Real Name: Amanda Shively
Nickname: Amanda Shively
Joined: 2007-11-01 00:00:00


Occupation: Student
Hometown: Shorewood
Personal Website:
Favorite Bars:
Favorite Music: Braid. Brand New. Fake Problems. Hot Water Music. Jawbreaker. The Lawrence Arms. The Weakerthans.
Favorite Movies: Grandma's Boy, Idle Hands, Orange County, Saving Silverman, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut Go with it.
Favorite TV Shows: Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Office The shittiest reality television possible.
Favorite Books: 1984, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye, Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, House of Leaves, Invisible Monsters, Less Than Zero, Life After God, Microserfs, The Giver, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Torture the Artist Suggestions? Please?
Love About C-U:
Hate About C-U:
Hobbies: Acting a Fool, AAF, Buzz Music, Emailing You Twenty Times a Day, Exposing the Past Lives of My Phone Sex Loving Friends, Finding Freebies and Payable Opportunities, Living the Life and Living the Dream, Stalkers Anonymous, WPGU Music, The Club for People Who are Socially Awkward
About Me: I'll let you know when I do.

Articles by Amanda Shively

Checking in with Fall Semester Showdown artists - Dec. 09, 2009

Coming to a close with the Fall Semester Showdown - Dec. 09, 2009

Laughing Prairie Dog Festival entertains with six dynamic sets - Dec. 06, 2009

Catching up with...The Love Me Nots - Dec. 05, 2009

Inaugural Laughing Prairie Dog Festival hits the Canopy Club - Dec. 02, 2009

Thanksgiving playlist - Nov. 22, 2009

Catching up with...Pet Lions - Nov. 22, 2009

Use your time to celebrate musical expansion - Nov. 22, 2009

University Opera program highlights performances from all academic levels - Nov. 18, 2009

Of A Native Vibe celebrates bygone era of R&B - Nov. 18, 2009

The Academy Is...almost here for Foellinger performance - Nov. 12, 2009

Go places with Neko Case - Nov. 04, 2009

The Walkmen to perform for Afterglow series - Nov. 02, 2009

Big news ahead for locals You & Yourn - Nov. 02, 2009

Local collective redefines the perception of traditional music - Oct. 28, 2009

Catching up with ... Jet W. Lee - Oct. 21, 2009

Red Knife Lottery talks Soiled Soul and Rapture - Oct. 02, 2009

CU Folk and Roots Fest brings variety of participatory art - Sep. 23, 2009

Pygmalion Music Festival: Night Four - Sep. 20, 2009

Pygmalion Music Festival: Night Three - Sep. 19, 2009

Pygmalion Music Festival: Night Two - Sep. 18, 2009

Pygmalion Music Festival: Night One - Sep. 17, 2009

Local acts discuss their plans for Pygmalion and after - Sep. 16, 2009

Cowboy Monkey hosts Vivian Girls and the Beets - Aug. 26, 2009

August and September at the Courtyard Café - Aug. 26, 2009

Physical Challenge showcases up-and-coming local DJs - Aug. 19, 2009

Heads up! - Aug. 19, 2009

Lollapalooza 2009 brings rain, heat & 130 bands to Chicago - Aug. 12, 2009

Kevin Devine finds his niche - Aug. 11, 2009

Lollapalooza 2009: Day three - Aug. 10, 2009

Lollapalooza 2009: Day two - Aug. 09, 2009

Lollapalooza 2009: Day one - Aug. 08, 2009

Three days of music come and go at Union Park - Jul. 22, 2009

Pitchfork Music Festival: Day three - Jul. 20, 2009

Pitchfork Music Festival 2009: Day two - Jul. 19, 2009

Pitchfork Music Festival 2009: Day one - Jul. 18, 2009

OUTSIDE at the Research Park begins three-part series - Jul. 15, 2009

Catching up with...Super Killer Fire - Jul. 15, 2009

Locals Take Care look forward to recording process - Jul. 08, 2009

Highlighting 10 successful years at Highdive - Jul. 01, 2009

Blues, Brews & BBQ festival line-up - Jun. 24, 2009

88 Broadway to host post-Blues, Brews and BBQs events - Jun. 24, 2009

Talking tunes with World’s First Flying Machine - Jun. 17, 2009

Catching up with Vanattica - Jun. 17, 2009

The Creepshow brings horror-tinged punk to the Highdive - Jun. 10, 2009

Music Makers series signals return to music at Aroma Cafe - Jun. 07, 2009

Music and dance combine at IMC benefit - May. 28, 2009

Former CU resident Jon Ginoli spreads powerful message through Pansy Division - May. 27, 2009

What We're Into: late discoveries - May. 26, 2009

CU in 20: Play or Pose Reunion Show - May. 20, 2009

From storage to stereo - May. 13, 2009

Havens for music collectors - May. 13, 2009

Talking Dylan, shows with Jonathon Childers - Apr. 30, 2009

IMC Fest: three days and nights of local music and art - Apr. 15, 2009

Spotlight on...blues - Apr. 08, 2009

Spotlight on...heavy/punk - Apr. 08, 2009

Spotlight on...up and coming acts - Apr. 08, 2009

Thursday night's Gone Primitive tour finds John Vanderslice and John Darnielle captivating storytellers - Apr. 03, 2009

Spotlight on...DJs - Apr. 01, 2009

Spotlight on...hip-hop - Apr. 01, 2009

Spotlight on...jazz - Apr. 01, 2009

Spotlight On ... Folk/Acoustic - Mar. 25, 2009

Talking local music with Todd Hunter - Mar. 16, 2009

Catching up with Poster Children - Mar. 11, 2009

CU’s gothic industrial underground - Mar. 11, 2009

Murder By Death, Fake Problems and Sam Lowry combine talent, enthusiasm at Canopy Club - Mar. 08, 2009

Martin Atkins brings Tour:Smart seminar to Cowboy Monkey - Mar. 02, 2009

CATsNAP benefit brings feline-friendly musicians to Mike 'n' Molly's - Feb. 28, 2009

Day of the Drum beats its way into Krannert Center - Feb. 18, 2009

Bob Nanna dishes on music projects both new and old - Feb. 11, 2009

The Shadowboxer Collective looks to bring a stripped-down sound to CU - Jan. 28, 2009

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' - Jan. 19, 2009

A Quickie With ... Vvvvv - Jan. 14, 2009

The Great Cover Up's organizer Ward Gollings demystifies the epic event - Jan. 14, 2009

Hard rock returns with the Scarborough Affair, Verdict and Vanattica - Jan. 07, 2009

The first sounds of 2009: where to go for a good show on New Year's Eve - Dec. 25, 2008

Post-rock albums - Dec. 25, 2008

Non-traditional holiday songs - Dec. 17, 2008

Thrash-grass vs. hometown folk - Dec. 03, 2008

Chilling out with Denison Witmer and Erin Fein - Nov. 25, 2008

Away with the Hathaways - Nov. 05, 2008

The music of Girl Talk assessed - Nov. 05, 2008

Brendan Canning brings something for all of us - Oct. 15, 2008