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inspired by literary works on themes of hedonism and secular desires—Three Pieces from The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz and The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan by Griffes – Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center, 7:30pm Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi – Suor Angelica explores the heartbreak of a mother who learns of her child’s death. Gianni Schicchi examines greed with a light, comic touch – Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $8-20
ON STAGE
Lucid Records’ rock outfits Life at Sea (above) and The Blackouts at Cafe Paradiso, Friday, 6pm, $5
ThursdayNov13 LIVE MUSIC
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U of I #3 Big Band – Iron Post, 7pm, TBA G. Lee – Aroma, 8pm, free Lamonte Parsons Jazz Trio – Senators Pub, 8pm, TBA Weasel Dreams Quintet – Zorba’s 9:30pm, $3 Medeski Martin & Wood – The Canopy Club, 10pm, $20 20 Miles, Catfish Haven – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $8
DJ In the Red Room with DJ J-Phlip – Barfly, 9pm, free Julian “Jumpin” Perez, Mixin’ Marc, Bam Bam Budha – The Highdive, 9pm, $5 DJ Orby - Joe’s Brewery, 10 pm
DANCING New arrivals this week! Straight from LA!
Country Line Dance – Courtyard Cafe, 8pm
MUSIC PERFORMANCES UI Chamber Orchestra – features the world premiere of the winning composition of the UI Student Composition Contest and will include Schnittke’s Moz-Art a la Haydn, Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony (No. 45), and Gliére’s Concerto for Harp and Orchestra – Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $2-5
ON STAGE
One of the largest selection of International Foods in the Champaign Urbana Area!
Stocked with Latin products an other products from around the globe. Plus….frozen items from Asia
For people with International Tastes.
November Playhouse Dance – The Department of Dance presents solos and group works by Rachel Lampert, Helen Tamiris, Cynthia Pipkin-Doyle, Linda Lehovec, Elizabeth Johnson and Cathy Young. Guest dancer Dianne McIntyre joins faculty artists and students in the performance – Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $8-15 Story Theatre – a play for adults that everyone thought was for kids. Adapted by Paul Sills from Aesop’s fables and the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, the play uses children’s stories to mirror adult fears and foibles. Composed of 10 separate stories – Parkland Theatre, 8pm
FridayNov14 LIVE MUSIC
Expanded Selection of Natural, Organic, and Health Foods Now carrying a wide variety of health conscious items with more organic foods than ever before.
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Roger Clair – Cowboy Monkey, 5pm, free Brandon T. Washington – Iron Post, 5pm, TBA The Blackouts, Life at Sea, The Love Kill, The Situation – Cafe Paradiso, 6pm, $5 Bottle of Justus, Temple of Low Men, Lorenzo Goetz, Big Fur – The Canopy Club, 9pm, TBA Freestyle Smackdown Rapping Competition – Essohess, FACTA, Licwadatid, Akdamo – Channing Murray Foundation, 9pm, $3 Big Bang Theory – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $3 Jiggsaw, TBA – Iron Post, 10pm, $3 David Davenport – classic rock/oldies – Tommy G’s, 5-7pm Adam Wolf and Party Hounds – acoustic rock – Tommy G’s, 10pm-2am
Penny Dreadful Players presents “Come See My Shorts” – Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, $3
ON STAGE Anton in Show Business – this play follows the adventures of a Hollywood soap star, a jaded New Yorker, and an enthusiastic ingénue starring in a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters – Studio Theatre, Krannert Center, 7:30pm November Playhouse Dance – The Department of Dance presents solos and group works by Rachel Lampert, Helen Tamiris, Cynthia Pipkin-Doyle, Linda Lehovec, Elizabeth Johnson and Cathy Young. Guest dancer Dianne McIntyre joins faculty artists and students in the performance – Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $8-15 Story Theatre – a play for adults that everyone thought was for kids. Adapted by Paul Sills from Aesop’s fables and the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, the play uses children’s stories to mirror adult fears and foibles. Composed of 10 separate stories – Parkland Theatre, 8pm
SaturdayNov15 LIVE MUSIC The Vice Dolls, Missing in Action, Jiggsaw, RyefieldCrane, New Grenada, The Trembling, Failed Resistance, Missing the Point, Kate Hathaway, MJ Walker and Fictive Kin, Rory Miller, Ripley Caine, Jaik Willis, Gabe Rosen, Finite Element, Darrin Drda’s Theory of Everything - Channing Murray Foundation, 1pm, TBA The Bottle Rockets, Edward Burch – The Highdive, 7:30pm, $10 Candy Foster and Shades of Blue – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $3 Jeff and Vida Band – Iron Post, 10pm, TBA Slighty Stoopid, Lucky Boys Confusion – The Canopy Club, 10pm, TBA Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tim Kinsella, RoyG.Biv – Courtyard Cafe, TBA, $4 Mighty Groove Trio – Embassy Tavern, TBA, free Hot’N’Ready – Rose Bowl Tavern, 9pm Will Rogers – classic rock and country – Tommy G’s, 9pm1am Trouble IS –Rick’s Recreation & Pub, 8:30pm-12:30am Ted Leo and The Pharmacists , Tim Kinsella, Roy G. Biv – Courtyard Cafe, 8pm, $4
DJ DJ Hipster Sophisto – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Resonate – Mike ‘n Molly’s, 10pm, $1 DJ Tim Williams – The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5 DJ Naughty Boy – Joe’s Brewery DJ Stiffler – Lava, 9pm DJ Brad – T.K. Wendl’s, 8pm, free “G” Force DJ Chris – White Horse Inn, 10pm
SundayNov16 LIVE MUSIC Josh Caterer – Record Service, 3pm, free Writers in the Round: Mike Ingram, Kristi Kjeldsen, Dave Burdick, Adam Wolfe – Iron Post, 9pm, $3 The Blues Jam hosted by Kilborn Alley – The Canopy Club, 10pm, $2 Duvall, TBA, Jiggsaw – The Highdive, 10pm, $8 Crystal River – Rose Bowl Tavern, 8:30pm
DJ DJ Reflex, TBA – Barfly, 9pm, free Blends by Otter – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, free Reel to Reel and the Wheels of Steel: Spicerack Movies with soundtrack provided by DJ Spinnerty and DJ Bozak – Mike ‘n Molly’s, 10pm, $1
KARAOKE “G” Force Karaoke – T.K. Wendl’s, 9pm, free
SPOKEN WORD Open Mic – Poetry/Spoken Word hosted by Illusion - The Canopy Club, 7pm, $2
MUSIC PEFORMANCES Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi – Suor Angelica explores the heartbreak of a mother who learns of her child’s death. Gianni Schicchi examines greed with a light, comic touch – Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center, 7:30pm, $8-20 UI Philharmonica – interesting and exciting works from the symphony orchestra repertoire – Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center, 3pm, $2-5
ON STAGE Anton in Show Business – this play follows the adventures of a Hollywood soap star, a jaded New Yorker, and an enthusiastic ingénue starring in a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters – Studio Theatre, Krannert Center, 7:30pm Story Theatre – a play for adults that everyone thought was for kids. Adapted by Paul Sills from Aesop’s fables and the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, the play uses children’s stories to mirror adult fears and foibles. Composed of 10 separate stories – Parkland Theatre, 3pm
FILM Race in America Film Series – presented by News Gazette and UIUC – Virgina Theatre, 7pm, $5
THE RAPTURE Echoes Strummer/Universal
★★★★ BY LOGAN MOORE Have you ever seen a record collector dance? There are numerous permutations of this phenomenon and none of them are particularly attractive. It can range from wildly arrhythmic toe-tapping to that hopelessly Caucasian pursuit known as “pogoing.” In some extreme cases it will manifest itself as the tempestuous jerking, twitching and kicking of an epileptic monkey in a frantic attempt to simulate actual rhythm. Yet, just like Chinese food and most British bands, I believe that the hopeless flailing of hipsters
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and music geeks everywhere is actually much better than it looks. What’s the alternative, to sit there with your arms crossed and your eyes glazed over like a stoned test bunny, pretending that you’ve evolved beyond the plebian recreation of enjoying yourself? At this point in our country’s history, with leaders who fall asleep on oil slicks and pillows of cash whilst cradling their semi-automatics and dreaming up new ways to exploit the lower class I have an over-abundance of cynicism and a serious need for catharsis. Cue the ass shaking. Oh yeah. Spearheading the new groove nation are bands like The Rapture. I love these guys, and all their brethren, Radio 4, !!!, Out Hud and The Liars. So what if they’re copping a few moves from post-punksters like Wire and Gang of Four. Bands have been swiping from the Velvet Underground playbook for decades now and have been receiving nothing but the drooling praise of Rolling Stone critics everywhere. These fellows are just doing the same thing, building on the templates laid down by geniuses and recontextualizing them, expanding on the sound. Come on, arty, dissonant guitar riffs and funky bass work sound never sounded so good together. And on the Rapture’s debut, Echoes, it works to brilliant effect. The album starts off promisingly with the trancey “Olio”. Delicately plinked piano and keyboard blurps float over a solid thumping beat while Luke Jenner wails,“I called on you on the telephone / ‘cause I was lonely” like the drugged-out misanthrope at the back of the club. “I Need Your Love” is a great piece of … well, it sounds like “discorock” if that’s a term at all. Jenner pleads that he does in fact “need your love” as bells that seem lifted from a Donna Summer album toll in the background. “Heaven” and “The Coming of Spring” are both great raunchy slabs of post-punk madness, proving that The Rapture don’t necessarily need the bleeps and bloops of the DFA production team to get your attention. Still though, the album really hits its groovealicious high in the middle when all these elements come together. First up is the deservedly classic “House of Jealous Lovers”. Oh, how I love thee,“House of Jealous Lovers”, that echoey guitar,
Tribute albums
1. El Baile Aleman Senor Coconut
Kraftwerk: revolutionaries, innovators, dorks. All these definitions and more are appropriate for the German band that gave birth to electronic music and influenced rock and hip hop for years to come. How better to honor one of the most important bands in the history of music than to create a Latin tribute album? Senor Coconut (Uwe Schmidt to his German parents), somehow manages to create humorous versions of Kraftwerk classics like “Trans Europe Express” and “Tour De France.” But no fears, this isn’t some kind of Weird Al experience. Musically, El Baile Aleman is top notch as well.Not only did it resonate with music fans with a sense of humor, but the electronic scene praised it as well.
2. Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons
The story of Gram Parsons and his influence on music is far greater than the space alotted for this write-up. He is often attributed with creating and mastering the genre of country
that bassline which kicks in and does make the Chemical Brothers cream their irrelevant pants, and that cowbell, oh, that’s good cowbell. Then the boys proceed to follow it up with the even more frantic but just as deliciously danceable title track. Someone should just hand bassist Mattie Safer an award right now; the man knows how to make take it to the bridge. And let us not forget “Sister Christian,”a song that virtually bridges the rift between post-punk and new-wave that occurred in the late 1970s. It’s like partying with Blondie and The Fall or Joy Division and Duran Duran. There are a few weak tracks on Echoes, but it sells at a permanent discount around 10 bucks. Treat it like a kick-inthe-ass EP, invite your friends over and dance like drunken madmen all night long. Come on, you know you’re tired of being cool, all you really wanna do is shake what your mother gave you.
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rock or early alt-country. Parsons was a member of several influential bands including The International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo is cosidered by some to be the first altcountry album and Parsons was a large part of that album. On this tribute, alt-country and folk-rock stars of the 1990s (like Whiskeytown, Wilco, Lucinda Williams and The Cowboy Junkies) pay tribute to him.
3. Third Eye Open: A String Tribute to Tool
Tool are amazing. They are one of those bands that never cease to create interesting and unique music on all their albums. Their love of dynamics is one of their strengths as they often take a song down to the nether regions of near silence then explode with Maynard’s token wails of pure rock. On this album you find a more subdued example of what Tool can sound like. It may not feature the masterful vocals of Maynard but it does focus on the melodies and dynamcs of Tool’s music that allows the listener to appreciate the depth of Tool’s songwriting skills. With only a septet of performers on this CD, they manage to encapsulate all the sounds of a Tool song to perfection.
4. Plastic Mutations: An Electronic Tribute to Radiohead
All you indie snobs trying to “be cool” and get some cred by hating on Radiohead can just stop it. The fact of the matter is that people are going to be making tribute albums to Radiohead for decades to come. This 2001 effort won’t be the best one of all time, but for now it is an impressive effort. Including a triphop, female vocal led version of “Fake Plastic Trees” and other electronic covers of songs through the band’s history, it is a unique take on a genuinely unique band.
5. A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC Hayseed Dixie
Look at this formula:Take one of mankind’s hardest rocking bands and let some hillbilly band have at performing hits like “Back in Black.” Smart, funny and completely unique, it is a tribute that has to be heard to believed.
PARASOL RECORDS TOP 10 SELLERS 1. Guided By Voices - Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (Matador) 2. Moonbabies - The Orange Billboard (A Hidden Agenda) 3. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jetset) 4. The Minders - The Future Is Always Perfect (Future Farmer) 5. Poster Children - No More Songs About Sleep and Fire (A Hidden Agenda) 6. Wheat - Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second (Aware) 7. The Ladybug Transistor - The Ladybug Transistor (Merge) 8. M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Grooom Records - France) 9. The Thrills - So Much For The City (Virgin) 10. Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade)
RECORD SERVICE TOP 10 SELLERS 1. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll (Lost Highway) 2. The Strokes - Room On Fire (RCA) 3. Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell Pt. 2 (EP) (Lost Highway) 4. Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow (Arista) 5. Ben Folds - Sunny 16 6. Anti-Flag - Terror State (Fat Wreck Chords) 7. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catasrophe Waitress (Sanctuary Records) 8. John Mayer - Heavier Things (Sony) 9. Guided By Voices - The Best of Guided By Voices: Human Amusement At Hourly Rates (Matador Records) 10. Lucky Boys Confusion - Commitment (Elektra)
NEW RELEASES Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert Biz Markie - Weekend Warrior Britney Spears - In the Zone Flaming Lips - Ego-Tripping at the Gates of Hell G Unit - Beg for Mercy Cyndi Lauper - At Last Linkin Park - Live in Texas Al Green - I Can’t Stop Ben Harper - Live Moby - 18 B-sides blink-182 - blink-182 Timbaland & Magoo Under Construction Part II
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“G” Force Karaoke – Lincoln Castle, 9pm, free
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DJ Bozak – Barfly, 9pm, free DJ Tim Williams – The Highdive, 10:30pm, $5 DJ Mertz – Joe’s Brewery, 10 pm DJ Chad – T.K. Wendl’s, 8pm, free
COMEDY
LIVE MUSIC
Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company presents “Follies” – Starring Mark Roberts – Virginia Theatre
Liz Phair, Wheat – Foellinger Auditorium, 7:30pm, $19.50 Openingbands.com Showcase: Rollercoaster Club, TBA – The Canopy Club, 10pm, $3 Hammel on Trial, Larry Gates – Cowboy Monkey, 10pm, $5 Finga Lickin – The Office, 10pm, free Billy Galt & Ed O’Hara – White Horse Inn, 10pm, free Acoustic Eidolon – acoustic/instrumental duo from
Register at the Bresnan Meeting Center 706 Kenwood Road, Champaign.
“G” Force Karaoke – Lincoln Castle, 9pm, free
KARAOKE
MUSIC PERFORMANCES Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra – concert moves from the profane to the sacred, from music
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COMEDY
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde – Moisés Kaufman presents the story of how Oscar Wilde went from the toast of the town with two smash hits playing to packed houses (The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband), to complete humiliation and utter scorn – Studio Theatre, Krannert Center, 7:30pm November Playhouse Dance – The Department of Dance presents solos and group works by Rachel Lampert, Helen Tamiris, Cynthia Pipkin-Doyle, Linda Lehovec, Elizabeth Johnson and Cathy Young. Guest dancer Dianne McIntyre joins faculty artists and students in the performance – Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center, 7:30pm Story Theatre – a play for adults that everyone thought was for kids. Adapted by Paul Sills from Aesop’s fables and the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales, the play uses children’s stories to mirror adult fears and foibles. Composed of 10 separate stories – Parkland Theatre, 8pm
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