WHAT: Gloria Roubal, Dawna Nelson, Jimmy Bean
WHERE: The Clark Bar (suggested donation of $5)
WHEN: Tuesday, October 23rd at 7 p.m.
This benefit show is for Paul Sabuco (pictured right), who recently suffered a heart attack. Among those scheduled to play are Gloria Roubal, Dawna Nelson, and Jammin’ Jimmy Bean. Donations at the door — suggested minimum of $5. If you can’t make it to the show, but would like to help, please make an online donation.
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WHAT: Hardwell, Bingo Players, Savoy, DotExe
WHERE: Assembly Hall ($30-$45)
WHEN: Thursday, October 25th at 7 p.m.
This week, GLOWfest makes its stop on this campus as a part of their concert tour around the country on college campuses. It’s a college music festival bringing the latest in music, tech, fashion, philantropy, and startup culture to campuses across the country. The show features DJs Hardwell of The Netherlands, amongst others who will do their best to try to make some U of I students and the rest of the audience dance.
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WHAT: Cornmeal, Henhouse Prowlers, Sonny Stubble
WHERE: The Canopy Club ($12 advance/$14 door)
WHEN: Thursday, October 25th at 9 p.m.
Cornmeal’s appeal cross over through many genres: jam bands, rock, folk, bluegrass, country, you name it. Their “annual” Canopy Club show happens this week, and they are joined by Chicago bluegrassers Henhouse Prowlers and locals Sonny Stubble.
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WHAT: The Concrete Rivals, The Hershey Squirts, The Caramel Mints
WHERE: Mike ‘N Molly’s ($5)
WHEN: Thursday, October 25th at 10 p.m.
Vermont’s surf-rockers stop through at Mike ‘N Molly’s with their rip-roaring tunes. They’ll be joined by a couple of bands that don’t stray too far from that same type of sound either. The Caramel Mints are from Champaign and instrumental surf-rock band The Hershey Squirts join in as well.
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WHAT: Molly Bass, Epilep[c], The Interns, Reed Richards, Kirkwood West, HarshPro
WHERE: Cowboy Monkey ($5)
WHEN: Thursday, October 25th at 10 p.m.
Pretty fitting that the bass filled bill is headlined by someone with “bass” in her name. Chicago’s Molly Bass makes her way down to this part of the state and is joined by a bunch of locals to help out. As Halloween nears we’re going to have a lot of these celebrations throughout the weekend.
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WHAT: Empires, Warren Franklin and the Founding Fathers, Hank
WHERE: Courtyard Café ($5 students/$6 public)
WHEN: Friday, October 26th at 8:30 p.m.
U of I’s Starcourse puts on its first show of the school year with alt-rock dudes Empires. They just finished their new record, called Garage Hymn, which can be heard in its entirety below via their Bandcamp. Two other local bands will lend their support as the Courtyard Café gets some action on a Friday night.
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WHAT: Mimosa
WHERE: The Canopy Club ($15 advance/$18 door)
WHEN: Friday, October 26th at 9 p.m.
California DJ Mimosa makes his way back through C-U after performing at Pygmalion 2011. He’ll take his performance to the same stage he played that year as well in the Canopy Club. And it appears as if he’ll be the only one for this show. His new single, “SWRV,” is available for download over at his website, or you can stream it below.
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WHAT: The Coffin Daggers, Go! Tsunami, The Haunts
WHERE: Cowboy Monkey ($7)
WHEN: Friday, October 26th at 9:30 p.m.
C-U Zombie A Go Go and WPGU’s Surfabilly Freakout will host another show over at Cowboy to round out the work week. Brain Eater’s Ball will feature The Coffin Daggers, along with a couple of other surfabilly rock bands. This show, full of “live horror,” should be entertaining, to say the least.
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WHAT: The Curses
WHERE: Memphis on Main ($5)
WHEN: Friday, October 26th at 9 p.m.
Hopefully this is a continuing trend in good shows going down at Memphis on Main, and this week The Curses will have their go at things. I could not find the cost or the time of this one, so when we find the info, we’ll be sure to update it. For now, we’ll assume it’ll cost $5 to get i. Update: we were right, $5 cover, 9 p.m. start.
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WHAT: We Are The Willows, Evil Tents, The 92’s, The Awful Truth
WHERE: Mike ‘N Molly’s ($5)
WHEN: Saturday, October 27th at 8 p.m.
Indie outfit We Are The Willows come to town from our northerly neighboring state, Minnesota (formerly from Wisconsin). Their tour hits both of those states and Illinois included, and they’ll be joined by a couple of locals, with the blissful tunes of Evil Tents, The 92s, plus Salt Lake City’s The Awful Truth.
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WHAT: Rebelution, Passafire, Through The Roots 
WHERE: The Canopy Club ($17 advance/$20 door)
WHEN: Saturday, October 27th at 8:30 p.m.
Another jam band-esque show of sorts with the reggae band Rebelution will take the stage with touring mates Passafire and Through The Roots. Rebelution is on their Give Thanks Tour and have only California dates left following this show.
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WHAT: DJ Belly, DJ Delayney, DJ Kosmo, DJ Legtwo
WHERE: The Highdive ($5)
WHEN: Saturday, October 27th at 10 p.m.
The Highdive hosts this party, which is essentially a DJ battle that’s happening along with a Hallowen celebration. Complete with a costume contest, DJ Belly will face off with DJ Delayney against DJ Kosmo and DJ Legtwo. If you wear some 80s hip hop outfits, you get extra “points” if you’re looking to win the costume contest. If you’re just going for the music, that’s not a bad move either.
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EDITOR’S PICK: THE DIRTY FEATHERS, THE UGLIES, LOVE TOY
Cowboy Monkey ($7) — Saturday, October 27th at 9:30 p.m.
The Dirty Feathers know a thing or two about throwing a party, let alone one that has anything to do with Halloween. They performed last year on Halloween as well, and this year they are doing it again. This one has been dubbed “The Dirty Feathers’ Night of the Living Dead” show, which could literally mean anything, so we’ll have to see what tricks the gang pulls out for this show on Saturday night.
The band was just out on a short tour of the East Coast with shows in Philadelphia, New York, and Ohio (that last one isn’t quite East Coast, but close enough). Glad to have them back here, playing their first show since holding things down for the first night of Pygmalion with HUM, Psychic Twin, and That’s No Moon. This time around they’ll be joined by The Uglies, who call Chicago home, as well as locals Love Toy. Definitely a show that is worth checking out for celebrating Halloween weekend.