What's the Time Mr. Wolf? is the first full-length album by the U.K.'s Noisettes. Released in February on the far side of the Atlantic, the LP hit U.S.
You really couldn't expect a band that is known for its lyrical nihilism and lack of genre identification to abandon its original style for mainstream approval.
The purists who cried "Judas!" at Bringing It All Back Home must be fuming at the state of folk music these days.
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A man is stuck inside his home with nothing to do. He entertains himself by watching his neighbors through his window.
"Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece," penned Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The lyricist of the Broadway musical Cabaret must have had lazy college students in mind when he wrote, "What good is sitting alone in your room?
Indie band Limbeck has the strange origins of being founded by four So Cal punk rockers. Straying from its musical roots, the band's style swiftly evolved from anti-establishment rants into Americana fused with pop and alternative-country.
Even if you didn't experience it first hand, you know what the 1960s represented. Maybe you dig the image of bead-clad hippies, head bands and a long-haired version of your Uncle Rick giving the peace sign.
Black Voices This Saturday, April 21, Black Voices will perform at the University Baptist Church on the Corner at 5 p.m.
Conor Oberst, the prolific songwriter behind the ephemeral Bright Eyes collective, is growing up, and it's not clear whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand, his latest work is his tightest and most musically proficient to date.
If you're looking to discover a new dose of zany and spontaneous indie-rock, lyrics so profound as to really stir you or a full, epic-rock sound grand enough to recall Zeppelin or the Stones, look... further.
Named the University of Virginia's number one organization on Grounds last year by Student Council, the Organization of Young Filipino Americans (OYFA) will be hosting its annual Barrio festival this Saturday. "OYFA was founded in 1988 by a group of Filipino students who wanted an organization where they could express their values and traditions, but at the same time not be really exclusive," said Rosanne Ibanez, third-year College student and OYFA historic chair. Now, composed of over 100 members, OYFA acts as a cultural and social arena for Filipino students on Grounds.
Between Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" and Justin Timberlake's three #1 hits, 2006 was a banner year for Timbaland's slick, futuristic production
If you're up for a flick with less cinematic integrity than a mid-afternoon segment of C-SPAN, equal in the amounts of fear it invokes from viewers, make sure to check out the newly released "suspense thriller" The Reaping, directed by Stephen Hopkins. You can let the quotations speak for themselves.
I t's that time of year again. Flowers bloom. Animals wake from their winter slumber and begin their lovemaking.
Explosions, man-eating zombies, a go-go dancer with a rifle for a leg and Kurt Russell driving down groups of sexy women; it's all part of the thrill for buddies Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
SOTL Shakespeare on the Lawn has produced many inventive renditions of Shakespeare's classics. This weekend, April 12 and 14, the troupe is performing Henry IV.
What do you get when you combine Will Ferrell, Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder and male-male pairs of figure skaters?
As the ambassadors for the latest and greatest possibly non-existent genre of British rock music, new rave, Klaxons have a lot of weight on their shoulders.
On the surface, The Lookout bears all the elements of a full-on-entertaining action thriller. Bank robberies.
