Festival season is upon us! We’ve done all the re-con on the hottest weekend concerts of the summer
Summer Camp When: May 23-26 Where: Three Sisters Park – Chillicothe, IL Who: moe., Umphrey’s McGee, Trey Anastasio Band, EOTO, STS9, Zeds Dead, Big Gigantic, Diplo, Griz What to expect: Funky jam-band lovers, ‘scamp’ lifers, lots of dreads and Grassroots hats; look for the glowstick path into the forest and come Monday morning watch for [...]
Read More →Daft Punk breaks silence… kind of.
Despite their work on the score of Disney movie “Tron: Legacy,” that now seems like merely a blip in music time, French robot-duo Daft Punk is now ready to party with us. And a funky, disco party we shall have! The release of a new album Random Access Memories is on its way, and after [...]
Read More →Fate of Chicago’s Congress Theater to be decided Tuesday morning
After the threat of an emergency shutdown last week, one of the city’s most historic venues scrambles to reconcile “hazardous and dangerous conditions” On Friday, Chicago attorneys asked a judge for the immediate shutdown of one of the most important concert venues in the area, citing dangerous conditions that may cancel several tour dates [...]
Read More →COD student rapper known as Spirit of Truth, promotes “awareness and awakening”with self-produced album debut
I’ll be totally honest; usually when people send me music I can anticipate Garage Band loops for six minutes, but Spirit of Truth’s Spiritual Warfare album production is total quality. But don’t just take my word for it; the comment section of the album’s UGHH.com page (Underground Hip Hop) is brimming with praise. The [...]
Read More →Your Emails, My Answer: What’s a DJ set anyway?
Festival season is just around the corner and it is beyond awesome that I have been receiving emails from students asking me to teach them a little bit about the dance music world. Friends, here are the Cliff Notes of Electronica 101. Far too much time had past since we had seen our favorite glow-in-the-dark [...]
Read More →Swedish House Mafia’s ‘One Last Tour’ in pictures
Wednesday night, Swedish House Mafia lit up the United Center. Our A&E Editor was there to be your eyes & ears on the group’s first (and last) tour stop in Chicago. Here is a little bit of what the concert looked like in pictures… Did you miss it? Search CODcourier on Spotify to listen [...]
Read More →Starving Artist Joel Janchenko
Joel Janchenko Major: Associates of Fine Art Age: 20 City: Indian Head Park How would you describe your art? Art and music are a culmination of creativity and I search for the exploration of sound to see what boundaries have been crossed, what history has been written and what hasn’t been developed yet. It’s [...]
Read More →More than 200 students performing in concert marks a start of season for music department
Don’t miss the Student Music Concert on Thursday, October 18 at 7:30pm in the Turner Conference Center in the SRC building. This show marks the start of the season of performances for the music department and also displays some of the college’s talented musicians. Music Professor Lee Kesselman said, “Mid-semester is a great time to [...]
Read More →Geographer
Nathan Blaz: Cello, synthesizers Mike Deni: vocals, guitar, keyboards Brian Ostreicher: Drums, synthesizers Q: How did Geographer get started? A: I met Kacey Johansing, a friend of Brian and Nate’s from college, at an open mic in San Francisco when I first moved here. She and I started playing music together under the name Parasol, [...]
Read More →Black Burn Soul
Name: Jake Kramer Age: 20 School: (interested in becoming sound technician) Instrument: guitar &singing Name: David Lawrence Age: 20 School: COD (music) Instrument: drums Name: Mike Bettcher Age: 20 School: COD (firefighting classes) Instrument: bass Genre: hard rock Major influences? Jake: Stevie Ray Vaughn, a lot of blues, Guns’N’Roses David: Led [...]
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