On “Songs of Innocence,” U2’s 13th album and their first in more than five years, the mega-band uses the experiences of their formative years in Dublin as a muse.
Groove Cat Comedy’s 12-person improv cast took to the outdoor patio of the Three Penny Café last Wednesday, performing in casual dress as they stepped into a variety of scenes, music and personalities.
Charlottesville's most avid folk fans filled the University Chapel Sunday to hear local indie-folk band The Hill and Wood.The concert kicked off with songwriter Sarah White, a native act whose voice is reminiscent of fellow folk artist Brandi Carlile.
Fans of the beloved “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise were sure to have high hopes for this year’s latest remake.
No one can be sure, save for Ty Segall himself, why the multifaceted guitarist named his seventh record “Manipulator.” But this title brings with it a duality ? the word itself has either a negative or positive connotation ? which finds itself at home in the album’s stylistic blueprint.
After nearly two decades of worldwide popularity, Lois Lowry’s young adult dystopian novel “The Giver” has finally received a big-screen adaptation.
Showtime's provocative period drama “Masters of Sex” continues to follow the story of real-life sex researchers Bill Masters (played by the charismatic Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan). The show, now in its second season, affords these characters with less nudity and more character development than previous episodes allowed.
Staten Island-based alternative group Cymbals Eat Guitars is a four-piece band named for a Lou Reed quote about the Velvet Underground’s signature gritty, cacophonous sound.
If talking dog Brian from “Family Guy” had an alcoholic love child with the eponymous spy from “Archer,” you’d pretty much have the titular character of new Netflix original series “BoJack Horseman.”The animated adult cartoon, which premiered in late August, follows the life of washed-up sitcom star BoJack Horseman.
It is around 11 p.m. at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, and anticipation is building. The walls have only just stopped shaking from two thunderous opening bands: Ya’ll, and Left and Right.
Warning: This review contains spoilers of the show’s final season. The final season of “Wilfred” was said to contain the long awaited answer to the show’s central mystery: Why does Ryan (played by Elijah Wood) see his neighbor Jenna’s (played by Fiona Gubelmann) dog as an Australian man in a dog suit (played by Jason Gann)? The season got off to a shaky start. From its outset, “Wilfred” tended to overuse the “it was all a dream/hallucination” plot device, and the season four premiere is a telling example of this.
Light pencil etchings of weeds hang midway down a bulletin board. Insects chirp from behind a quiet “glub, glub, glub” of air bubbles.
Twelve years. That’s how long it took Director Richard Linklater to make “Boyhood.” And it is masterpiece of a film.
It has been four long years since Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers released an album — but the long wait for “Brill Bruisers” has proven definitively worth it.
Fox’s hopeful retelling of the “Batman” story arc falls flat due in large part to the series’ misleading title, “Gotham”. Such a title holds connotations of a heroic, mysterious Batman, roaming the night in pursuit of justice.
After listening to Maroon 5’s latest studio album “V,” listeners may find themselves in an Adam Levine-induced daze. For some strange reason, Levine is still able to make us delight in his falsetto and his band’s funky tunes.
In the past year, Ariana Grande has gone from typical teen pop starlet to full-blown international music sensation.
“Survivor” strands its participants in a remote settlement away from civilization. “Jersey Shore” experiments with young adults in a house at the beach.
Known best for their breathy, quiet vocals and acoustic indie repertoire, Angus and Julia Stone are the quintessential brother-sister duo. The pair’s self-titled album dropped last month, with a change in direction from the muted, rolling tunes they’ve released in the past.
Pop sensation Jason Mraz released “Yes!” — his fifth full-length album — earlier this year with both confidence and style.
