People have called Metallica many things. Gods, jerks, pioneers and pigs are some of the different words people choose to describe the world?s most famous metal band.
When I think of today?s hip-hop, the first thing that comes to mind is scantily dressed women, pimps, bling-bling chains and music that is all manipulated on a producer?s soundboard.
Before the four-hour rehearsal begins, Voices of the Class stage manager Dorothy Kohlligian can be observed distributing signs, Monty-Python-style coconuts and other props, while director Matthew Marcus announces that an obviously misshapen ?three-cornered hat needs maintenance.? On the other side of the auditorium, actors discuss line readings while lights flicker and random reverberations are emitted from the speakers as technical directors experiment with sound.
In the world of primetime television, the old adage that ?everything old is new again? has been taken to an extreme in recent years.
Tim Be Told plays Gravity LoungeLast year?s Battle of the Bands winner Tim Be Told has continued to dominate the local music scene, opening for OK Go at last semester?s Springfest and earning positive notices from local music sages (such as Brad Savage of 106.1 The Corner) as the next big band out of Charlottesville.
The drama department is calling committers and non-committers alike to come see a show about cold feet and trying relationships.
During the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 27, Kevin ?Skwerl? Cogill was arrested by the FBI for leaking nine tracks from the highly anticipated, long-awaited Guns N? Roses? album Chinese Democracy.
In May 2008, China?s Sichuan province experienced a catastrophic earthquake that killed almost 70,000 people.
One year after singlehandedly driving MTV?s Video Music Awards into the ground with a disastrous and dazed performance, Britney Spears returned to the VMA stage last Sunday to inject the flagging awards show with something she almost completely stripped from it ? relevance.
When Brian Wilson?s new release came out last week, in all honesty ? and may the gods of Rock ?n? Roll smite me for saying this ? I wasn?t expecting much when I sat down to listen to the 66-year-old former Beach Boy?s latest work.Though generally well-received by critics (including this one), That Lucky Old Sun has its flaws.
I?ve been staring at the screen for about 20 minutes trying to figure out how best to express what I think of Terrence Howard?s new album, Shine Through It.
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival begins Sept. 7 ? with a concert featuring a violin and an amplified cardboard tube in Old Cabell Hall.
It?s an insane concept. Nine people on stage at one time play incredibly heavy music. Those who aren?t playing instruments wrestle/fight/mosh onstage, creating an atmosphere that?s purely chaotic.
Sufjan Stevens writes score to Natalie Portman shortThe maestro behind such state-themed chamber pop classics as 2003?s Michigan and 2005?s Illinois is currently slated to write musical accompaniment to an upcoming short directed by Natalie Portman.
The release of Intimacy, Bloc Party?s latest studio effort, may lack the hype that surrounded the band?s first two albums, but the fans are still anticipating the raw energy and tight songwriting that has set Bloc Party apart from their English indie peers during the last half decade.
Any film that features a song called ?Rock Me Sexy Jesus? as a key part of its plot is likely to create high expectations of non-stop hilarity.
Despite the numerous moments of brilliance found in The Verve?s first three albums, many people still have trouble recalling any of the group?s songs other than the epic ?Bittersweet Symphony.? While the anthemic single was one of the best songs of the 1990s, to reduce the band to that one bit of music would be an insult to the myriad other great songs they have created.Punningly titled Forth, the group?s long-awaited fourth album picks up right where Urban Hymns left off 11 years ago ? swirling, distorted, noisy (yet beautiful) prog rock that is unlike anything else on the radio today.Clocking in 10 tracks at a little more than 60 minutes, the disc contains only one song shorter than 5.5 minutes.
On the surface, John Boorman?s 1972 flick Deliverance is a twisted, turbulent tale about four Atlanta businessmen on an unforgettable canoe trip in the backwoods of Georgia.
Scene opens. Mid-day over Gotham City, a city that never sleeps because it is constantly victim to slews of super-villains.
Ever since Mike Stroud and Evan Mast began recording their unique fusion of electronica and rock on a simple PowerBook, their band Ratatat has steadily been accepted into the upper crust of the indie rock scene.
