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Very excited about seeing YLT tonight! As far as I know, tickets are still available, though not cheap ($20-25). Doors are at 7, and there’s no opener. YLT are playing two sets: one soft, the second hard. I’m guessing they’ll play from around 8 to 10, but we’ll keep you updated on Facebook and Twitter [...]

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Happy Saturday y’all, Full disclosure, I’m playing in tonight’s show so I’m heavily invested in each and every one of you reading this turning out. A lot has been made of the Forgetter’s frontman being in a certain band that’s been on the receiving end of newfound appreciation. It’s even in the title of the official facebook event. Be glad, [...]

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The first thing you need to know about Diarrhea Planet is that they rep Tennessee hard. At a show, one of their guitarists longingly mistook my “Virginia” shirt for a “Vanderbilt” University shirt. They reside on Nashville’s solid Infinity Cat label where they tweet at label-mates Jeff the Brotherhood about Nashville. Their band bio is [...]

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I only heard about this five minutes ago, and even then only by chance, but apparently Justin Wolf and Jay Purdy are playing at The Bridge tonight! Both are Cville boys who have made their names elsewhere (specifically, Philadelphia) but are back in town for the time being and playing a show tonight. Justin Wolf [...]

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Tonight at the Balkan Bistro (on West Main, near 10th st), the Smiffs are playing — that’s Charlottesville’s Smiths cover band, consisting of Butch Klotz, Nicholas Liivak, Scott Ritchie, and Jonny Kuthy. You have probably seen those dudes play heavier music in their real bands, but tonight they are the Smiths. Originally a pop-punk group [...]

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Those of you who are in Charlottesville today are surely itching for something to do, and possibly eager for alternatives to spending another day with your extended family and/or getting trampled to death at Best Buy. Here are two good suggestions: As part of the annual practice of Buy Nothing Day, Random Row Books is [...]

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Hey readers, sorry for the long delay between updates — both Carolyn and I have been extremely busy lately, without much time to devote to the blog… I did, however, want to let you know about the concert tonight at Random Row Books: Invisible Hand is playing, along with the Richmond band White Laces, and [...]

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Halloween comes but once a year, and there’s a bunch of fun things going on around town tonight: WTJU is doing a live performance of “the War of the Worlds” on-air tonight; a Charlottesville-specific adaptation of the Mercury Theatre on the Air’s 1938 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel. (Orson Welles — no relation — [...]

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We’re having a fun event at Vinegar Hill Theatre tonight; Halloween is approaching fast, and so is a tremendous hurricane, and there’s absolutely nothing else going on tonight so you should come check it out. We’re partnering with OffScreen to show three movies tonight: Joel Schumaker’s beloved 80′s vampire flick the Lost Boys, a grisly [...]

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