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.
Orson Scott Card’s novel “Ender’s Game” is an engrossing, passionate tale of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin as he progresses from a young, naive child into a battle-hardened soldier.
I don’t understand art. Scroll back through my recent articles and you’ll find glowing reviews of culture tailored to teenagers.
Lou Reed, the legendary guitarist and vocalist of the Velvet Underground died October 26 at the age of 71.
“Klezmer” might not ring any bells, but chances are you’ve run across the style of traditional Jewish music at some point in time, perhaps most notably in the musical film “Fiddler on the Roof.” Despite its relative obscurity, this form of music is alive and well, and the Klezmer Ensemble ensures it has a presence even on Grounds. The group, led by Assoc.
My experience Sunday night at the Paramount Theater was less of a concert than it was an exercise of spiritual arousal.
Katy Perry’s latest album, “Prism”, is another solid addition to the pop music canon. In short, the record does everything a pop album should do; it makes you want to dance, it’s fun and it’s a collection of top-notch anthems, with a few power ballads sprinkled in for good measure.
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.
Music can tell just as good a story as any Walter White, a fact I was reminded of last Tuesday at the Tuesday Evening Concert Series in Old Cabell Hall featuring the Les Violons du Roy chamber orchestra accompanied by mezzo-soprano opera singer Stephanie Blythe. I walked into this spectacle somewhat underdressed and underprepared, but thankfully the musicians did not. The Les Violons du Roy opened with “Orchestral Suite No.
The separation of a book lover from his books is a sorry sight. Unfortunately, college students often feel too busy for any reading beyond their course syllabi.
If you somehow managed to miss the swing dance flash mobs, the colorful chalk advertisements all over grounds and the group of students in AFTERDARK t-shirts tossing out flyers on the lawn, you really must have had a lot of midterms. For everyone who got the memo, you had the chance to experience AFTERDARK, “where music and message meet” and featuring heartthrobs Ben Rector and Tyrone Wells.
It’s Thursday afternoon and you have just finished your last class of the day, maybe of the week. Regardless of whether or not you have class on Friday, you’re looking for something to do to start the weekend off right, but what?
If you’ve seen a headline about Kanye West in the last several weeks, I bet the headline included the word “rant.” West’s passion on his BBC Radio interview with Zane Lowe have spurred parodies like Jimmy Kimmel’s skit making fun of the new Kardashian dad.
Indie rock group The Head and the Heart has achieved tremendous momentum since forming in 2009. The band has opened for notables Dr. Dog, Vampire Weekend and Charlottesville’s own Dave Matthews Band — all artists the Seattle-based band cites as inspiration.
If Virginia hip-hop has a sound, it’s The Clipse. The duo of brothers Pusha T and Malice broke nationally with 2001’s Lord Willin’, an album of vivid drug dealer narratives produced entirely by Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo, another Virginia Beach duo who called themselves The Neptunes.
