This past Friday night, the intellectuals went to the Beaumont Club, and the people that really wanted to rock were at the City Market.
Scott SpychalskiHow many of these kids have actually been to the Steamboat Arabia Museum?
96.5 The Buzz kicked off their Buzz Under the Stars concert series with the Offspring's The Shit Is Fucked Up Tour, with opening support from the kinda-Christian alternative band Anberlin, suburban Chicago punk three-piece Alkaline Trio, the angsty platinum-selling the Us
No lie -- it's been fun writing about Josephine Collective. Over the past few years, the screechy emo pop band from Johnson County developed a sizable -- mostly teenage -- fanbase, got signed to a major label, experienced a little backlash, partied hard and (some members) exhibited occasional signs of egomania. But it's all over now.
Well, the Collective part is, anyway.
After hearing a rumor that a Beaumont gig last weekend was JoCo's final bow, I rang up singer Alexander Sandate, who co