Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone...
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Gogol Bordello!
It’s the type of music that grabs you by the back, that throws its arms around your shoulders and caries you with bounding elation into the benevolent fray of jumping and dancing concertgoers. It chucks Molotov cocktails through speakers and reads your tarot cards, it...
Preview: Virginia Film Festival
This year the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville has welcomed a new leader. Veteran film festival director, filmmaker and actor Jody Kielbasa has joined the University of Virginia as the new director of the Virginia Film Festival. Kielbasa comes to the...
Secluded Sounds: A Profile of Shdwply Records
In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of fresh air to run across a label that manages to not only to be self-sustainable In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of...
Work Is Never Over: Rebecca Loebe at the House of Real Toys
It might be hard to formulate a definable preconception of music described as “post-brontosaurus indie/folk crunk”, and to be honest, I don’t really know what it means. But it’s cute, and if the press photos are any indication, so is the musician self-applying that...
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