The Rolling Stones' new album A Bigger Bang begins with the lyrics "One time you were my baby chicken/Now you've grown into a fox/Once upon a time/I was your little rooster/But now I'm just one of your cocks." The image of a wrinkled Jagger-phallus notwithstanding, "Rough Justice" is the disc's first and best track.
If you're looking for a big-name band that puts on a fantastic live show, Coldplay's Twisted Logic tour should not be missed. The opening act, Rilo Kiley, an up-and-coming indie band that fuses pop, rock and a hint of blues, played a solid set featuring songs from their third album, More Adventurous.
I believe my jaw could have made it to China if the ground didn't stop it when I first saw this fall's concert line-up for the Satellite Ballroom. The Ballroom has undergone a metamorphosis over the last year.
To hear their voices you'd think that the four members of the Wrens were all twenty-somethings with few cares other than their next party.
I'm going to be honest -- I saw most of The Exorcism of Emily Rose while peeking through my fingers.
Arrested Development, which Entertainment Weekly calls "the funniest show on television," begins its third (and possibly final) season Monday, Sept.
The release of a Bob Dylan album with a slew of familiar song titles may not seem all that exciting to the veteran fan.
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have done it again. Hillbilly Deluxe, their latest CD, walks the thin line between catchiness and meaning.
Chuck Klosterman's latest book purports to be a cross-country journey to the sites where rock stars died -- in Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, he promises to investigate how "the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing." It sounds like a simple concept, but Klosterman makes an obscene amount of pop culture references, including a short play that summarizes every conversation he's had in Los Angeles (a city he loathes), a track-by-track explanation of why Radiohead's Kid A prophesizes September 11, 2001 and a comparison between the girls he has loved and the members of KISS. Long before he deems Thomas Jefferson "hands down, the coolest president in American history," you'll wonder if this is the same book that promised to teach you about dead rock stars.
A leisurely walk can bring calm to the overworked mind, but that walk need not be purely physical.
Mesob Ethiopian Cuisine has a lot of things going for it. The new inhabitant of a prime, though prone to quick turnover, Corner dining venue, it has the advantage of holding a virtual Charlottesville monopoly on traditional Ethiopian cuisine.
Before Kanye West wowed us with his debut album, College Dropout, he produced established artists like Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
Everybody has his or her own story. Imagine yourself back in your last year of high school, sifting through endless college applications, hoping and praying for acceptance into U.Va.
I've had it. I'm serious now -- I have had enough of the somber, self-serving, sniveling, sad-faced music of today.
It seems not so long ago that Bill Murray got laughs by dynamiting gopher puppets and lounge-singing the theme to Star Wars in an open-chested polyester suit.
Music has always had a home in Charlottesville, but in years past, the only place to see larger, nationally touring acts was the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center.
A beat up old Park n' Fly van will putter into Charlottesville Sept. 13 carrying one of the most eclectic bands today.
It's a lot to ask any student at U.Va. who's just spent hundreds of dollars on American Government: 7th Edition, Applied Calculus and Financial Management to get excited about a book recommendation a week into fall semester.
"Maybe one day we'll be able to pull off wearing leather suits," sighed Luke Rabin, the drummer of student band,Wirkus.
We've reached a consensus (a small one) around the office and have found this to be a universal truth: For every situation in life, there's a Beatles song.
