WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - March 11, 2013
Tuesday is a big one for music: the release of the first David Bowie album in a decade. Most fans and critics are very excited - the owners of the record shop Exile on Main Street are even having a special 'David Bowie Day,' with the mayor of Champaign performing The Thin White Duke's hits, along with many other local musicians. But some people aren't so enthuasiastic. Jim DeRogatis was the rock music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times for years, and is one of the long-time hosts of Sound Opinions, a nationally syndicated public radio show. Count him as a Bowie skeptic. DeRogatis joins us to discuss Bowie's new record, 'The Next Day,' and the nostalgia trap that he sees many critics falling into.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - February 27, 2013
Singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman is coming through Illinois this week. Alex Molotkow, the senior editor of Hazlitt Magazine, joins us to discuss Richman's career and to pick out three of his most essential songs.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - September 20, 2011 ~
With Seth Fein (Festival Organizer)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - September 03, 2011 ~
With Bridget Lee Calfas (Public Information Director, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - September 02, 2011 ~
Refuge", to be sung by the Black Chorus, Sunday, September 11, 7:46 AM CDT, Smith Memorial Recital Hall, University of Illinois
With Ollie Watts Davis, D.M.A. (Professor of Voice, School of Music; University Scholar 2008; Director of the Black Chorus, Univeristy of Illinois)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - April 01, 2011 ~
With Sally Takada Bernhardsson ( Executive Director, DoCha / Downtown Champaign Chamber Music)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - December 29, 2010 ~
With Michael Cheney (Professor of Communication and Liberal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - September 23, 2010 ~
With Seth Fein (Organizer of the Pygmalion Music Festival)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - August 19, 2010 ~
With Jim Lovensheimer (Musicologist)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - March 30, 2010 ~
With Rich Warren (Host of the Midnight Special on WFMT and WILL-AM)
