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Dominique Stevenson has been a very public figure in Bloomington-Normal this year. He founded the youth-based Next Gen Initiative. The social-justice…
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Rapper and visual artist Grill Billyenz of Normal says the darker industrial sound on his latest album "Metamorph" comes from the ghost-town feeling he…
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You never know what you’ll hear traveling Highway 309, but what you do hear ... will be good.Folk, pop, rock, soul, gospel, Americana, jazz, blues (and…
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You never know what you’ll hear traveling Highway 309, but what you do hear ... will be good.Folk, pop, rock, soul, gospel, Americana, jazz, blues (and…
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Springfield native Mary Jo Curry and her band are receiving much critical acclaim and airplay for their sophomore blues album "Front Porch." It’s an…
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Releasing a new album during the coronavirus pandemic has a silver lining for the bluesy Peoria roots-rock trio Hoosier Daddy.Cindy Youngren and Dave…
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Necessity really was the mother of invention for the Bloomington-based funk-rock band NoRobot.Six years after forming as a six-piece band, the now trio…
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought the live music scene to a screeching halt.Peoria-based Jay Goldberg Events and the affiliated Canopy Club in…
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Bloomington Americana singer/songwriter Edward David Anderson says his new "Live and Solo" album intentionally tried to capture where he's at in his…
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Blues guitarist and singer/songwriter Ana Popovic said she mentally worked to overcome doubt when she crashed the male-dominated blues scene two decades…