(soul position)
Tonight (May 29th) Soul Position and One Be Lo will be at the Satellite Ballroom. You can still by tickets online here.
Soul Position is comprised of RJD2 and Blueprint. They’ve been working together since 2001, and have made a name for themselves both together and on their own. Listen to some [...]

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I forgot to mention that tonight’s All of Fifteen show at the Outback Lodge (w/ Soul Sledge and Under the Flood) is a benefit for UVA’s Children’s Hospital. All the more reason to go to the show and have some fun.

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(all of fifteen)
Friday night All of Fifteen, Under the Flood and Soul Sledge will be at Outback Lodge. This will be All of Fifteen’s first show in a while, and their first as a four-piece.
Also, The Falsies and the Plastic Containers will be at Atomic Burrito

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Here are a couple of cool things:
Monkeyclaus did a Monkey Session with Jackie-O Motherfucker when they came to town to play at DUST back in March. You can find out more about it here.
Also, I ran across audiozine.org, which my friend Kaveh has put together. Go there to check out the first volume, [...]

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(growing)
Tonight Growing and The Thrones will play at Gravity Lounge.

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(headlights – photo by megan holmes)
Tonight Headlights and Cataract Camp will play a show at 1714 JPA.
Headlights hail from Champaign, Illinois and are on Polyvinyl Records. Listen to some songs on their myspace page or their website.
Here’s what Popmatters says of them: “The traditional indie rock line-up, is fleshed out with electronic flourishes, [...]

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Wow, it’s going to be quite a weekend.
Tonight Twelvethirteen and M Parrish will be playing at Dust, starting around 10pm. An e-mail I got described these guys as “glitchy, experimental, electronic, idm-derived cerebral fun for all.” Then at midnight Liars and the Apes will be at the Jefferson Theater.
Saturday, Headlights and Cataract Camp [...]

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(liars – photo by danielle levitt)
Tomorrow night Liars and the Apes will play the the Jefferson Theater. Doors open at 11:30pm and the magic begins at midnight.
I wrote a review of their new album, Drum’s Not Dead, and it’s available here.
Popmatters writes that “It is clear that Liars are, just now, coming into [...]

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Tonight Laura Veirs, Karl Blau and Thao Nguyen will be at the Satellite Ballroom. Laura Veirs recently toured with The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy. You can listen to one of her sets on NPR. Doors at 8.

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(liars)
You probably already know this, but this Friday a tremendous and magical show will be taking place at the Jefferson Theater. Liars and the Apes will play a special midnight show in the theater, which once hosted such vaudeville acts as the Three Stooges and Houdini. The show is being presented by the [...]

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