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” […]
GWAR with Midnight, Mac Sabbath, and X-Cops at The Jefferson 10/27
For the week of Halloween you can’t pick a more on-the-nose holiday bill. Barring a surprise Alice Cooper/Misfits gig, GWAR with Midnight, Mac Sabbath, and X-Cops supplies the most costumed, […]
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 […]