An exciting year for music
By Arts & Entertainment Staff | May 1, 2016From heart-pounding rock shows to simple folk experiences, Charlottesville’s music scene has lit up with talent this year.
From heart-pounding rock shows to simple folk experiences, Charlottesville’s music scene has lit up with talent this year.
“Jews on a Plane”, the season 3 finale of Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” is in many ways a fitting end to the show’s most eclectic season.
In his follow-up to "Boyhood," Richard Linklater tackles a retro take on the weekend before classes begin at a Texas College in his typical laid back yet thought provoking style.
With his sophomore effort, Ferg elevates his artistry to new levels with a versatility that is absent from his first album.
By largely the same team that brought us “Broad City,” “Time Traveling Bong” takes stoner humor and creates an entire miniseries around smoking weed.
The question on fans’ minds since last season’s premiere has been the fate of Jon Snow: is he truly dead?
Last week, indie and psychedelic rock band White Denim visited The Southern for a night of rock music, dancing, hollering and all-around good fun.
Season four of “Inside Amy Schumer” rolled out to somewhat of a rocky start for the comedian who could do no wrong in 2015.
The music is a poignant, personal and powerful meditation on identity, relationships and black feminism — all of which is magnified by the film itself.
In 11 minutes total, the band pairs polished subtle accompaniments with incredibly raw and intimate lyrics to give listeners a unique mix of complicated, circular emotions and technique.
If asked what kind of music they’re into, the vast majority of college students would offer the same response: “I pretty much listen to everything except country.” This is a sentiment Sturgill Simpson knows too well.
“Hold/Still,” the new album from Canadian rock band Suuns, is not a body of work that one can easily dissect.
Although Dilla’s legacy primarily lies in his production skills, his latest posthumous release, “The Diary,” finds him stepping into the studio as a rapper.
Followers of twentieth century spy fiction ought to be delighted by the news of a miniseries adaptation of a John le Carré novel. Originally aired in February on BBC in England, “The Night Manager,” one such adaptation, premiered on AMC in America this week.
Mac DeMarco’s last full-length release, “Another One”, debuted in August of 2015, but fans are beginning to get a bit antsy for the Canadian artist to put out another one of his eight-track recorded masterpieces.
Kid Cudi dropped the hot new track “All In” on his Soundcloud with little warning April 15.
Few shows have ever boasted a jokes-per-minute ratio as high as “Unbreakable.”
Though the girls, and guys, have had their fair share of ups and downs this season, this satisfying conclusion sets them on the path to becoming self-actualized adults and gives them wide open storylines for the final season.
Disney’s trend of remaking their animated films continues with “The Jungle Book,” the classic tale of the man-cub Mowgli.
The existence of the Shortys speaks to the ever-increasing influence of short-form, digital content on the entertainment world as a whole.