(ostinato)
Tonight These Are Powers and Ostinato will be playing at the Tea Bazaar. These Are Powers features an ex-member of Liars. Ostinato is a killer DC/Charlottesville rock band.
And Cataract Camp, Truman Sparks, A Cosmonaut’s Ruin and Tereu Tereu will play at Outback Lodge.
You can probably go to the first show and then hop over [...]

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(the sea and cake – photo by dustboy) Tonight The Sea and Cake, Meg Baird and Ilad will be playing at Satellite Ballroom. I interviewed The Sea and Cake in my C-VILLE column and I interviewed Meg Baird here.
Here’s an mp3 of my favorite song from Meg Baird’s Dear Companion: “Waltze of the [...]

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(magnolia electric company – photo by freekorps) There are a lot of shows going down tonight.

Magnolia Electric Company, The Watson Twins and Drakkar Sauna will play at Satellite Ballroom.
Sam Wilson and Shannon Worrell will be at Orbit.
Kings of Belmont and Travis Elliott will be at Outback Lodge.

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(digger and the pussycats) Tonight Digger and the Pussycats play at Atomic Burrito. They come all the way from Melbourne, Australia with garage punk goodness.
Also, Six Day Bender plays at Michael’s Bistro.
Update: Agh, and I forgot to mention this: Mad Happy and Jameson Zimmer (of Love Tentacle Drip Society) are playing at the Tea Bazaar.

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(meg baird – photo by Aaron Igler)

Nailgun: How did the songs on Dear Companion come together?

Meg Baird: A good deal of this material came together from my frustration at myself for being able to do a decent version of “Do What You Gotta Do.” This record is something of a giant (hopefully not [...]

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I’m in NYC for the weekend, so no updates until Monday. Sorry!

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Looks like Dan Deacon may not be playing with Girl Talk tonight. Dammit! It’ll still be a killer show, no doubt, but I was really psyched to see Dan Deacon.
From WTJU:
20 Sep 2007 14:07
Subject: Charlottesville canceled for me. coughing blood, can’t speak
Body: hello,
im way to sick to play the show tonight. im coughing up weird [...]

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(girl talk – photo by danepstein)  OK, I admit that I haven’t had to do much on my end for promoting the Girl Talk show, since it sold out so fast. But regardless, I’m really excited about tonight, and I hope you have your ticket. It’s going to be a crazy night.If you lacked [...]

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(circle)  Tonight Circle and Endless Boogie will play at the Tea Bazaar. The last time Circle came they were absolutely amazing. Really. Don’t miss this. I talked with them for my C-VILLE column this week. Check it out.And if that’s not your thing, Local H and Truman Sparks will be playing at Satellite Ballroom. You [...]

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thanks to Don Harrison)
Longtime WTJU disc jockey D.R. Tyler Magill is taking an “indefinite hiatus” from the Sound Choice in Central Virginia after Sunday night’s broadcast of Radio Wowsville. The legendary local music jock, alias Grandpa Coles, a.k.a. Blind Lemon Pledge, is shown here in a rare photograph from his earliest days in regional [...]

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