Band Spotlight | Thursday, May 31,2012

The Sun and The Sea

From the ashes, rise again, goes the old saying, and with the 2011 demise of The Graduate, a local band done good, comes another group called The Sun and The Sea. Members Tim Moore (drums), Matt Kenne

Band Spotlight | Thursday, May 24,2012

Bobby Conn

By Tom Irwin

Based out of Chicago, Bobby Conn considers music to be a vehicle for entertainment and puts on a wild and woolly show to prove it. Along with this valuable contribution to stage antics, he backs it up

Band Spotlight | Wednesday, May 16,2012

Reverend Raven & the Chain Smoking Altar Boys

By Tom Irwin

Considered one of the finest traditional sounding, electric Chicago blues bands working the Midwest, the group, featuring the right Reverend on guitar and vocals, P.T. Pedersen SC on bass, Bobby Lee S

Band Spotlight | Thursday, May 10,2012

Javier Mendoza and Reis Kloeckener

By Tom Irwin

These St. Louis performers are making a splash in the music business as young and ready up and comers. Reis made a quick transition from singing in church and school choirs to becoming a 2012 American

Band Spotlight | Thursday, May 3,2012

7Horse

By Tom Irwin

Rock veterans Joie Calio and Phil Leavitt decided one day to wander from their successful venture known as dada, a group responsible for popularly known songs like “Dizz Knee Land” and &ld

Band Spotlight | Thursday, April 26,2012

Two Trick Pony

By Tom Irwin

Using Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, the Crystals and Buddy Holly from days of yore, plus a mishmash of more modern cuts from the Ramones and the Misfits, Two Trick

Band Spotlight | Thursday, April 19,2012

Thin Ice

By Tom Irwin

Joe Cooke, a staple as one the area’s finest classic-rocking blues guitarists for decades, joins Rick Wass on bass and Steve Kelton on drums, former members of the Havana Ducks and other bands,

Band Spotlight | Thursday, April 12,2012

The Vile Impurity

By Tom Irwin

Within the vast genre of modern metal bands, The Vile Impurity plays “tech-death metal” promising, as a lyric states, “Devastation which you will never forget!” From origins in

Band Spotlight | Thursday, April 5,2012

Ben Samples aka SAMPLES

By Tom Irwin

Killinoize Productions of Springfield and Subsequent Vibes of Bloomington began a music series at Bar None several months ago and the success of the venture points to the growing popularity of electro

Band Spotlight | Thursday, March 29,2012

SOMA

By Tom Irwin

What happens when you take a batch of well-seasoned local musicians and combine them into a brand new concoction? Go see for yourself as SOMA breaks into the Springfield scene with its first full-on p