GWAR slammed Charlottesville on Monday, March 4, with a sold-out gross-out show at The Jefferson Theater. The outrageous “Scumdogs of the Universe” were founded in Richmond in the 1980s, in part by Virginia Commonwealth University students. But current lead singer Michael Bishop is a UVA alum—a recent UVA Today piece detailed how Bishop earned his doctorate in music, with a dissertation on “A Socioesthetics of Punk: Theorizing Personal Narrative, History and Place.”
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