After a long summer of "SexyBack" references -- how many times does someone need to announce that they're "bringing sexy back?" -- Justin Timberlake released FutureSex/LoveSounds, his sophomore album after a four-year hiatus. Everyone has heard the album's first single "SexyBack" -- mainly just because they wanted to understand the hourly references to it.
On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Charlottesville experienced an indie-rock invasion of novel proportions. Indie-rock sensation The Flaming Lips played for the first time in Charlottesville at the Pavilion to a very large, very excited crowd. The Flaming Lips were preceded by experimental rock band Deerhoof.
I'm drawn to bands that take their title of "music artists" seriously. I search record stores for the newest sounds to startle my senses.
With a new album entitled I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, what exactly do the indie rock veterans Yo La Tengo wish to say?
For those of you who may be turned off by The Album Leaf's presence on The O.C.: Mix 2, consider this -- the band has also opened for Sigur Rós. These guys are a little more than Orange County and a little less than Iceland, or maybe it's the other way around.
For fans of The Mars Volta, 2005's Francis the Mute was a mixed blessing. The band continued its exploration of experimental progressive rock, building upon and expanding the frantic energy of their first full-length, 2003's De-Loused in the Comatorium.
They bounded on stage, clad in their traditional black, clutching their instruments, their extensions of themselves.
"Shinshi-Shinshi" is defined as a sexual act involving the male genitalia and its penetration of the ear canal.
John Mayer may be waiting on the world to change, but for many Mayer fans, the world already has.
Let's see here. Grizzly Bear is often labeled as "indie-folk" or "freak-folk," like Animal Collective.
On August 29, Pete Yorn released Nightcrawler, his much-anticipated follow up to 2001's debut album, musicforthemorningafter and his less-successful sophomore release, Day I Forgot.
Becoming Tarantino doesn't need to remain a pipe dream. Her Infidel, currently one of the most ambitious film projects on Grounds, is largely written, directed, shot, cast and acted by students armed only with a penchant for mafia movies.
Beyoncé's newest album, B'Day, was completed in a two-week stint so that it could debut Sept. 5, the same day as her birthday.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... Ben Affleck! Sorry about that, but it's best to go ahead and get that cliché over with right away, don't you think? More than 25 years before Christopher Reeve donned the red cape, an actor named George Reeve brought joy to countless numbers of children every weekend in the "Adventures of Superman." Despite his success in the series, Reeves committed suicide in June of 1959. OR DID HE? This question is the backbone of the film Hollywoodland, which the Virginia Film Society screened last week to kick off its fall season.
The notorious Rugby Road. Home to one of the biggest social outlets on campus. A spot where students go to meet people, to let loose with friends or maybe even learn a little something new.
I went to see The Covenant expecting very little and got even less. If you've seen the preview for this film then you know what you're getting in to.
Since the 2002 release of their self-titled debut album, Audioslave has been an effective personal defense system for anyone attempting to avoid annoying Rage Against the Machine fans.
David Pajo has quietly built one of the most impressive résumés in indie music, beginning in the early '90s.
Starfox is a franchise tucked away in a corner of my adolescence. It was the first 3-D game I had ever played.
Can't get enough art at U.Va.? Dying to impress that girl in your art history discussion or that boy in studio?
