Fred Armisen at The Jefferson 10/7
If you’ve followed his career, you understand how difficult it is to say which of Fred Armisen’s characters qualifies as his signature role. Between his tenure on “Saturday Night Live” […]
American Shakespeare Center’s The Tempest plays with convention
Is it okay to laugh about colonialism and oppression? If you’ve ever seen “The Inquisition” musical number or the French Revolution scenes from Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part […]
Sierra Ferrell at Ting Pavilion 9/8
Executed well, songwriting is a skill that stands up to just about any style. That is to say, even if the dressing up of a track is not to your […]
Dominic Fike at The Ting Pavilion 8/19
It’s difficult to say if Dominic Fike’s output is the inevitable result of our multicultural musical monoculture (an oxymoronic irony for sure) or if he and his team’s creative choices […]
The Barber of Seville at The Paramount 7/17 & 7/19
For all of the negative-energy detritus that Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) left smeared across popular culture, no one rioted upon its release—including the people camped […]
Babe Haven at The Southern 6/24
When I was in college in the early 1990s, I got swept up in the Riot Grrrl music movement despite the fact that I wasn’t female, Queer, or even female-presenting. […]
Pablo Cruise at the Jefferson Theater 6/1
Has there ever been a musical group more committed to the conceptual panacea known as yacht rock than Pablo Cruise? That hindsight-made genre can be found in the name. You […]
Fonville x Fribush at Rivanna River Company 5/16
A B3 model Hammond organ from 1962, like the type Sam Fribush sets himself up behind, weighs upwards of 310 pounds—and that’s just the console unit alone. Throw the bench […]
Arts Fishing Club at The Southern 4/28
What is it about music as an art form that pushes some people to demand authenticity from those they listen to? Honesty of vision is often expected of musicians in […]
Digitalis Electronic Music Festival 2026 at Old Cabell Hall 4/14
For a few years now, the UVA music department has taken to highlighting the works of its most progressive and conceptually minded students at the Digitalis Electronic Music Festival each […]