Wavves and Fucked Up are playing at the Jefferson Theater tonight; I’m really excited to see bands like this coming through town, as others of their ilk have traditionally shunned Cville for the crowds in Richmond or Harrisonburg instead… Anyway, Fucked Up are a sprawling post-hardcore ensemble who have gotten a lot of attention recently; [...]

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Tonight’s show at the Jefferson is bound to be pretty damn excellent. The world-famous Deerhoof are headlining, and two of the finest acts in VA are the openers: Deerhoof, of course, are a San Francisco-based art-rock band who have been around for over 15 years and have released over 10 albums, and whose members have [...]

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There’s plenty of pleasant things to do on this hot sweaty summer night; we were late in getting on the sidebar calendar, so I want to take a second to highlight tonight’s show at Al-Hamraa. Relatively new-ish local supergroup Infinite Jets are the main attraction; that’s the group fronted by Matt Bierce from Drunk Tigers [...]

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Man Man are back in town yet again tonight: To win tickets, send an email to nailgunmedia@gmail.com by 5pm, put “Man Man” as the subject line, and include your full name in the email. We’ll contact the winners by 5pm. You know these Tom-Waits-loving, bizarre-percussion-using, controversial-band-running weirdos well by now. They’re about to drop their [...]

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That’s right, you can win a pair of tix to this $35 TV on the Radio show right here on Nailgun.  The Show is happening this Saturday (the 9th, and we’ll have the write-up then) at the Jefferson, but you only have until this evening to win the tickets! Don’t ask me why, that’s just [...]

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The Bridge‘s film series has another cool event lined up tonight; they’re showing “The Lodger,” an early Alfred Hitchcock film; it’s a silent film from 1926, and while it’s not Hitchcock’s first film, it’s widely considered the one where first emerged as a recognizable auteur, rather than just an anonymous director-for-hire. It’s the first time [...]

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the Extraordinaires are playing at the Southern tonight, as part of an “official preview show” for MacRock. would you like to win a pair of tickets? the best way to do so is to send us a haiku — preferably one about the Extraordinaires, or related topics — the prize will be awarded to the [...]

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The Baltimore band Thank You are playing at the Tea Bazaar tonight; they’re a band that’s only come onto my radar recently, but I really like the EP they just put out (sample song here); plus they’re on Thrill Jockey, who tend to put out great stuff, so if you have any hesitations about tonight’s [...]

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The Thrill Jockey band called Thank You are playing at the Tea Bazaar tomorrow night; you can sample their brand of sublimely energetic jangle-rock by downloading the first track off their new EP; and you can win a pair of tickets by e-mailing us with the words “Thank You” in the subject line! UPDATE: Congrats [...]

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Day 2 of happening shows and another giveaway: Dr. Dog play here a lot (Gravity Lounge AND The Southern in 2009 – how is that possible?), but this time you can win free tickets for their show at the Jefferson tomorrow night. $16 tickets are still on sale (they’ll be $18 at the door), but [...]

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