Subject: Chris Powell

• B-Sides traces the history and evolution of the power ballad in honor of Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick, and examines An Under Cover Weekend's '80s and '90s participants

  September 10, 2008

• Duck and Cover

  Some of the city's best-known bands go incognito at Off Broadway.

  September 5, 2007

• Homespun: Heroes of the Kingdom

  HOTK
  (self-released)

  April 22, 2009

• Heroes of the Kingdom, Emperor X Post New Albums Online

  The local record-release season is starting to heat up along with the weather. First up is Heroes of the Kingdom, which recently unleashed its debut album, HOTK, online. You can purchase it here -- and like the album released by vocalist Chris Powell's other band, Ring, Cicada, HOTK is available in a bunch of different formats and varying bitrates.MP3: Heroes of the Kingdom, "Wild Eyed Creatures" One-man experimental band Emperor X -- which is now based in Edwardsville -- also just released a

  April 15, 2009