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Review: Wilco’s Lasting Impression at the Downtown Pavillion
July 19, 2012 Ntellos Wireless Pavillion Charlottesville, VA It starts with the concert listing and ends with me walking away tired, hoarse and utterly alive; seeing Wilco perform has always been that...
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YOU COMPLETE IDIOT: My Gwar Experience
Based on their show at The National in Richmond, VA on March 16, 2012, and an email interview, which arrived in my inbox on August 7, 2012 The hook of my glasses just barely caught between my middle...
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Blooms & Busts: Lollapalooza 2012
The sort of manic energy present at a music festival compressed into ten square blocks of downtown Chicago is hard to put into words. Grant Park, the city’s cornerstone public green-space that flaunts...
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Show Review: Okkervil River at the Jefferson
Okkervil River | Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA | August 28, 2012 I am inclined to tell you these things largely because my sangria-addled mind was almost totally unable to recognize and/or...
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Breaking the Chains of Pop: The Jesus and Mary Chain live at the 9:30 Club
“Oh, that’s just my hearing aid,” Jim Reid slurred in response to the shrill attack of feedback that emanated from the stage in a lull between songs. It’s true that The Jesus and Mary Chain are no...
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Free From Tiny Screens: Jack White
Charlottesville nTelos Wireless Pavilion Sept 27, 2012 Removing light-blue sheets from various instruments onstage, each roadie at the Jack White concert sported suspenders, a blue tie, and a...
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Blooming: A CMJ Roundup
The New York CMJ Music Marathon is run by, you guess it, CMJ: a heavy-hitting online and print publication that prides itself on having its finger on the pulse of modern music. The “Marathon” is more...
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Let It Be: A Review
Make no mistake about it. Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles, which just ended its run at the St. James Theater and is about to embark on a North American tour,is no mere Broadway...
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Tom Hansen’s New Art Form: The Book Concert
Dr. Tom Hansen, retired academic and activist, will appear at Charlottesville’s Quest Bookshop on July 11th at 7PM to perform nine unique songs and spread his philosophy that human beings...
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Bleu Room with a Red Vase: Catching a Star at Jones Beach
A gentle breeze carried across the dark blue ocean. The scent of saltwater air was a sweet flavor always missed and forever welcomed. Voices were the waves that rolled over each other, and a thousand...
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