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The iconic Earth, Wind & Fire is coming to Champaign in May to perform at the State Farm Center.  The concert will be held on May 6th, 2022 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be going …

Mahomet-based singer-songwriter Angela Palivos has won the 2021 Sweetwater songwriting contest alongside two other winners. Her song “Reason” — co-written with her husband Kevin Sisney — is a self-described “gypsy blues” song, with a driving bass …

Three years ago, HUM reissued their 1998 release Downward is Heavenward through Matt Talbott’s Earth Analog distribution. Now, a few years later, there are more copies to be bought from Polyvinyl Records, the label that …

Facebook is generally the worst, but it definitely has its perks sometimes, like when I discovered this stellar EP from the Champaign/Urbana Area DIY group.  From Death Springs Life Eternal is a post-rock EP from Belle, …

Kokomono — the new project created by U of I student Jake Julian — has released their debut single “All the Way.”  The track is an ode to gospel, jazz, and hip-hop, all of which Julian has …

The Landovers, a band formed during the pandemic by Nicholas Stine, have released their EP, Labor Dazed today. The band is made up of Clayton Deering on pedal steel guitar, Charlie Harris on bass, Cody Jensen on …

Urbana-based jazz and funk band The Data Waves have a new EP out titled Puesta Del Sol. The EP is collaboration with Atlanta-based singer Miyka’el, as well as yourbeautifulruin, who helps provide keyboards and synths. The four tracks …

The Champaign-Urbana based skate punk band Long Birds have unveiled their new website, which you can check out here. It’s a horrible, amazing, ugly, fun, colorful, and unapologetically 90s experience. Seriously, it’s a lot of …

Urbana-based punk rockers The Get Gones have released a new single titled “Risk It All.”  The minute and a half song kicks off with a sample from the film Dumb and Dumber before diving headfirst into some …