Alternative Rock

Indie rockers Josiah King and Caleb Durian formed their basement band Cats and Dragons in Geneseo as high schoolers. Now students at ISU, they're circulating the underground live music scene with a five-piece band that'll battle it out next week at the Castle Theatre.

Sweet is working on his 16th studio album, but doesn't mind that people love hearing the old stuff.

Grant Milliren, now 21, was getting serious about music by his mid-teens. But the Illinois State University arts technology student was also a varsity…