Wednesday 2/01 WWHP Presents “An Acoustic Cafe Evening” Tour hosted by Carrie Rodriguez
WED 2/01… WWHP PRESENTS: AN ACOUSTIC CAFE TOUR
SUN 2/06… DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS w/THREEBIRD
SAT 2/11… SUPERSUCKERS w/SPITTIN’ COBRAS
TUE 2/14… WPGU PRESENTS: STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS
THU 3/01… ZOSO (PRESENTED BY JAY GOLDBERG EVENTS)
SAT 3/03… 5TH ANNUAL BELLIES FOR LIFE BENEFIT DANCE
SUN 3/04… THE LIFE AND TIMES w/WITHERSHINS
WED 3/07… REVEREND HORTON HEAT w/GODDAMN GALLOWS
FRI 3/09… WWHP PRESENTS: FRED EAGLESMITH
MON 3/26… WPCD PRESENTS: CURSIVE w/CYMBALS EAT GUITARS
TUE 4/03… MOUNTAIN SPROUT
SAT 4/28… WWHP PRESENTS: BAND OF HEATHENS
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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1st… AN ACOUSTIC CAFE EVENING TOUR
Doors Open 6:00pm
Pieta Brown 7:00pm
Kelly Joe Phelps 8:00pm
Carrie Rodriguez 9:00pm
(order subject to change)
$15.00 online only (and $15.00 at the door)
SPONSORED BY WWHP 98.3 THE WHIP
This year’s version of the An Acoustic Café Evening Tour features Pieta Brown, Carrie Rodriguez, and Kelly Joe Phelps. Each evening is hosted by Carrie Rodriguez who explains the evening and how it will flow. The order of artist appearances on stage changes every night at the whim of the artists and the promoters. Each act performs a solo set that may or may not include some musical or vocal help from the other acts… each night is a detour, an exploration. The constants are that the artists all enjoy themselves and each other, that they all play together for an encore at the end of the night, and that the audiences get an intimate, affordable, often amazing live experience featuring great solo artists collaborating live together.
“Hailed by Lucinda Williams, recruited by Alejandro Escovedo, and nurtured by Lyle Lovett, singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling new voices on the roots-rock scene.” (The Boston Globe)
www.carrierodriguez.com
www.kellyjoephelps.com
www.pietabrown.com
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 6TH… DAVINA AND THE VAGABONDS
Doors Open 7:00pm
ThreeBird 7:30-8:00pm
Davina & The Vagabonds 8:15-9:25pm
Davina & The Vagabonds 9:45-11:00pm
(80’s Night/DJ Mingram 11:00pm)
$8.00 at the door only (NO advance tickets)
“Hardest-working Blues woman in Minnesota, with two things remaining consistent at all her shows… her throaty but cushiony voice, which has a sort of hard-mattress comfort to it that’s part Bonnie Raitt, part Etta James and a little Amy Winehouse… and her band’s rollicking New Orleans flavor, driven home by dueling horn players and a bayou-thick standup bass.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“Davina Sowers is many women in one: Betty Boop, Mae West, rollicking blues-tinged pianist, vaudevillian show-off.” (Washington Post Express)
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11TH… SUPERSUCKERS
Doors/Bar Open 7:00pm
Spittin’ Cobras 8:00-8:40pm
Supersuckers 9:00-10:30pm
$15.00 online only (and $15.00 at the door)
Eddie Spaghetti (Vocals, Bass)
Dan ‘Thunder’ Bolton (Guitar, Vocals)
‘Metal’ Marty Chandler (Guitar, Vocals)
Scott ‘Scottzilla’ Churilla (Drums)
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“If you don’t like the Supersuckers, you don’t like Rock-N-Roll.”
(Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead)
www.supersuckers.com
www.spittincobras.com
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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14TH… STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS
Doors/Bar Open 7:00pm
Katrina 7:30-7:55pm
Chris Koza 8:05-8:45pm
SK6ERS 9:00-10:30pm
$15.00 online only (and $15.00 at the door)
PRESENTED BY WPGU 107.1
On Gift Horse, their second album for Vanguard and fifth studio effort overall, Stephen Kellogg and his bandmates – Kit “Goose” Karlson (keys, bass, vocals), Brian “Boots” Factor (drums, vocals) and Sam “Steamer” Getz (guitars, vocals) – bring the rich legacy of American rock & roll into the present tense. This is thrilling music, muscular, immediate and life-embracing, steeped in tradition but addressing the present moment boldly and eloquently. To get to this point in their evolution, SK6ERS (as their loyal fans fondly refer to them) simply had to come to terms with their collective identity once and for all, and producer Mark Weinberg had a hand in getting them there.
“Every time you make a record, you learn a whole bunch of new things, and this was no different,” says Kellogg, who formed the Sixers with Karlson and Factor eight years ago in Western Massachusetts. “When we met with Mark, he encouraged us to be unapologetic about who we are, not masking our influences but embracing them and running with it. He kept reminding us, ‘You’re not gonna be Bob Seger if you spend your whole life trying. You’re Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, so just play this music the way you write, from your hearts.’”
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THURSDAY MARCH 1ST… ZOSO: THE ULTIMATE LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE
Doors/Bar Open 8:30pm
ZOSO 10:00pm-12:30am
PRESENTED BY JAY GOLDBERG EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT
$8.00 online only (and $8.00 at the door)
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In February 1995, ZOSO, The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience was brought together in Los Angeles, California. Bound and determined to create the most mesmerizing and accurate portrayal of the original band, each individual member was selected to portray both the image and playing styles of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones. Together the quartet pays homage with its powerful and unmistakable Zeppelin sound.
Since its conception ZOSO has played a remarkable 2000 shows (and counting) in just under eleven years. Their passion, musical ability, showmanship and “we don’t cancel” attitude has made them America’s #1 certified Led Zeppelin show. If you missed Led Zeppelin live in the 70′s or are looking for a great chance to relive the Music, Magic and Mystery of Zeppelin, you must experience ZOSO. The sound and visual effects will astound you and bring you back to the “Hammer of Gods” era (from 1968-1980).
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SATURDAY MARCH 3TH… 6TH ANNUAL BELLIES FOR LIFE BENEFIT/DANCE
Doors/Bar Open 6:00pm
Bellies For Life 7:00-9:00pm
$10.00 in advance
($7.00 with student ID)
$15.00 at the door
TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA PANGEA WEB LINK BELOW
Bellies For Life is an annual all belly dance breast cancer fundraiser. Thanks to the special amazingly supportive community in Champaign-Urbana, almost everything required for this night is either donated or accounted for by volunteers (dancers, emcee, doorman, camera man etc). This minimizes the costs and maximizes the total donation. Other than money that BFL strives to raise, via this festive event, breast cancer awareness and encourage young women to perform self exams. This is a night of fun and entertainment, all the while for a extraordinary good cause.
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SUNDAY MARCH 4TH… THE LIFE AND TIMES
Doors/Bar Open 8:00pm
Alpha Mile 8:30-9:00pm
Withershins 9:20-10:00pm
The Life And Times 10:20-11:30pm
$8.00 at the door only (NO advance tickets)
The Magician EP (Stiff Slack), TLAT’s fourth overall release, is a fad-free snapshot of a band that’s constantly morphing from a dragon, to a butterfly, to blinding white light, to a bird, to Godzilla, and back again, often within the space of just one song. RIYLs don’t do the band justice from a recorded or live standpoint, but suffice it to say that the sound on the Magician EP puts them in company with artists like Pink Floyd, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Built to Spill and just a pinch of early U2.
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 7TH… REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Doors/Bar Open 7:00pm
Goddamn Gallows 8:00pm
Larry And His Flask 9:00pm
Reverend Horton Heat 10:00pm
$20.00 in advance (and $22.00 at the door)
Without a doubt, the mighty Reverend has won a cult following around the world these past 20+ years with a nearly endless touring ethic and musical style that’s equally as rooted in tradition as it is in breaking it. He’s one of the lynchpins of the neo-roots movement and responsible for moving the genre forward and garnering it a whole new generation of fans. Mix that with a mythic stage presence and you’ve got a live act that turns rock clubs into psychobilly tent-revivals across the country 300 days a year.
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FRIDAY MARCH 9TH… FRED EAGLESMITH
Doors/Bar Open 6:00pm
Bill Poss And The Useful Tools 7:00-7:30pm
The Fabulous Ginn Sisters 7:50-8:30pm
Fred Eaglesmith 8:50-10:30pm
$12.00 in advance (and $15.00 at the door)
PRESENTED BY WWHP “THE WHIP” 98.3
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and bandleader Fred Eaglesmith is a genuine iconoclast and true original. It’s the natural result of following the cue of his musical career and now 19 albums with the January 2012 release of 6 Volts. The result is one of the most fascinating and musically rewarding careers in contemporary music.
As he has doggedly gone his own way as an independent musical artist, Eaglesmith has also enjoyed such high profile rewards in recent years as having his songs covered by country superstars Toby Keith, Alan Jackson and Miranda Lambert, among many other accomplishments.
6 Volts is yet another landmark on a journey. The album takes its title from the battery that powered the game-changing transistor radio – introduced in 1954, the same year that rock-n-roll emerged into popular consciousness – and embodies the notion of back to the future. Captured live in the studio with one microphone onto a one-track reel to reel recorder like so many enduring classics, 6 Volts also bristles with contemporary urgency.
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MONDAY MARCH 26… CURSIVE
Doors/Bar Open 7:00pm
Conduits 7:30-8:00pm
Cymbals Eat Guitars 8:20-9:00pm
Cursive 9:20-10:30pm
(DJ/80’s Night 11:00pm)
PYGMALION SPRING SHOW SERIES PRESENTED BY WPCD 88.7
$12.00 in advance (and $15.00 at the door)
Cursive is the longtime trio of Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass), and Ted Stevens (guitar, vocals), with Patrick Newbery (keys) and Cully Symington
(drums). I Am Gemini (out February 21, 2012 via Saddle Creek), the band’s seventh LP, is the follow-up to 2009’s critically praised Mama, I’m Swollen, which caught the attention of publications including Alternative Press, Billboard, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Time Out New York, among others, and earned the band their network television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman. Cursive has released six full-length albums – including the heralded Cursive’s Domestica (2000), The Ugly Organ (2003), and Happy Hollow (2006) – two EPs, a disc of rarities, and numerous singles since the band’s 1995 inception.
The band is also known for their vital, magnetic live show, earning rave reviews from outlets including the Cleveland Scene’s C-Note music blog (”[Tim Kasher’s] effect on the crowd was chilling last night…Cursive was focused and on-spot, composed and gripping”), Nuvo Weekly (“…the five-piece slashed through a near-perfect set of songs from their last nine years of albums”), and the Orlando Sentinel’s Soundboard blog (“…the band still knows how to rock on stage…[Cursive] thrashed away with an abandon that heightened the passion of Kasher’s dense, emotionally charged wordplay.”).
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TUESDAY APRIL 3RD… MOUNTAIN SPROUT
Doors/Bar Open 8:00pm
To Be Announced 9:00pm
Mountain Sprout 10:00pm
$10.00 online only (and $10.00 at the door)
The Mountain Sprout Band is the most authentic modern Ozark music available today. Hailing from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, four incredible musicians work seemlessly to bring forward the kind of bass thumping, banjo picking, guitar playing, fiddle shredding, that makes you get and stomp your feet. The lyrics present a variety of stories and jokes that resonate with drunk and sober listeners alike. If you are a hillbilly, a good ‘ol boy, or just a finely crafted music lover, Mountain Sprout is not to be missed! (KC MO News)
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SATURDAY APRIL 28TH… AN EVENING WITH BAND OF HEATHENS
Doors/Bar Open 7:00pm
Band Of Heathens 8:00-10:00pm
$10.00 in advance (and $12.00 at the door)
PRESENTED BY WWHP “THE WHIP” 98.3
The guys in the Band Of Heathens are fond of saying they became a unit by accident. But that’s like saying the Big Bang was an accident. Unplanned, maybe, but hardly random. One might even argue that a kind of destiny was involved. The merger of singer/songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Ed Jurdi, Gordy Quist and Colin Brooks, with bassist Seth Whitney and drummer John Chipman, from their respective solo careers and bands may not be akin to a cosmic explosion, but their album, One Foot in the Ether, offers irrefutable evidence that they were meant to be together — and have evolved into a solid entity worthy of the comparisons they receive to the Black Crowes, the Band and Little Feat.
The Americana Music Association’s 2010 list of Top 100 Albums of the Year found Band of Heathens “One Foot In The Ether” slotted in at #7!