Telluride’s Mountainfilm on Tour, a touring short film festival, makes an appearance this evening at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre. Ten short films (mostly documentary shorts, with some animation and political satire mixed in) will be screened, …
Of all the fresh-faced rock and roll upstarts who call Champaign-Urbana home, there are only a handful who have experienced the evasive place called fame. It’s the place where hard work and serendipity meet. Lucky …
Recently, Champaign-Urbana has been lucky to be on the receiving end of the influx of talent being developed 120 miles east of C-U in Indianapolis. The “biggest small town in the world” has developed some …
After almost nine months of being MIA, college rock favorites Santa are returning to the stage to promote their debut extended player, My Bones. Each member spent their requisite semester abroad in the fall, and …
Imagine: You’re in a suburban field in east Memphis in the middle of a sweltering summer afternoon. You’ve walked past a stand selling Pronto Pups, and one hawking Red Man spit-and-chew tobacco; behind the curtain …
Good thing for places like The Iron Post, a live music joint universally known as a dive by all those who keep it real: it simply doesn’t matter what they look like. The focus has …
Mike ‘n Molly’s will be the place for you to see one of the better under-the-radar bands from the midwest tonight. The Silent Years, from Detroit, make a stop to perform alongside local punk stalwarts …
House parties once ruled the CU music scene. On any given weekend in the late 90’s, there were at least 2-3 shows happening, usually in Urbana, before WUNA decided that rock music was a bad …
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. If what you seek are Valentine’s jollies, come to a rock show at Mike n’ Molly’s. For those who really want to …
Shows at Urbana’s cozy Station Theatre are always a treat. The intimate, theatre-in-the-round setting makes the spectator feel nearly a part of the performance. Certain shows lend themselves better to this atmosphere than others of …
