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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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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Plenty of events this evening: Wild Nothing are back in town. That’s the band of former Blacksburg guy who got unexpectedly internet/Pitchfork famous a few years back; they have this low-fi jangle garage-rock sound that everyone compares to C86, but unlike a lot of those bands they also have a sort of polished / synthy [...]

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I just heard yesterday about a show at the Tea Bazaar tonight; I’m not familiar with any of the folks playing, but several rad people have spoken highly of it, and the descriptions sound interesting. The acts are all apparently related to / feature members of Devil Music Ensemble (the Boston group who have done [...]

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Two concerts of note this evening; One I just heard about a few days ago is the show at the Balkan Bistro and Bar on West Main; it’s a nice spot, and somehow has become the default location for good punk and metal shows these days. Speaking of which, there’s three solid local bands playing [...]

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In Chile, the date of September 11th is remembered for another reason: September 11, 1973, when Salvador Allende’s democratically elected Socialist government was violently overthrown by the Chilean military, who executed him and replaced him with a military dictatorship. That coup, by the way, was secretly funded and fully supported by the American CIA, who [...]

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