's happening there, as well as what else is on tap for live music in the area.

Sal Nudo chats with Colleen Deremiah, the musical force behind Warm Darn, following the release of her new album Word Search.

Here's your live music calendar for the week ahead.

There's plenty to take a look at as we start 2019 as far as the local music scene goes.

Check out what's coming up this week in live music.

Plenty of shows to check out in this frozen tundra of Champaign-Urbana this week.

Here's the first Overture of 2019, full of live music options for this week and weekend.

Here are our picks for BEST Music this year.

With the end of the year approaching, this week's live music calendar is a little sleepier than usual.

Ahead of this Saturday's farewell show, we chat with Isaac Arms of Heirship Records to talk about closing the books.

Here are the best records to come out this year, ranked.

A big week for Heirship Records highlights live music in C-U.

With his new experimental project making its way into the world, we chat with Adam Porter of Wingclipper to chat more about what he's doing with his time.

Check out what's happening this week in the live music world (in our community).

Gavin provides another update for the local scene as we close out November.

Roll yourself out of your house post-Thanksgiving weekend and hit these shows this week.

The Dry Look wrap up the second portion of their tour with a homecoming show at Cowboy Monkey, read up on how things went in part two.

Though one might think there's a lag because of the holiday, there are still a bunch of shows this week in C-U.

John sat down with current EMS director, Assistant Professor Eli Fieldsteel, to talk about the history of the EMS and the upcoming anniversary festival.

Gavin checks in with local rapper Ausar Bradley to see what he's been up to.

We get a full rundown of The Dry Look's current tour, all told through guitarist Michael Kramer.

Check out what's happening this week in live music.

Here's a quick look at the music scene's happenings.

The weekend holds some amazing live shows to check out in the area, so check out what's coming up and get your plans in order.

Student-run online radio station Pizza FM is thinking bigger than the airwaves.

Shows at Iron Post, Krannert Center, Canopy Club, and plenty more this week in live music.

Eric caught some shows at this past weekend's C-U Folk & Roots Festival in Urbana.

Halloween shows and beyond, here's what's coming up this week and weekend in C-U's live music circuit.

John speaks with C-U Folk and Roots Festival organizers Rob Krumm and Frances Harris about this year’s festival.

My Morning Jacket's Jim James, C-U Folk & Roots Festival's 10 year anniversary, and more this week in live music.

As summer officially ends and fall begins, there are still plenty of things to check out as we get closer to year's end.

Hogchute Harvest, Doobie Brothers, and more for this week's installment of our live music calendar.

With upwards of 30 shows this week, check out the calendar for live music in and around C-U.

James chats with one of the Avett Brothers, Seth Avett, ahead of their performance later this week in Champaign.

PYGMALION week has arrived, check out what's forthcoming there, as well as other shows around C-U.

Plenty of updates within about the local scene for September and beyond.