Last Tuesday, Adventure Club, a Canadian electronic dance music duo, stopped at The National in Richmond on its nationwide Superheroes Anonymous tour.
String quartets are often associated with the smooth, classical melodies of Mozart and Bach — a musical standard that new music group “The Radio Music Society” hopes to redefine by performing popular, top 40 songs with string instruments.
Among the variety of hometowns from which UVa students hail, Southern Virginia is typically considered lesser than the geographical superpower that is Northern Virginia – more commonly known as “NOVA”. However, Southern Virginia does have a few outstanding attributes, like the local music scene, which arrived in Charlottesville last Friday in the form of The Last Bison, a band originating in Chesapeake, VA, who made a massive splash at The Southern. Humbly conversing with friends and fans alike, the seven members of the band mingled in the same area as the crowd as we anxiously awaited their performance.
Singer-songwriter Toby Keith’s latest album, “Drinks After Work,” delivers the country singer’s signature blend of charming twang, inventive lyrics and line-dance rhythm.
Boldy James is a Detroit rapper whose new album, “My First Chemistry Set,” is one of the year’s best.
Attending screenings at the annual Virginia Film Festival is like drinking a glass of red wine and then having a conversation with the vintner.
While Will Forte is best known for his spot on “Saturday Night Live” and his goofy spin-off movie “MacGruber,” he shows off genuine acting chops in “Nebraska,” a poignant story about a father-son relationship.
This year the Virginia Film Festival brought Charlottesville a true wonder with the 2012 Dutch film, “The Zigzag Kid.” Through its partnership with Congregation Beth Israel, the film was featured as one of the three made from a Jewish perspective. The movie, however, has a message relevant to all audience members, encouraging them to embrace their individuality.
The performance that Richmond-based Carbon Leaf put on at the Jefferson Theater last Friday night was by no means typical of a band consisting of guys in their mid-40s who have been playing together for over 20 years.
Returning from a surprise two-year absence from the music scene, Tucson-based duo Ryanhood released its new album “Start Somewhere” on Nov.
Around Grounds, students are packing away their costumes, snacking on leftover candy and catching up on neglected homework.
Very few comedians, let alone people, are as successful as Aziz Ansari – especially at such a young age.
People everywhere have dissected and discussed every minute detail of the day that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in the head in a sea of media, spanning from books, to movies, to television, to obscure conspiracy theory sites around the web.
Arcade Fire’s follow up to the Grammy Award winning 2010 album “The Suburbs” turned out very different than expected – at least for me.
Since the release of their debut studio album “Eyelid Movies” in 2009, Phantogram has built a noticeable grassroots following through extensive touring campaigns, playing with the likes of The Antlers, The xx, Beach House, and Ra Ra Riot.
My experience Sunday night at the Paramount Theater was less of a concert than it was an exercise of spiritual arousal.
When the credits rolled at the close of Paul Greengrass’s thrilling Captain Phillips, based on the 2009 pirate hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, the audience breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The film industry has grown increasingly unoriginal lately. Most popular movies tend to fall into one of four categories: sequels, remakes, novel adaptations and works inspired by a true story.
Smart romantic comedies are surprisingly not easy to come by these days, making Nicole Holofcener’s “Enough Said” particularly so refreshing.
This past week, I had the pleasure of viewing a prescreening of “About Time.” Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who has also brought us “Notting Hill” and “Love Actually,” the movie tugs at our heartstrings once again.
