All Entries in the "File" Category
Hello, My Name is Kurt
Philly’s Kurt Vile is wakin’ on a pretty day
Hello, My Name Is John
Interview with John Wicks of Fitz And The Tantrums
File: May 2013
Bob Dylan, Butchershop Quartet, Jeff Buckley and more.
Hello, My Name is Shana
Don’t yell “Catfight” at Girl Group Chicago
Hello, My Name is Dwight
Dwight Yoakam: Country’s hottest bachelor or biggest badass?
File: April 2013
Glen Hansard, Northerly Island expansion, 826Chi’s Promic-Con, CIMMfest
Hello, My Name Is Kinky
Kinky Friedman talks Bob Dylan and his political aspirations for 2014
File: March 2013
Clive Davis judges Mother McAuley graduate, Billy Corgan selling furniture
Listomania: IE’s Best Of 2012
Our albums, songs, and concerts of the year
Hello, My Name Is Emmylou
Illinois Entertainer: You devote so much of your time, energy, and even your own house (!) to your Bonaparte’s Retreat dog shelter. What spurred on this mission?
Emmylou Harris: Well, it goes back to that dog. Bonaparte was my companion who traveled with me for 10 years. He went everywhere on the bus. When he died [...]
File: January 2013
Cal’s Bar, Val’s halla, and “The Walking Dead”
File: December 2012
Live On ‘XRT
One grand tradition refuses to go the digital route. When you pick up a copy of ONXRT: Live From The Archives, Volume 14 starting on Dec. 4 at local Target stores (or at Target.com) have a set of keys, a pen, or any relatively sharp object (fingernails included, but why ruin a perfectly [...]
Hello, My Name Is Henry
IE: You don’t let one day go by without buying a record. What is today’s selection?
Henry Rollins: Well, I haven’t bought it yet, but the day is young. There’s a band from Finland that I like a lot. Well, it’s a guy and he records under the name Uton and he makes a lot of [...]
File: November 2012
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE?
Any day now the elves at The Lite (WLIT-FM, 93.9) will flip that red and green garland-wrapped lever they keep in a back room next to the reserve stash of Coffee-mate creamers and beat us into submission with a non-stop playlist of cheery Christmas carols. Worried you’re developing tinnitus? [...]
Hello, My Name Is Matthew
IE: You channel Abbey Road-era John Lennon on the cover of your debut, Big Inner with a crisp, white suit.
Matthew E. White: If I don’t wear a suit, with the long hair and beard I look like hippie man or some rocker guy. The album is kind of classy. [The suit] lets people know it’s [...]
