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Van Morrision :: Bulbs (Live on Musik Laden — WATCH)
The SH!T That Is Blowing My Mind :: Ronnie Lane — Done This One Before
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I don’t quite know where it all began. Riding back into C’ville late last night with the moon hanging big, bright, and three quarter full … Interstate 64 all lit up and this single cloud appearing like a wolf riding through the night sky, racing as if to swallow the moon whole. Listening to Son [...]
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Truth and Salvage Company :: Pure Mountain Angel (Watch)
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Truth and Salvage Company I’m attempting to get some things done today while out of town and away from my office. So consider this one to be written on the run. Luckily I’ll be back in C’ville in time to catch the first of two noteworthy shows on my dance card at The Southern this [...]
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Richmond Fontaine :: The Sound of Greatness From the Forests of The High Country
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From the darker side of Americana comes the music of Portland, Oregon’s Richmond Fontaine. Songwriter Willy Vlautin has crafted what can only be described as a “song-novel” with the release of the band’s latest album The High Country. Maybe I’m taking the easy way out but what the hell … let me just give it [...]
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Deer Tick :: Performing Live on Letterman with a New Album On the Way
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Deer Tick [photo by Scott Alario] The countdown is on for the release of Deer Tick’s fourth album Divine Providence which hits stores on October 24th on Partisan Records. I’ve been digging on Deer Tick since being introduced to the band’s sophomore record Born on Flag Day a couple years back and things just keep [...]
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Malcolm Holcombe :: A Voice of Original, Beaten Beauty
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Malcolm Holcombe [photo by Ray Kennedy] Raw. Ragged. Wrapped in the resonance of blues and smoke. These are the American voices that I often come back to again and again. I want an honest song and I want it sung by an honest artist. If there was a stage to stand on or a chair [...]
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Paul Curreri :: Poor Little Motorbike (Video)
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Paul Curreri I never did say goodbye. I guess that’s because I still kinda feel like we’ll all see each other again. But know this … and I say it often to whomever will listen. In a small little city like Charlottesville that seems to have an abundance of talent often in greater proportion to [...]
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A Smothering of Scattered Covers :: Jeff Tweedy–God (John Lennon)
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Over the past month, as I’ve been breathing some life back into this little Rut O’ Mine, I’ve been reminded of a ton of great musical highlights from the previous year that I shamefully neglected to share with you all. Maybe I just needed some time to collect some new tales to tell. Whatever the [...]
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Gold Leaves :: On Tour With A.A. Bondy This Fall (Listen — 2 MP3s)
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Gold Leaves [photo by Kyle Johnson] Catch Gold Leaves, the new musical project of Seattle-based songwriter Grant Olsen, on tour this fall opening for A.A. Bondy. [Olsen is also half of the indie folk duo Arthur & Yu]. For Charlottesville locals that means not missing out on November 18th when A.A. Bond, along with Gold [...]
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Portugal. The Man :: So American (Video — National TV Debut on CONAN)
Man O Man was I feeling rough last night. Thought I was coming done with the flu. I really should have been in bed, but I’m kinda glad I couldn’t sleep. I was flipping through the channels near the midnight hour and luckily landed on Conan just in time to catch Portugal. The Man light [...]
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Upcoming in Cville :: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks AT The Jefferson (TONIGHT)
[painting by Steve Keene] I think I’ve already said in the title of this post all that really needs to be stated. But just a few additional tidbits for shits and giggles can’t hurt. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to check out Mirror Traffic [Matador Records], the latest and most excellent [Beck produced] album [...]
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Matthew Sweet :: Modern Art (Album Review)
It’s been nearly twenty years since the release of Matthew Sweet’s power pop masterpiece Girlfriend and in the spirit of all that is old is new again, Sweet will be hitting the road in October to bring it all full circle by performing the entire Girlfriend record from cover-to-cover.
Dawes :: Time Spent in Los Angeles (NEW Video)
Here’s the new Sam Jones-directed video for “Time Spent in Los Angeles” from Dawes’ sophomore release Nothing is Wrong. Dawes just wrapped up two days of performances at the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Festival over the past weekend … and if you missed those shows I’m sad to report that there are no additional Virginia [...]
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Upcoming in Cville :: The Head and the Heart AT the Jefferson Theater (on 09.24.11)
The Head and the Heart [photo by Shawn Brackbill] After opening for The Decemberists at The Pavilion back in early August, Seattle’s The Head and the Heart return to Charlottesville to headline their own gig at The Jefferson Theater on Saturday [Sept. 24th]. The single “Lost in My Mind” from the band’s self-titled debut continues [...]
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Upcoming in C’ville :: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. AT The Southern (TONIGHT)
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A great two-act bill, $10 show coming up at The Southern in C’ville tonight. Detroit’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. [the duo of Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott whose pensive mugs are highlighted above] come racing into town [see what I did there?] on the strength of their full length debut album It’s a Corporate World [...]
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Aaron Embry :: “No Go” (Video)
Aaron Embry :: A performing member of the fabulous ensemble that is Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeroes. The producer of Avi Buffalo’s Sub Pop debut album. A songwriter. A talent. Check out Aaron Embry’s “blog-type thingy”, We Are Each Other. Looks like he’s going to be posting a series of new songs in video [...]
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Frank Fairfield :: The Sound of Now is Old, Like Music and Time
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Frank Fairfield I can’t say for certain where my love affair with old-time music began. Having grown up in the mountains of Western Virginia, maybe it was simply in my DNA. That is not to say that I immediately embraced the sounds of claw-hammer banjo and the mountain fiddle. The reality was actually quite the [...]
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Luke Temple — More Than Muscle (MP3)
Luke Temple I completely missed out on the most recent of Luke Temple’s musical expressions in the form of the band and the album that share the name Here We Go Magic. But I won’t be missing out the songwriter’s brand new solo release Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care. Three years in arriving to [...]
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A Smothering of Scattered Covers :: Lissie–Hello (Lionel Richie Cover — Video)
I still blows some people’s minds from time to time by showing them Lissie’s cover of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” .
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