C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: “They may not look like much, but they’ve got it where it counts, kid.” ~ Han Solo on the new Third Stone gag video promoting this year’s Red Hot Summerfest at Cowboy Monkey and SOMA Ultralounge

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: No need anymore to rely solely on iPods and ear buds to hear the best of local indie rock and rap, kids! The new UI-7 show CU HEADPHONES has you covered with Elsinore and everyone else.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: A pair of deep summer teen lovers attempt to reconcile recent past with present in the new music video “Never Meant,” produced by Chris Strong and set to an American Football song from 1999. Yes, 1999.

Two hours from now, a cascade of confidential cinema will course across the screen of the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, courtesy of the fifth New Art Film Festival on Sunday, April 13, 2014!

The Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, Illinois, will bear witness to the best of our cinema best on Sunday, April 13, 2014, when C-U Confidential brings the fifth annual New Art Film Festival to the house!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s a double dose of disco lights, platform heels, and analog mayhem as we harken back to ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Melodic with shades of melancholy, “Still” is the most recent song by Megan Johns and Moonwish to receive the music video treatment.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Elvis Brothers never *really* left the building, as C-U Blogfidential has discovered! Dig on these vintage Elvis Bros. videos, one of which features the former Cinema Theater of Urbana as a backdrop.

Dormant C-U group Third Stone returns to life for a one-off rock-and-roll throw down at Fat City Bar and Grill in Champaign, IL, later tonight, Friday, September 20, 2013. We’ll show and tell you how movie-making has infiltrated their storied history!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s time for a bit of spiritual penance under the chapel roof as The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra give you “Something to Believe,” both in song and on video!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Sam Ambler and Matt HarsH’s approach to making a Morgan Orion music video is pretty straightforward. They just put him on camera and let those soulful eyes and voice do all the work. “Fire in Blood” is their current example.

Once again, we feel behind the times in our own reporting niche but that will not stop us from encouraging you last-minute to support Urbana Basement Sessions, engage in “Dinner and Bikes,” and revel in the success of Pens to Lens!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Chris Eitel has a knack for filming cool videos for ambitious young musicians. We’re sure The Fights are only happy to have one set to their song, “I Should Have Loved You.”

C-U Confidential and the Art Theater Co-op in downtown Champaign, IL, invite you to take a survey of locally-made cinema today, Friday, April 12, 2013, during the fourth annual New Art Film Festival. It’s bound to surprise!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Here’s the closest thing to a Champaign-Urbana video jukebox we could pull together for you this week. Megan Johns, The Dirty Feathers, Psychic Twin, and Vivian McConnell perform!