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(10/24/14 2:38pm)
Cirque du Soleil returned to John Paul Jones Arena this week to present “Dralion,” an acrobatic performance showcasing the best of multiple cultures’ cirque interpretations. Arts & Entertainment brings you a behind-the-scenes look at the performance’s creation and execution, in collaboration with acrobat Gao Zhongxin, percussionist and performer Marcus Perozzi and Artistic Director Sean McKeown.
(10/18/14 12:24am)
Electronic pop artist Arum Rae will appear at the tiniest of Charlottesville venues, The Garage, on Thursday, Oct. 23 to promote her most recent EP release, the “Warranted Queen.” Full of drama and atmosphere, Rae calls her EP “very real and open.”
(10/09/14 2:30am)
Arts and Entertainment recently caught up with Kyle Woolard, lead singer of Charlottesville-based folk-rock group The Anatomy of Frank. The band will play The Southern on Oct. 16, much to the community’s excitement. Woolard traces the band’s intriguing journey from creation to their current state of fame.
(10/07/14 2:50pm)
In its first Charlottesville performance, D.C.-based string band Scythian brought the house down this past week at The Southern, located on the Downtown Mall.
(10/04/14 2:50am)
Rubblebucket performed at The Jefferson Theater on the Downtown Mall two weeks ago. Arts & Entertainment sat down with lead singer and saxophonist Kalmia Travers to hear her thoughts on Charlottesville, the band’s recently released album “Survival Sounds” and Rubblebucket’s budding career.
(09/25/14 3:02pm)
The Southern Café and Music Hall — a joint bar, restaurant and concert venue — has quickly gained recognition in Charlottesville as a top-notch performance venue since its opening in Sep. 2009. Known for featuring some of the hottest indie-rock acts the industry has to offer, the restaurant side of The Southern has garnered nowhere near the level of public praise as its musical counterpart. That is, until The Southern’s “Gourmet Grilled Cheese” menu was born.
(09/08/14 3:21pm)
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. But with the placement of Bruce Wayne into a secondary plotline, many viewers may be disappointed in the series.
(09/03/14 7:25pm)
Known best for their breathy, quiet vocals and acoustic indie repertoire, Angus and Julia Stone are the quintessential brother-sister duo.
(09/02/14 10:04pm)
Pop sensation Jason Mraz released “Yes!” — his fifth full-length album — earlier this year with both confidence and style. A native of Mechanicsville, Virginia, Mraz rose to fame in 2003 with the release of single “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry),” being catapulted even farther into stardom) with “I’m Yours” in 2008.
(08/27/14 4:39am)
Nationally acclaimed pop-rock band Parachute will return to Charlottesville on Sept. 10 to rock out at The Jefferson Theater. The 2013 release of the band’s third full-length album, “Overnight,” sparked momentum for a headlining tour this fall. After touring with Gavin DeGraw and other superstar acts like the Plain White T’s for the past six months, lead singer and founding member Will Anderson says the group is “excited to play for a long time [onstage] rather than opening” for another artist.
(08/21/14 10:41pm)
The Downtown Mall lies just a trolley ride away from Grounds for incoming first-years seeking a slice of Charlottesville culture. Lovers of music and theater may find the quaint strip of shops and restaurants even more interesting once they discover the number of diverse performance venues — ranked the No. 1 “Thing to Do” in Charlottesville by US News — the area has to offer.
(07/01/14 11:43am)
The road to The Southern has been a rocky one for indie pop group Bombadil, as the band returns to the Downtown venue in mid-July for its third appearance. Bombadil will tour the country this summer to promote the re-release of their 2009 album, “Tarpits and Canyonlands.”
(04/23/14 2:57pm)
Cartoon television shows have become one of the basic methods of building a strong foundation in education, morality and kindness for children whose lives are increasingly spent in front of screens. Programs like “Dora the Explorer” and “Little Einsteins” — dripping in politically correctness — use simplified messages to impart important messages about language, art, music and reasoning skills to children. But beyond these goals, there is a growing trend of working to teach young viewers how to appropriately respond to and respect people trying to overcome mental illness.
(04/18/14 4:06pm)
The newest album from Breathe Carolina, “Savages,” may not be super fresh or exciting, but it is certainly a good EDM record to jam out to. Their style remains generally the same as in past albums — dramatically slow and heavy, building to wonderfully quick rhythms and fantastically traditional dance beats — with the addition of greater hip-hop influences.
(04/16/14 1:43pm)
Members of “singular rock and roll band” The Deadmen — Josh Read, Justin Jones, Justin Hoben, John Hutchins and Mike Smirnoff — made their musical debut March 15 with the release of their first self-titled EP. The band’s optimism about their work cannot be understated, particularly after their successful set at The Southern last Saturday night. Arts & Entertainment got the scoop on the band’s past, present and future in the music business.
(04/01/14 3:01pm)
We want Nickelback back. Where into the dark, foggy depths of the 2000s have they disappeared to? The band’s last studio album, “Here and Now,” was released in 2011, but no one has heard from them since.
(03/31/14 2:43pm)
Shakespeare on the Lawn, a group of actors, designers and tech crew members dedicated to performing Shakespeare’s historically vibrant and emotional works, excelled at breaking down the barriers between actor and audience in their rendition of “Titus Andronicus” this past weekend.
(03/26/14 1:26pm)
SOJA’s lively mash-up of folk story-telling and Jamaican funk style has stunned audiences around the world since the band’s self-titled EP dropped in 2000. They’ve maintained their ferocity through the years, now releasing what the band dubs an all-new “intoxicating mix of hot-rod reggae grooves and urgent, zeitgeist-capturing themes” with the soon-to-be-released album
“Strength to Survive.” The group performed at The Southern on the Downtown Mall this past Friday night to test and promote their upcoming release.
(03/20/14 11:04pm)
These days, Facebook and Twitter get all the glory when it comes to social networking, but let’s be honest: Facebook is for pictures of family reunions and new babies, and Twitter is for celebrity gossip and Internet fights. The most innovative and underrated social media site of the day is blogging website Tumblr.
(03/16/14 6:17pm)
On a sweltering day last July, Warped Tour’s Acoustic Basement Tent burst with the sweet indie-rock sounds of Allison Weiss. With an acoustic guitar, a tambourine, and an outfit resembling The Ramones’ classic punk threads, the audience expected to hear relaxing folk tunes that would mellow the harshness of the sun. Instead, Weiss treated them to a jam session full of angry, rock ‘n’ roll narrative pieces that resulted in a mile-long line at the merchandise table after her set.