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Drive-By Truckers park 'Creation's Dark' in stores

Drive-By Truckers have been known for their modern Southern rock records, but they whip out the acoustic guitars for their new album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark. Though most of the Drive-By Truckers were raised in northern Alabama, guitarists/vocalists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley started the band in Athens, Ga.


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MGMT brings the quirks

On the way to a Light of Truth Universal Shrine in middle-of-nowhere Virginia I was listening to MGMT's new album, Oracular Spectacular, watching pine trees and random diners fly by.


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OFFscreen

The foreign and independent film selections at your local Blockbuster are not very impressive. Asian horror films that have been remade by Hollywood, the latest quirky coming-of-age story starring a hip, young actor and Life is Beautiful are all the store has in stock.


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From the desk of the Editors:

You may be asking yourself, "Case Blackwell and Jeannette Williams? Who the hell are they?" Well, while we aren't exactly University celebrities, for a year now we've been running the Cav Daily single (or double)-handedly and with an iron fist.


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Monster Madness

You've got to hand it to J.J. Abrams. He really knows how to sell his work. He also knows how to keep his fans in the dark.


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Sounds of the season for when the jingles get old

Like clockwork, every holiday season numerous high-profile artists release new albums in attempt to cash in on the shopping frenzy that occurs between Black Friday and Christmas Eve. This year, however, the big-name releases are heavily focused on the hip-hop and R&B genres.


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Some aural satisfaction

Being from Richmond, I've always had an attraction to things that are distinctly Southern -- and I'm not talking about the Confederate flag or Duke basketball.


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The Cure to musical drought

Must be something about 1989. When I looked up that fantastic year on Wikipedia, I found out several great facts: The Berlin Wall was torn down; The Stone Roses' self-titled album debuted (reviewed last week); Seinfeld premiered; the last golden toad was seen (now extinct); and finally, The Cure's Disintegration was unveiled. The Cure formed in 1976 in Sussex, when its members were fresh out of their teens.


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Dawn of a new Shakespeare

Many people who frequent the theatre or English majors would recognize the lines "If music be the food of love play on" or "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." What many don't know is that these lines are from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the U.Va.

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