WHAT: Jill Andrews, Kayla Brown & the Dulcet Kin
WHEN: Tuesday, April 20, 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Cowboy Monkey ($7)
Jill Andrews has been getting a lot of love on the blogosphere. And at first you might not undersand why. By all outward appearances, she should just sound like thousands of other singer-songwriters. But with her heartbreaking voice and affecting songwriting, she’s impossible to forget.
WHAT: Clipse and Motion Potion
WHEN: Wednesday, April 21 at 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Station 211 (free)
We don’t get too many national touring hip hop acts through these parts, so the fact that we get Clipse is pretty amazing. A rap group with the rare combination of critical acclaim and mainstream appeal, this one should be great. And you get jam DJ Motion Potion too. Please enjoy responsibly — you have class/work the next day.
WHAT: Giant Cloud, My Dear Alan Andrews, Kilroy et al.
WHEN: Friday, April 23 at 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: Mike n’ Molly’s
Giant Cloud is a free lovin’ band from New Orleans that should interest fans of the Grizzly Bear and all those other baroquey bands that blew up two years ago. Their songs manage to be breezy and complex at the same time. My Dear Alan Andrews and Kilroy et al. round out a pretty well-conceived night of music.
WHAT: WHEN: Saturday, April 24 at 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Parkland College (free)
St. Louis band So Many Dynamos headline a rock n’ roll Earth Day celebration. Apparently, there’s a battle of the bands competition going on, which I think will involve all the bands listed above that aren’t So Many Dynamos. So enjoy the competition. My money’s on whoever plays an acoustic set, what with it being Earth Day and all.
WHAT: The Used, Chiodos, New Medicine
WHEN: Saturday, April 24 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Canopy Club ($25, adv)
I’m not going to pretend to know a lot about this band. They are metal meets pop punk, they have sold a lot of albums and I’m guessing that nearly ten years into their careers, they have gotten pretty good at putting on a rocking show. So if you are into this kind of thing, you probably already know about it. But if you didn’t, then here you go.
NEW ADDITIONS
If you liked what you saw here last Friday, you should probably check again this Friday. And if you want some clues, don’t ask me. The other music editor is the one who knows about every show three weeks before the bands do. All I know is that there won’t be any Archers of Loaf reunion show this year. Boo!
LOOKING AHEAD (new additions in bold)
4/20/10
Courtyard Cafe – Jesse Johnson (noon, free)
Cowboy Monkey – Jill Andrews, Kayla Brown & the Dulcet Kin (8:30 p.m., $7)
Iron Post – Woody Woodward (5 p.m., free)
Iron Post – Music of Art Blakey with Karim Yengsep, Joan Hickey (8 p.m., $4)
4/21/10
Station 211 – Adult Swim Block Party featuring Clipse and Motion Potion (6 p.m. Free)
4/22/10
Aroma Cafe – Ashley Riley (7 p.m., free)
Art Theater – Duke of Uke ($TBA)
Cowboy Monkey – World’s First Flying Machine, One For the Team, The Fantastic Plastics, Mike Coulter (9:30 p.m., $5)
Iron Post – U of I Bridgewater and Guitar Jazz Combos (7 p.m., $2)
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
Iron Post – Weasel Dreams (5 p.m., free)
Mike n’ Molly’s – Giant Cloud, My Dear Alan Andrews (10 p.m.)
Rose Bowl – Delta Kings (9 p.m., $TBA)
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
Iron Post – Freak Brothers (6 p.m., $3)
Iron Post – Big Grove Zydeco (9:30 p.m., $3))
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, Sun Stereo, Benny Wil (3 p.m., free)
4/25/10
Canopy Club – Lebowski Achievers Festival with Neoga Blacksmith (8 p.m., free)
Iron Post – Laura Driscoll DMA Recital (3 p.m., free)
Iron Post – Mean Lids (7:30 p.m., $3)
4/26/10
Canopy Club – Third Eye Blind, The Upwelling (7 p.m. $25 Adv)
4/28/10
Iron Post – Parkland Jazz Improv Class (5:30 p.m., $2)
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)
Iron Post – U of I Classic Brass (7 p.m., $5)
Krannert Center – Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s (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)
Highdive – Rock Out Against Rape Benefit with Mike Ingram & Kayla Brown, My Werewolf Diary, Corn Desert Ramblers, TBA (6 p.m., $5)
Iron Post – Boneyard Jazz Quintet (5 p.m., free)
Iron Post – Kilborn Alley 10th Anniversary Show (9 p.m., $10)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – The Canoes, Death Tram (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 (7 p.m, $8-28)
5/6/10
Canopy Club – Santah
5/7/10
Bentley’s – Mike Ingram and Kayla Brown (10 p.m.)
Canopy Club – Eclipse (Pink Floyd Tribute) (10 p.m., $10 Adv)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Mertz ($TBA)
The Phoenix – Corcid, Thrash Zombie, Commodity, Heavy Lies the Crown, Short Handed Goal, The Soviet, Atheory, We Must Dismantle All This, The Diamond Stretch (6 p.m., $7, special AA show)
5/8/10
Bentley’s – The Impalas (9 p.m., $5)
Canopy Club – Laughing Prairie Dog Festival with Yourself & the Air, Jookabox, New Ruins, Joe Pug
Mike ‘n Molly’s – You & Yourn, Raina Rosa (9 p.m., $5)
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., $12 Adv)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Tractor Kings, Darling, Pigeon ($TBA)
5/15/10
Bentley’s – Billy Galt (8:30 p.m., free)
5/16/10
Highdive – Sick, XXX Smut, ANTiSEEN! (7 p.m., $10)
5/18/10
Aroma Cafe – Jane Boxall (7 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)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Krukid, DJ LEGTWO, Bozak (9 p.m., $5)
5/22/10
Bentley’s – The Curses and the Duke of Uke (10 p.m.)
Cowboy Monkey – The Hillbilly Jones (10 p.m., $5)
Memphis on Main – Rookwood, TBA ($TBA)
Mike n’ Molly’s – Common Loon, TBA (10 p.m., $5)
5/27/10
Cowboy Monkey – New Ruins, Gospel Gossip, Peninsula, Husband&wife Red Pens ($TBA)
5/28/10
Rose Bowl – Delta Kings (9 p.m., $TBA)
5/30/10
Cowboy Monkey – “Hit It Run” with DJ Kosmo
Hessel Park – Battle of the Bands 2nd/3rd Place Winners (6 p.m., free)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Jet W. Lee, Elsinore, Sun Stereo, En Fuego ($TBA)
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., $TBA)
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Roberta Sparrow, TBA ($TBA)
West Side Park – Ben Bedford (noon, free)
6/5/10
Champaign Public Library – Mark Dvorak (2 p.m., free)
Cowboy Monkey – Brat Pack
IMC – Kyle Bruckman & Rich O’Donnell (8 p.m., $TBA)
6/7/10
Canopy Club – Clutch, The Bakerton Group, Lionize and Never Got Caught ( 7 p.m., $22 advance)
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., $5)
West Side Park – Taste of Champaign with Elsinore, Hurricane Gumbo, Kevin Lucas Orchestra, more (11 a.m., free)
6/13/10
West Side Park – Taste of Champaign with Bottle of Justus, Hathaways, The No Secret Band, more (11 a.m., free)
6/18/10
Bentley’s – TwoYou (10 p.m.)
Canopy Club – High 5 Homicide, Trash City Rockers, Atheory, and Flightrisk
6/23/10
Morrissey Park – Run for Cover (6:30 p.m., free)
6/24/10
Garden Hills Park – Déjà vu (6:30 p.m., free)
6/25/10
Aroma Cafe – Ashley Renay (7 p.m., free)
Rose Bowl – Delta Kings ($TBA)
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
Mike ‘n Molly’s – Duke of Uke, Beat Kitchen, Tree Thump ($TBA)
6/27/10
Hessel Park – Decatur Park Singers (6:30 p.m., free)
6/30/10
Elsner Park – Point of Fire (6:30 p.m., free)
7/2/10
West Side Park – Aaron Koppel Duo (noon, free)
7/10/10
Downtown Champaign – 150th Birthday Party with Hum, Delta Kings, Duke of Uke, Tons O’ Fun Band, Candy Foster and Shades of Blue
7/11/10
Douglass Park – Candy Foster (6:30 p.m., free)
7/14/10
Powell Park – Singing in the Abbey (6:30 p.m., free)
7/15/10
Aroma Cafe – Chris Darby (7 p.m., free)
7/16/10
Iron Post – Vanattica, Shark Bandit, Sages ($TBA)
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
9/25/10
Krannert – Roky Erickson with Okkervil River
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