Preview: New Old School Freight Train record
It brings me great pleasure to tell you that I received a copy of OSFT’s soon-to-be-released album, Not Like The Others, the band’s first studio record since 2005. The verdict?
Virginia’s best new band is Truman Sparks
So says the Boston Phoenix, an alt-weekly that chose to celebrate the nation’s most cacophonous holiday by selecting the best all-time band, solo artist and new artist in each of the 50 states.
Breaking news: Rob Sheffield did something two months ago!
In a daring kiss-off to ideas like “current events” and “cultural relevance,” The Hook announced in a June 20 blog post that former local and Love is a Mixtape author Rob Sheffield left Rolling Stone magazine for a position as a columnist at Maxim’s Blender music magazine. The announcement comes roughly two and a half months after the New York Post announced the same damned thing.
Love is a Muxtape
How do you herald the start of an enormous musical experience? Do you move from the ground up, or from the top down? Bring a thunderous ruckus like Wu-Tang Clan, or testify to “the strength of street knowledge,” like N.W.A.? Do you walk like an Egyptian, smell like teen spirit, dance with yourself? Do you […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
DMB sax player hospitalized
In an evening post on Dave Matthews Band fansite AntsMarching.org, it was announced that longtime saxophone player Leroi Moore was hospitalized for injuries sustained during an all-terrain vehicle accident at his home in Charlottesville. Moore was transported to the UVA Hospital and listed as in serious condition. A call to the UVA Health System was not immediately answered.
For those about to rock …
Which came first, the mp3 or the egg? What’s the sound of one band clapping? If a music blog rocks your world, does it make a sound? It does now.
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
If we’re to believe Oscar Wilde, that “one’s real life is often the life that one does not lead,” then music critics are like half-assed biographers. We manipulate the narrative of a songwriter’s life using the records we have at our fingertips and the murmurs of our peers and, when a new record comes out, […]
Storm’s coming
There are more than 60 versions of “Peaceable Kingdom” by Quaker painter Edward Hicks—different iterations of all creatures great and small, sleek-coated predators and skittish prey, hunkered down together wearing expressions that could make a Zen master jealous. The “Peaceable Kingdom” series comes from a line the Old Testament prophecies of Isaiah (and, for brevity’s […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.