On an overcast Wednesday night, April 15, thousands gathered at the nTelos Pavilion to take in the laid back, California grooves of Snoop Dogg. His set list, an artfully put together collection, encompassed his whole career. From harder classics like “Gin and Juice” on his first major album Doggystyle to his more lighthearted work with […]
Every night for the month of April, art aficionados and Charlottesville locals Joseph Avery and Eleanor Muse have a new exhibit in their living room. “Hans-Ulrich Obrist is a curator, a big guy in the art world, and I remember we read an article where he said the first show he’d ever done was in […]
Wrapping up the spring leg of its Gilded Age tour with two C’ville shows, jamtronica five-piece group Lotus pairs classic rock sounds in the vein of The Allman Brothers Band and The Grateful Dead with modern dance beats. The Indiana-based band has built a vast underground following since its formation in 1999, becoming known for […]
It sounds like something a strung-out hippie might have muttered after two straight days of Dead jams and strong acid. “The music is all around us. It’s in the clouds, man.” Music ownership has gone something like this over the past decade and a half: Physical media turned to digital media, digital media turned to […]
The Longest Ride, like all Nicholas Sparks movies, is overlong, contrived and blatant in its pandering. Yet by being one of the most preposterous Sparks adaptations yet—a mishmash of pop-country neo-Americana with Barry Levinson-esque nostalgia and good old-fashioned sexy wish fulfillment—there is enjoyment (or at least begrudging respect) to be found in how openly and […]
Power rock trio Anyone’s Guess is currently based in Florida, but it’s a C’ville connection that shapes the band’s intensity. Frontwoman and former Bosnian refugee Sanja Jovanovic attended Charlottesville High School after assistance from the International Rescue Committee made it possible for her to come to America in 2002. Jovanovic made use of the local […]
When you walk into Freddy Jackson’s home studio, you are immediately greeted by the legends that influenced the Charlottesville-based musician, and helped to cultivate his diverse taste in music. His walls are covered with images of Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Betty Wright—and he even gets down with a little Elton John. Although […]
Where does style live? Is it found in a teacup, a pair of boots, the lift of a chin in a photo? Is art embodied in a perfect square made of daffodils, or a painting hung on the ceiling? Can a way of life, or a network of people, be designed, just like a skirt […]
Fo shizzle Charlottes-vizzle. Rapper, producer, actor, activist and all around icon Snoop Dogg commands the stage with his smooth rhymes and patented swagger. Snoop’s catalog stretches over twenty years and thirteen albums, breaking through with hits like “Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang,” “Gin & Juice,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and his most recent, “Peaches and […]
Two years ago, Texas tunesmith James McMurtry was playing a solo showcase at the famed South by Southwest Festival in his hometown of Austin, when his friend, producer CC Adcock (Robert Plant, Neko Case), introduced him to publishing executive Francois Moret, who was in the process of starting a new record label. That evening set […]