Ben Chasny has made several visits to Charlottesville, performing as Six Organs of Admittance, a collaborative project in which he cross-breeds nimble-fingered folk riffs with mind-expanding psychedelia.
art Skate culture is one of the most overlooked folk-art traditions, but also one of the most popular; it’s alternately marginalized and heavily commercialized, and has remained one of America’s most significant underground cultural movements for over 30 years. Later, skaters: Black Cat Skateshop decks the walls with photos spanning the history of local skateboarding […]
music For those with eclectic tastes in a cosmopolitan hamlet like Charlottesville, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how great Southern music can be, especially when played live. Three solid acts at the Outback Lodge served as a healthy reminder. Black Twig played first and, despite sharing three members with Blacksburg-based noise-and-folk acts Pelt and […]
I remember distinctly the moment in my adolescence when I decided that rock music was cool.
gallery It’s the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love: Aging dinosaur rock bands lumber onwards, Baby Boomers are patting themselves on the back for having changed the world and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find accurate documents of the late ’60s, much less ones with any level of grace or insight. Get your mojo […]
gallery Sadie Benning began making movies at age 15 when her father gave her a Pixelvision camera; she used the cheap, grainy technology to make short personal films. Despite her age, these films are stunning and insightful; this is a child’s game of dress-up that is also a brilliant recycling of film clichés and gender […]