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(10/30/14 7:41pm)
Alabamian seven-piece soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones played for a sold-out crowd at the Jefferson Theater Thursday night. With a crowd amassing early, the energy was palpable in the pit.
(04/17/14 4:23pm)
Native American writer and poet Simon Ortiz visited the University Bookstore Friday for an evening of poetry reading. Between readings, Ortiz shared parts of his life story — touching on his experience in Vietnam and drawing unsettling connections between the occupation of the country and the displacement of Native American peoples throughout history.
(02/19/14 8:49pm)
“Is disco making a comeback?”
(01/28/14 2:28am)
The line was long at the ticket window outside the Jefferson Theater on a particularly chilly night last Thursday, where fans were eager to see Matthew Houck, the man behind Phosphorescent.
(11/26/13 2:12am)
Part hip-hop, part rock and part noise, Death Grips is one of the most interesting bands recording today. Since it was formed in 2010 by neighbors Zach Hill and Dave Burnett, the band has released a mixtape, three studio albums and a number of singles.
(11/20/13 4:43am)
From the moment the Mowgli’s appeared on stage last Tuesday, it was clear their performance would be different than most that grace the Jefferson’s stage. Michael Vincze, shoeless and perpetually hidden by a drape of gold curly hair, engaged the audience almost immediately in a meditation session. The audience indulged in his orders to close our eyes and emit a guttural scream dismissing all trapped negativity.
(11/04/13 2:08pm)
Lou Reed, the legendary guitarist and vocalist of the Velvet Underground died Oct. 26 at the age of 71.
(10/18/13 12:36am)
It didn’t take much more than one Billboard chart-topping single to call Ella Yelich-O’Connor “the queen of alternative.” Not long after releasing her EP “The Love Club” last March, the New Zealand singer-songwriter saw her single “Royals” claim the No. 1 spot in the New Zealand Top 40. Then, in August, she topped Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, and just days after releasing her full length album “Pure Heroine” in September, “Royals” occupied the No. 1 spot of the Top 100 Billboard charts for more than two weeks.
(09/16/13 3:24pm)
The entertainment world is currently scrambling to establish opinions on the actor and actress chosen to play world’s kinkiest couple. For months, weekly gossip magazines have published fine efforts to predict the sexy couple, though fruitlessly. No, our Christian Grey will not be Ryan Reynolds. No, our Christian Grey will not be Taylor Lautner or Andrew Garfield. No, surprisingly, our Christian Grey will not even be one of those relatively known actors universally acknowledged as good looking.
(09/11/13 12:39pm)
While every acoustic and folk lover flocked to the local Lockn music festival this past weekend, the electro-rock lovers stayed behind to attend a pair of shows at the Southern Café and Music Hall.
(08/28/13 9:57pm)
Everyone is talking about “Orange is the New Black,” the Netflix original series released in mid-July and based on a memoir of the same name. Taylor Schilling, familiar from her recent role in the Nicolas Sparks adaptation “The Lucky One” plays Piper Chapman, the doe-eyed blond girl no one expected would end up in jail. In the pilot episode, we meet Piper as she prepares to serve her time in jail for carrying drug money.
(04/24/13 4:05pm)
The low-profile Charlotte Aitchison, who performs under the moniker Charli XCX and gained international popularity as the featured artist of Icona Pop’s anthemic “I Love It,” recently released her own studio debut, ‘True Romance,’ an album full of songs about love, relationships and partying. But even while working with these standard pop record themes, Aitchison does not seem to have mastered a standard sound.
(04/10/13 8:07am)
The 1990s were a good time for emotional indie rock. Bands like The Smiths, Radiohead and Belle and Sebastian all peaked during this tumultuous decade. In addition to these popular bands, though, the ‘90s saw the rise of a number of smaller groups that managed to amass substantial followings. Such was the case with Low, a slow-core band out of Minnesota.
(04/03/13 3:20pm)
Even before her first full-length album was released this March, Kacey Musgraves began making waves in the country music scene by co-writing two popular songs — Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” and “Undermine,” from the popular ABC drama series Nashville — and later by releasing her own hit single, “Merry Go ‘Round.”
(02/28/13 1:09am)
There are few things more entertaining than a prodigious mandolin player. Chris Thile, mover and shaker of the Punch Brothers, is one such musician. For playing such a small instrument his movements are exaggerated and almost frenzied. One of the great joys of the band’s show at the Jefferson Theater was watching him leap across the stage only to glance at his fingers and realize that they are moving so fast they blur.
(02/14/13 3:29am)
By 10:30 p.m. last Thursday, the Jefferson Theater was ringing loudly with the sounds of the quintessential sweet spot of a bluegrass concert. All the instruments, from mandolin to fiddle, have been played at least twice. The band has warmed up and the audience is warm from dancing or twirling. A haze has descended over the stage and hangs over the lights. The noise of the audience has been reduced to a soft hum and everything from here on out will be round after round of melodic instrumental combinations. Railroad Earth, a progressive bluegrass band out of New Jersey, reached this point early, and cast it away late, playing for a solid three hours.
(02/07/13 4:04am)
If you were expecting to hear new material — or even beloved classics — on Destiny’s Child’s 2013 compilation album, Love Songs, you will be sorely disappointed. This reunion album is released under the Destiny’s Child brand — an unstable group, but one that is most often remembered as the trio of Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams — and is essentially a recycling of old, mostly lesser-known tunes, with just one new track.
(01/31/13 1:23am)
Movie 43 opens with a struggling and misguided filmmaker (Dennis Quaid), dressed in skateboard shoes and a zip-up sweatshirt, desperately pitching a project to a major production agency. He expresses his desire to make a “smart movie with a lot of heart, like The Help,” but this ambitious statement is understood almost immediately as a joke. It soon becomes apparent that Movie 43 will turn out to be the exact opposite of the disgruntled director’s ideal: distasteful and unsympathetic.
(01/24/13 5:31am)
Until True, there has been little opportunity to appreciate Solange Knowles’ talent. It was her older sister Beyonce who emerged as the star and a pop culture icon when the golden age of Destiny’s Child ended. Since then, Solange’s undeniably strong voice has been hidden behind her sister’s fame.
(11/15/12 5:10am)
The lineup of the Reptar and Rubblebucket concert at the Jefferson Theater last Wednesday struck a chord with the festival-going crowd, and the resulting show lived up to expectations.