Hey folks — hope you’re all staying warm and enjoying the lovely snowy weather.
Regarding tonight’s gig with  Those Darlins at the Southern, the Southern’s website says: “Those Darlins are on their way and we’re still on for the show tonight! Stay tuned as things could change with the falling snow. (2:38pm)” {UPDATE: the Southern’s site [...]

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Tonight is Worn In Red’s tour kick-off show!  Also, it’s a special night for me because this is the first time in months that these guys are having a show that doesn’t coincide with my radio time at WTJU and isn’t the night before one of my exams.  I’d really hate to miss my chance [...]

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Hey folks. I just wanted to chime in and mention that today marks the fifth anniversary of Nailgun. Thanks to James and the rest of the crew for taking over the reigns after I left town. Thanks to all of you readers and friends, without whom this site wouldn’t still be around. And, of course, [...]

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I meant to get this info up much sooner, but it’s been a hectic week trying to catch up with a lot of stuff… anyway, there’s an event at Random Row tonight that’s a benefit fundraiser for Haiti relief efforts; Wendy says:
“Love 4 Haiti will be an evening of music and art offerings from local [...]

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Well, here it is at last. {Inspired by last year’s write-up, I thought: why not review my favorite albums of 2009?  But then of course I had too much to say about all of them, so I thought about making a single blog post for each record… but inevitably I ran out of time at [...]

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Drunk Tigers are playing at the Tea House tonight!

{Sweet poster, Mike!} They’re playing with Eternal Summers and Roofwalkers, neither one of which I know much about… but anyway, Drunk Tigers and always fun, and it’s been a while since I enjoyed a good weekend night at the Tea House with some rock bands I’ve never [...]

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There are several cool things going on this cloudy / potentially snowy Thursday night…

First of all, Horsefang is playing at Random Row!  I haven’t seen Horsefang in over a year, so I’ll be really glad to catch their set again. For the uninitiated, they’re a really excellent local doom-metal 3-piece… they used to play at [...]

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So this has received a puzzling lack of advance publicity, considering the headliners are a band much-beloved in Charlottesville; tonight there’s a Punk Rock Payroll label tour appearing at the Tea Bazaar, with those ever-inventive Cville-expatriot wunderkinds the Extraordinaires, as well an appearance Justin Wolf’s Lux Perpetua project (I’m told he almost never plays live, [...]

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Sorry, I meant to blog about this much sooner, but I elected to spend my brief break from work today enjoying the excellent weather, rather than spending even more time staring at a small screen. (I thought one of the 5 other Nailgun writers might get to it first, but apparently not…)
Anyway, the first order [...]

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Got a message from my good friend Jones last night, letting me know that he will be playing the title role of Richard III in a “24-Hr Shakespeare” production at The Southern tonight. I’ve never heard of 24 Hour Shakespeare, but the premise sounds awesome: “11 Actors, 33 Characters, 1795 Lines, 24 Hours to Rehearse.” [...]

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