Kelly Clarkson’s latest album, “Piece by Piece,” finds the pop rock singer playing with EDM and synthesizers, while exploring the same themes of self-empowerment and heartbreak present on 2011’s “Stronger.” Because Clarkson recycles so many themes from her previous work, the new album contains too many unexciting, mid-tempo songs that fail to impress.
Soft-spoken indie folk singer José González returns with rhythmic thumping and strumming on “Vestiges & Claws,” his first solo album in seven years.
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.
The Brooklyn-based country-folk trio The Lone Bellow made their Charlottesville debut this Saturday at The Jefferson Theater.
It is rare to find a primetime television show with as much social relevance and gripping drama as “Empire.” A show in its own league, its first season has already broken records and is a bonafide hit.
The season three premiere of Fox series “The Following” continues the series’ new take on crime shows.
“Survivor,” the once-groundbreaking reality game show, returned last Wednesday for its 30th season, “Survivor: Worlds Apart.” After a lackluster 29th season, “Survivor” seemed to finally be running out of steam — but the latest season premiere proved that the reality show still has some fight left. The premise: 18 strangers are stranded in remote Nicaragua, divided into three tribes and left to fend for themselves against the harsh elements.
If you thought denim was done, you thought wrong. The famed material certainly peaked during the mid-90s and early 2000s, but it only left us for a short time before returning with a vengeance.
Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-born, American-raised author, treated the University community to a reading of her various works last Thursday.
Tim’m West, a hip-hop artist, poet and the new director of Teach for America’s LGBTQ Initiative, presented “Empire: A Talk on the Intersectionality of Race, Sexuality and Hip-Hop” last week during his first visit to the University. The architecture of West’s talk was supported by FOX’s knockout drama, “Empire,” which focuses on a family choosing the next executive of a hip-hop entertainment company when the current head is diagnosed with ALS.
Estelle’s current obscurity in R&B is simply a shame. She continues to delivers excellent material that both separates from and harkens back to her 2008 breakout single, “American Boy.” Her latest album, “True Romance,” finds the British songstress navigating the themes of relationships and heartache through an eclectic mix of R&B sounds and some stylistically-different tracks.
Anne Grant opened her traveling art exhibit “Shmattes” at the Brody Jewish Center Friday. Grant, who received her degree in Jewish Studies from the University in 2012, presents viewers with a collection of t-shirts to show different representations of cultural Jewish identity in modern America.
“Hollow City,” the second novel in Ransom Riggs’ best selling series, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” continues to please its readers as well as those jumping into its universe for the first time.
Ghostface Killah has always been nearly impossible to predict. His releases, besides the Wu-Tang Clan, have offered an eclectic mix, especially the most recent ones.
The latest movie-musical to hit theaters is Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years,” starring “Pitch Perfect” star Anna Kendrick and renowned Broadway star, Jeremy Jordan.
Big Sean’s latest studio album comes at a pivotal point in the rap music industry. Drake recently surprise released an album and Kendrick Lamar is making waves with new music, while newcomers like Rae Sremmurd and O.T.
From the start of its lackluster publicity pushes, “Jupiter Ascending” failed to live up to its promise to be one of the biggest sci-fi blockbusters of the year.
Everyone’s favorite yellow sponge from Bikini Bottom is back in “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.” This film, directed by Paul Tibbitt, is essentially an extended “SpongeBob” episode that transports the audience to an altered state of consciousness.
Originally intended as a spin-off of “The Office” with Ed Helms or Craig Robinson playing a lynchpin part, “Parks and Recreation” was so unsure of itself during its first season that even the all-star cast couldn’t have saved it.
Last week, author Caryl Phillips read a section of his new novel “The Lost Child” to an audience on Grounds. Phillips is known for his post-colonial style of writing — characterized by a passage of time and space as well as insight into how history dwells on names and people.
