04 Jan 2005

Soundtracks Plentiful to Start New Year

By John James
• With a rush of new films opening over the next few weeks, nearly a dozen soundtracks hit store shelves this Tuesday. From sublime scores to the infectious beat of Punjabi wedding songs, all sorts of soundtracks are itching to get in between your ears and extend the film experience.
28 Dec 2004

Some of 2004's Under-Appreciated Gems

By Administrator
This year saw justified buzz around Franz Ferdinand, the long-overdue rise of Modest Mouse, a Jack White-aided comeback by Loretta Lynn, a mildly successful punk-rock concept album from Green Day, a commercial resurgence from Prince, a shockingly good posthumous release from Elliott Smith, and the celebrated return of Brian Wilson with the long-shelved Smile.
28 Dec 2004

Power-Pop Artists Drive the Cars

By John James
• This Tuesday the power-pop purveyors at Not Lame Records are releasing a new tribute to The Cars entitled Substitution Mass Confussion. As a salute to Cars bassist Benjamin Orr, who died of cancer in 2000, the CD benefits the American Cancer Society.
20 Dec 2004

Friends of Chamber Music Gives Community Holiday Concert

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
Celebrating its golden-jubilee season, the Friends of Chamber Music of Davenport gave its annual Holiday Concert at the Butterworth Center in Moline on December 17. The Friends gave this wonderful free concert as a gift to the community.
20 Dec 2004

The Best Music of 2004

By John James
From "lip-stinking" to iPod envy, this past year was another whirlwind of technology gone wild and taste often misplaced. Bob Dylan went from hawking Victoria's Secret to his new signature wine, Planet Waves, and while perhaps better suited to sponsor a line of rolling papers, the Doobie Brothers followed suit with their own private label, Doobie Red.
14 Dec 2004

This Blanket Continues to Grow

By Jeff Ignatius
Loud drums and a driving guitar kick off the album, and from most bands, this would hardly be remarkable. But coming at the beginning of a record from The Winter Blanket, it’s downright shocking. After all, this is a group whose sound rarely eclipses the musical equivalent of a whisper, following in the delicate, subdued, austere slowcore tradition of Low.
14 Dec 2004

Rock Posters Top List of Year's Best Music Books

By Administrator
'Tis the season to shake off the cold and retreat under the comfort of hot chocolate, lots of blankets, and a good book. An armload of cool new selections are worth snuggling up with, aiming to feed your head and pop-culture addictions.
07 Dec 2004

Guest Conductor Leads Symphony Through Demanding Program

By Abbie Dombrock
With a flick of the wrist and a sweeping downbeat, guest conductor Catherine Comet led the Quad City Symphony Orchestra into the first strains of its concert on Saturday, December 4. The musicians, under the graceful yet commanding baton of Comet, performed Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C and Aaron Copland’s Symphony No.
07 Dec 2004

Willie Nelson Finally Brings His Ageless Act to the Quad Cities

By Jeff Ignatius
He toured minor-league baseball parks with Bob Dylan earlier this year. His latest album puts Tom Waits material next to Toby Keith’s, and includes duets with the popular jazz crooner Norah Jones and the ever-respected alt-country goddess Lucinda Williams.
07 Dec 2004

New Hipster Christmas CDs Restore the Holiday Spirit

By John James
The culture war is rising like my heating bill. Macy's and other Federated department stores have banned "Merry Christmas" from their customer greetings this season, so as not to offend. All references to Christmas are being stripped from public spaces, replaced with candy canes (sugar!), snowmen, and foil-wrapped presents (buy now!).

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