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Songsmith Keller Williams pieced layers of music together into cadent compilations of sound for a sold-out crowd Sunday at the Canopy Club in Champaign. Accompanied onstage by nine guitars, several keyboards, electronic drums, a Theremin and more, Williams did not face the crowd of college-aged jam band fans alone.
The Tarble Art Center's walls are once again peppered with student art. The All-Student Art Show was unveiled for the two-hour award reception held March 6, which served primarily to honor students who exhibited and won the coveted yearly awards. Art education professor Patricia Belleville said 83 student artists' works were on display for the yearly All-Student Art Show exhibit, which has been on display in Tarble since 1982.
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, The Verge wants to commemorate our staffers emerald favorites. Things that shouldn't be green, but are - Green ketchup - Shamrock Shakes at McDonalds - The Chicago River (well, greener than normal) - Green beer, which means green mouths and eventually shirts and jeans Things they should consider making green - The grass on campus - The Life Science Building or Klehm Hall (partly because Klehm rhymes with phlegm) Famous Greens - O'Brien Field astroturf - Kermit the Frog - The ivy at Wrigley Field - Wrigley Spearmint gum - Oscar the Grouch - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Brian Austin Green - The Green Party - Green Peace - Green Day - The Jolly Green Giant - Tom Green - Seth Green - Soylent Green (the film) - Soilent Green (the band) - "The Green Fairy" also known as absinthe - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" edited by J.
After struggling with the music industry in a time when Limp Bizkit, Offspring and Korn were all that label heads wanted to hear, Matt Jernigan's manager-pitched the idea of forming a Led Zeppelin tribute band. According to Jernigan, the manager already thought they sounded a lot like Zeppelin, so they may as well give it a chance.
Menomena are the freshest-of-fresh breaths in music that you could possibly ask for. Menomena is a band that cannot possibly be defined, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. In Menomena's first release "I Am the Fun Blame Monster," they prove that it is possible to be an extremely complicated band, but also be as accessible as anything around.
Kasabian has been tearing up the British charts for the past year and are getting ready to invade America with their trans-rhythmic beats and over-confident attitude. With influences of legendary bands like Led Zeppelin and The Who, these four young chaps from Leicester, UK, are, without a doubt, the next big British band to take America since Oasis.
Joni Laurence tore her wings off of barbed wire to fly into Jackson Avenue Coffee Friday night to sing folk music in honor of Women's History and Awareness Month. "We thought that she was a female artist and that her songs are often about women's issues or empowerment or for that reason we thought she fit with WHAM," said Jad Smith, an English professor who organized the show.
