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Head For The Mountains . . . With The Black Crowes
As part of their big thank-you reunion tour, The Black Crowes are hosting contests on their Web site (www.blackcrowes.com) and select radio stations for a VIP Red Rocks show in Denver.
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
High School prom offers very few good memories for us. Dipshit DJs trying to teach the Chicken Dance, hours spent in an uncomfortable tux, a near concussion suffered during a “friendly” bout of jousting, and the never-came-to-be after-prom kegger that was thwarted by goody-goody parents.
Hip Hop Seminar
EDUCATION & ENTERTAINMENT Want to know the ins and outs of the urban entertainment industry? If so the Columbia College Urban Music Association will host the two-day Urban Entertainment Seminar this week to inform the uninformed and give aspiring superstars the chance to be seen and heard.
Alice In Chains reborn?
While the bulk of their tour takes place in Europe, IE can confirm an Alice In Chains reunion tour will stop at the Metro on May 21st.
For the record
FOR THE RECORD Last month we told you about WLUW 88.7 and their annual on-air fundraising effort. Broadcasting from the Loyola University campus, WLUW is a non-commercial community station that staffs only two full-time employees and more than 200 volunteers.
Fuel Holding Tryouts For New Vocalist
95 WIIL ROCK is sending someone to Los Angeles to audition for post-grunge rock band Fuel. Turns out they’re looking for a lead singer and the radio station is sifting through locals, finding the diamond in the rough and providing one lucky someone with airfare and hotel accommodations to meet the band and possibly become […]
Hope For Harmony
Hope For Harmony IE would like to say “get well” to local musician Carole Garcia. The vocalist/keyboardist/harmonica player for the Woodridge-based rock cover band Electric Harmony was recently diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
Ed “Dr. Eddie” McLellan 1950-2006
Ed McLellan, longtime Chicago-area guitarist, instrument repairman, teacher, and music store owner, passed away at home on March 6th. Known to many as “Dr. Eddie” for his skill at instrument repair, McLellan had been an active participant in the Chicago music scene since the late 1960s.
Sultry Fundraiser
A scholarship fundraiser will be held on Sunday, March 19th, 2006 at the Oasis Edutainment Theatre, 12952 S. Western Ave. in Blue Island to benefit Chicagoland students attending one of the nation’s oldest and most successful Historically Black Universities: Morgan State University. The Chicago Chapter of the University’s Alumni Association is offering a musically reenacted […]
Willie Kent 1936 – 2006
Six strings reign supreme in blues. To the casual music fan, the guitar is blues simply because icons like Buddy Guy and B.B. King are never seen without it. The bass, however, doesn’t come with the same glory. Bassists are expected to stay in the pocket and, along with the drummer, do the grunt work: […]
You Might Be A Winner!
Last year Erica Gustafson had the honor of being the first Loop Rock Girl, and earned a fat $50,000 salary to attend station events, concerts, and appear in marketing campaigns. Now 97.9 (WLUP-FM) The Loop is looking for its 2006 Loop Rock Girl. The station promotion begins with four public casting calls (one of which […]
Change In Your Pocket?
The folks at 88.7 WLUW ain’t beatin’ around the bush. The message is simple: Give ’em some money.
Win A Trip To London
BRAVE NEW WORLD Catch them now before VH1 needs to dig them up in 10 years: Guitar Center and Vox Amplification are cosponsoring a contest that will send a winner and guest to London to see The Bravery at Wembley Arena on April 3rd.
Medical Coverage
Medical Coverage Imagine live performances on one stage of The Rolling Stones’ “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” Smashing Pumpkins’ “Today,” and Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash” — not necessarily performed in that order, definitely not by those artists and in all honesty possibly not even those songs. O.K. let’s try this […]
Singin’ For A Reason
We must confess our sins: Auditions for “Inspiration Sensation” are more than half over at this point, and we are just now getting around to mentioning them.
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