2K Games’ latest entry into the Mafia franchise has problems on the Xbox One — a lot of problems.
Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” opens around a fire. Around the fire sits a group of slaves cloaked in a thick blue light and spectral dust. The elder of the circle exhorts the slaves to follow young Nat Turner, who carried a birthmark deemed auspicious by ancient African tradition.
Pop-punk is no longer relegated to the realm of teen angst. Coming off the heels of acclaimed 2014 third album, “Never Hungover Again,” Joyce Manor’s latest release finds the band moving past adolescence and into arrested development.
Shakespeare can be difficult to understand, but the actors of the Drama Department’s fall show, “The Comedy of Errors,” made following the play’s plot easy.
Ever since their humble beginnings in a crusty garage in Ohio, the members of Guided by Voices have strived for the grandiose. This is why it made total sense when lead singer Robert Pollard promised to play 50 songs before the set was over last Friday at the Jefferson Theater.
Last year’s “Lice” EP, a 15-minute collaboration project between Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman, was a sign of things to come.
One powerful but simple secret allows Marvel Studios to stay in the forefront of modern entertainment — its larger than life stories appeal to a wide variety of audiences.
There is an audience for a show like “This is Us.” They’re the type who cry during Nicholas Sparks movies. Honestly, they’re probably buying premiere tickets in advance for every single Nicholas Sparks movie.
It was a perfect summer night in Downtown Charlottesville when Rayland Baxter took the stage at the Sprint Pavilion to open for The Lumineers.
The greatest takeaway from Gavin DeGraw’s sixth album, “Something Worth Saving,” is that his style has changed completely over the course of his career.
De La Soul first made waves in the hip-hop community with their 1989 debut album, “3 Feet High and Rising.”
Vagina. About half of the world’s population has a vagina. All nine performers in The Virginia Player’s Reading Series presentation of “The Vagina Monologues” have a vagina.
Pop culture’s last few years have once again proven the circuitous nature of mainstream music. First we saw Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” which is virtually a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up,” and now the charts have been invaded by Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” and its suspiciously strong influences of The Gap Band’s “Oops Upside Your Head” and Michael Jackson’s “Jam.” So when Tame Impala’s founder Kevin Parker described the purpose of his new album “Currents” to “The Atlantic” to be to “convince a few die-hard rock fans that ‘80s synths can fit over a ‘70s drum beat,” a few were understandably concerned. After all, “Lonerism” gained universal recognition and had already set unreasonably high standards for its sequitur.
Lord Pretty Flacko, better known as A$AP Rocky, has been quiet the last few years, but he certainly has not been inactive.
The mtvU Woodie Awards show comes to Austin, Texas late March. Established in 2004, the Woodie Awards center around finding original musical indie voices within the past 10 years.
Across genres, it has been a pretty great year in music.
This has been an excellent year for film, offering everything from gripping blockbusters to innovative personal films.
It has become common practice among music artists to repackage their albums in an effort to simultaneously boost single sales and dish out new content by slightly renaming the album or slapping “Deluxe” onto the title.
David Guetta cemented his status as one of the world’s premiere DJs with the release of his last album, “Nothing But The Beat.” His latest studio album, “Listen,” is another fantastic addition to the artist’s electronic dance music catalogue, featuring collaborations from Nicki Minaj, MAGIC!, Emeli Sande, The Script, Sia, John Legend, Bebe Rexha and more.
“Horrible Bosses 2” will hit theaters Wednesday — and, unsurprisingly, the film follows the unfortunate trend of sequels which desperately attempt to rehash the tired plot of the original.
