18 Jan 2005

Two Releases Already Look Like the Best of 2005

By John James
How do two new releases in January already feel like "best of 2005" contenders? More satisfying with each repeated listening, two new CDs hitting store shelves this Tuesday have dominated my stereo for the past few weeks, and I'm not ready to hit "eject" yet.
18 Jan 2005

Singer-Songwriter Digs Beneath the Surface

By John Friedrich
Amy Martin, a folk musician now living in Montana, is returning to her native Iowa to perform in Davenport this Saturday, January 22, at the River City Music Experience. Martin, who grew up on a farm near Preston, headed west from Chicago with guitar in hand in 1999.
11 Jan 2005

Opera Company Pleased with Early Progress

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
Ron May, the founding president of the City Opera Company of the Quad Cities, said he wants his organization, now in its fourth year, to open the world of opera to everybody - both performers and audiences.
11 Jan 2005

Sauer and Canin Masterful in Chamber-Music Concert

By Abbie Dombrock
Quad Cities native Thomas Sauer gave voice to the piano and his wife, Serena Canin, made the violin sing at a concert hosted by Chamber Music Quad Cities on January 2, at the Unitarian Church in Davenport. Sauer and Canin, both of whom are music teachers and performers from New York, showed their masterful technique and musicianship to a receptive audience of almost 100 people.
11 Jan 2005

Old Favorites Return with New CDs

By John James
• Hot off the heels of the third volume in KCRW-FM's Sounds Eclectic CD series, Boston's WBOS-FM has just released the second CD in its 92.9 Live from the Archives series of artists performing intimate tunes live in the studio.
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.

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