New local rock project. Art-rock duo Fangs Out opens.
Top-heavy gypsy indie-folk loaded down with strings and accordions and other elements that might make you think you’re listening to Beirut instead.
Indie-folk singer-songwriter who has roots with Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records and the wobbly vocal style to match. Chris Campanelli opens.
David Dondero - Wherever You Go
David Dondero - When Your Heart Breaks Deep
David Dondero - Rothko Chapel
Local alt-country songwriter and her rock-oriented new backing band.
Sarah White - Apple In B Major
Sarah White - Half A Smile
Sarah White - Ply Me
Sarah White - Sweetheart
Sarah White - Where You’re Going
One-man Americana band with a banjo and a kick drum pedal smacking up against a suitcase with every stomp of his foot.
Hazy bedroom indie-pop singer and ethnomusicology PhD candidate riding Ducktails coattails.
Garage pop covered in halfassed fuzz. Shoegaze pop quartet Weed Hounds opens.
African music scholar performs with a trio featuring local drummer extraordinaire Robert Jospé and exotic instruments like the kamalen n’goni and balafon.
Heather Maxwell - African Women
Heather Maxwell - Ashanti Boy
Heather Maxwell - Boloci
Heather Maxwell - Can’t Take My Man
Heather Maxwell - Orphan’s Lullaby
Heather Maxwell - Surrender
Tunes and social causes alike gush forth from this ecologically-minded local rock quintet like crude from the Deepwater Horizon well. (Sorry, too soon?)
Trees On Fire - Live Life
Trees On Fire - Rosa
Trees On Fire - In The Middle [via WXJM Live!]
Pack your toothbrush and footie pajamas for this one, as well as a few extra bills — Fellini’s is pulling for an all-nighter with performances by Jim Wray, Bob Bennetta, Art Wheeler, John D’earth, and more at this fundraiser to jump-start a new educational initiative started in memory of fallen jazz pianist George Melvin to be run by the Charlottesville Jazz Society which will help aspiring young jazz musicians acquire instruments and pay for lessons. Your donations are tax deductible, and $5 buys you a raffle ticket to win a painting of George at Fellini’s.
Complete lineup:
Alt-rock with geeky space themes befitting the members, who, yes, are actually Astronomers.
Astronomers - Or Maybe It’s Nothing
Astronomers - Perpetual Emotion
Astronomers - Stratagem
Astronomers - The Singularity
Astronomers - Shoes
Astronomers - My Hologram
Astronomers - Fermata
Blues and soul diva
Jo Gore and the Alternative - Not To Me
Jo Gore and the Alternative - Last Letter Home
Start your Fourth of July festivities early with classic country, bluegrass and blues covers as well as a handful of originals from the award-winning dobro player and multi-instrumentalist, who is a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, the composer who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Blues duo focusing on relics from the 20’s and 30’s.
Lorie Strother - Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues
Dr. Levine and the Dreaded Blues Lady - Shake It Daddy
Rock from Sons Of Bill bassist Seth Green and experimental guitarist Benjamin O’Brien.
Moby and the Dicks - Ta Na Na
Moby and the Dicks - Red For Dodge
Moby and the Dicks - F
Teenage classic rock quartet
The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People
The Wave - She Disappears
CD release show for the teenage classic rock quartet
The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People
The Wave - She Disappears
The second of two CD release shows for the local songwriter leans electric, with guest appearances by Nate Brown and Andy Waldeck.
Patriotic music from the local performance ensemble.
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Patriotic music from the local performance ensemble.
Harmony-laden traditional bluegrass
WTJU station manager Burr Beard had hoped to keep his ideas for increasing listenership at the radio station internal.It’s been just two months since Burr Beard replaced retiring WTJU station manager Chuck Taylor, but he already appears to have a full-scale revolt on his hands. Recently, emails from WTJU volunteers, disgruntled about “sweeping changes” that Beard was implementing, began circulating.
“There’s major trouble at WTJU,” one staffer wrote, “Burr Beard, the new manager, is attempting to impose sweeping, if yet undisclosed, changes. What has leaked out so far has the longtime volunteer staff in an uproar and threatening a strike.”
In a call to the Hook, another WTJU staffer complained that Beard wasn’t going to “let DJs play their own songs” and that there was a “mutiny” going on.
Beard has sent messages to WTJU’s staff explaining the proposed changes, a kind of cheerleading effort to get WTJU staff excited about strategies to increase listenership and fundraising. As Beard pointed out, “on average only 7,500 people listen each week. That’s the smallest audience of (more)
Don’t think Cville has a sense of humor? The Charlottesville Comedy Roundtable says otherwise. PUBLICITY PHOTO
Buzzed-about drums-and-guitar rock duo. Jason Cimon opens.
Country-punk. DJ Nano spins records afterward.
Former frontman of the late Richmond pop-rock faves Prabir and the Substitutes plays a solo acoustic set.
Long-running Philly rootsy-rock duo who have earned the support of icons like Steve Earle and Stephen King (who called them “either the American U2 or close enough for government work”) and even a guest vocal spot from Springsteen. And while the acclaim may be well deserved, it certainly doesn’t hurt that they come up with album titles like “Let’s Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight” and song titles like “Why Independent Record Stores Fail.”
buy tickets onlineAcoustic alternative indie-folk duo playing the lyrically heavy post-military reflections of Marine squadron leader turned guitarist Josh Hisle, some of which were actually written while in Iraq; he has scored a major supporter in Neil Young, whose label is distributing his album The Last Great Lost. Linda Rondstat’s son Michael accompanies on cello.
Former frontman for pop-rockers Ultraviolet Ballet releases his new solo album in the studio where he recorded it and bundles a copy in with the door price.
Galen Curry - Oh Mama
Galen Curry - I Tore Down A Mountain
Well now, that name is certainly a mouthful, and it doesn’t even include Thao’s surname (Nguyen), but this is perhaps not all that surprising given that her usual band bears the similarly uncooperative name “The Get Down Stay Down.” But they’re both underground singer-songwriter powerhouses on their own (Thao via folky material on Kill Rock Stars and Mirah, whose full name ends with “Yom Tov Zeitlyn,” with pop sensibilities delivered by K Records), and after an unusually effective joint set at a San Francisco festival in late February, they decided to continue collaborating and covering each other’s tunes while on tour together.
DC microsensations These United States, now with three guitarists in a lineup twice as big as in years past, open with folk-derived tunes from a songwriter purportedly himself descended from Johnny Appleseed.
buy tickets onlineThis renowned russian cellist’s past projects include a recording of Bach’s violin partitas and sonatas rearranged for her lower register as well as a collaboration with “Master Charles” of the Synchronicity Foundation; here she’ll be performing as a benefit for the downtown homeless shelter and the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition For The Homeless.
You probably know Jeff Decker as the sax player in the Wednesday night Miller’s jazz combo, but at the exceedingly rare shows with his eponymous other band he steps up as a singer on tunes by Dean Martin and Sinatra.
Pentecostal punk– the new MO for Luke Nutting’s Red Rattles. PUBLICITY PHOTO
Mili, right, works the shadows while Manzarek holds the light.RICHMOND— For just $20, concertgoers got to hear songs of the 1960s rock group whose frontman combined poetry, sex appeal, and self-destruction so powerfully that Oliver Stone made a film called simply The Doors. And now a Charlottesville man has been tapped to step into the leather pants of the late Jim Morrison.
However, Miljenko Matijevic, who maintains his own recording studio on East Market Street, has yet to literally step into any spotlights with the band now called Manzarek-Krieger. Despite his Morrisonesque gryrations and ear-busting intonations, Matijevic performed without direct illumination throughout most of Monday night’s greatest hits concert.
To be sure, the new frontman, at 45, is older than Morrison, who never got past 27, but why is Matijevic— on the job for a week and a day— confined to the shadows? Is this just an audition? A pre-concert phone call to the band’s publicist offered little.
“We’re not doing (more)
Pop-country and folk singer-songwriter, crossover smash — and, of course, local celebrity)
buy tickets onlineThere’s absolutely no acceptable reason to pass up this free show given that the flagship project from local rocker-of-many-hats Adam Smith was positively doused in local acclaim in our annual music issue. North Carolina’s Naked Gods, who will be splitting an upcoming 7″ with the Hand, open with hazy alternative country-rock, and Smith and Hand drummer bassist Thomas Dean also run a DJ set beforehand.
Release show for the new split cassette from the local rockers.
Drunk Tigers - Small Town
Drunk Tigers - Lessons Hurricane
Local metal faves Corsair are the shreddier of the 70’s rock revivalists on the bill here, what with the solos using harmonized Iron Maiden thirds and all. But Ohio’s surprisingly aggressive Lollipop Factory also don’t do too bad for themselves, doing their best as a duo to sound as huge as the 70’s might have if people had been running around trying to come up with a sound like stoner metal instead of just getting stoned for real; “frankensteined pop-metal contraptions,” as guitarist David Tweed handily puts it. With We Landed On The Moon!
Corsair - Last Night On Earth
Corsair - Space Is A Lonely Place
Corsair - Starcophagus
Release show for the new cassette of live recordings by the precocious young local gadgeteer made in Richmond just over a week beforehand. With C-ville’s own Mss. and Pattern Is Movement experimental recording spinoff Oh! Pears.
Roanoke’s premier jangle-punk duo. With Greenland, Family Trees, and Andrew Cedermark.
Acoustic set from the Latin jazz and samba duo
Beleza Brasil - Water To Drink
Beleza Brasil - Fever
This Grammy-winning Swedish-via-New-Orleans badass slide guitarist and occasional songwriter to the Nashville elite went with roots music powerhouse label Alligator Records for his last album, which also somehow bears a co-production credit from one of the dudes from metal maniacs Corrosion of Conformity. Speaking of which: he also often performs with a sousaphone player.
buy tickets onlineOver the past decade and a half, people like Sunny Day Real Estate’s Jeremy Enigk and one-time bandmate David Bazan of Pedro The Lion as well as labels like Sub Pop and (most recently) Secretly Canadian have all championed Seattle songwriter Damien Jurado’s sleepy indie-folk. It’s often quite dark and minimalist, except when it’s not, as with his occasional jaunts into electric instrumentation, string arrangements, and found sound.
Openers Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground play eccentric Beatles-influenced retro-pop with occasional bits of folk and sparkly piano parts.
Also featuring Stratton Salidis.
World fusion outfit featuring Malian instruments like the kora and kamel n’goni and lyrics in several languages.
Acoustic quartet Skeedaddle plays 20’s and 30’s swing loaded up with unusual instruments like ukulele, kazoo, and washboard.
The star of Live Arts‘ recent production of Lost Highway finally gets back to playing his own tunes.
Foot-stomping NYC folk and bluegrass outfit which in their most cuckoo moments can rely as much on rowdy hootin’ and hollerin’ as on actual instruments. Bring yer dancin’ shoes.
Americana quartet
The Judy Chops - Drugs
The Judy Chops - Long Roads
The Judy Chops - Downbeat Poet
Local fingerstyle guitarist plays old-time
Instrumental rock, blues, funk, and R&B from the local guitar wizard.
Richmond jazz singer accompanied by pianist Skip Gailes
Acoustic pop including tunes from as far back as the 1920s
Energetic Irish traditional tunes mixed up with contemporary covers with which you are expected to sing along (seriously, they’ve been known to print out the lyrics for you and everything).
The local performance ensemble WANTS YOU to help them celebrate the 235th anniversary of the U.S. Army.
Local jazz artist Gerrit Roessler leaves Charlottesville with a plethora of experience, scholarship, and found noises in his repertoire. PUBLICITY PHOTO
The local Grateful Dead tribute crew plays 60’s and 70’s-era material and celebrates Jerry’s birthday at midnight.
The local folk champ celebrates the Stateside release of his new album California with a full backing band. Staunton singer-songwriter Nathan Moore opens.
Paul Curreri - Once Upon A Rooftop
Paul Curreri - California
Paul Curreri - Long Gone Again
Nathan Moore - Gotta Make It
Nathan Moore - Hollow
Nathan Moore - Understand Under
Nathan Moore - Gotta Be
Nathan Moore - When A Woman
The concert by reggae legend Jimmy Cliff which was originally scheduled for the Charlottesville Pavilion on June 6 has just been postponed due to unspecified travel problems. Apparently Cliff was unable to foresee these particular obstacles.
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Andrew Cedermark and Drunk Tigers team up for the latest mixtape from Harrisonburg label Funny/Not Funny. ALBUM ART
