My parents always told me I was born in the wrong century. Instead of watching cartoons when I was younger, I'd watch movies like Ever After, Pride & Prejudice and, my favorite, Elizabeth.
You can't judge a book by its cover. This tired phrase can be used to describe more than just The Great Gatsby or Naked Pictures of Famous People.
Back in '88 my mom bought the Cowboy Junkies' second CD, The Trinity Session. The album remained in rotation as I grew up, lead singer Margo Timmons' beautiful, melancholy vocals occasionally serving as the soundtrack to my mom's cooking.
U.Va. students past and present will be granted the opportunity to display their movie-making talents Friday night as the Filmmakers Society holds its fifth-annual Final Cut Showcase, a small festival of short films to be shown free of charge in the Amphitheater. The showcase accepted submissions from both current U.Va.
There seem to be two camps on Wes Anderson -- those who think Wes Anderson represents the paragon of indie culture, and those who think Wes Anderson represents the primer example of elitist, insubstantial filmmaking.
The new Band of Horses has undergone several changes -- the loss of band member Mat Brooke, a move back to their hometown in South Carolina from Seattle, and a unique new way of doing liner notes (a booklet with a series of photographs). Their sound in the new album Cease to Begin, however, has not lost any of its originality.
Put together four talented, energetic guys, homemade instruments and a taste for the unexpected -- sounds like the equation for Mute Math.
Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to Dashboard Confessional even just once before knows their reputation for depressing music is justifiable.
Many U.Va. students, like me, will be recovering Sunday from the crazy events of Homecoming. I am planning to get right cozy in the ever-so-comfy bottom floor of Clemons with a 12-pack of Red Bull and pile of textbooks.
The radio-ubiquitous Matchbox Twenty's new release Exile on Mainstream, the first in nearly five years, is a unique disc that is a hybrid of an EP, a greatest-hits album and bonuses. The greatest-hits portion is an all-encompassing repertoire of the band's radio releases, with a heavy dose from the first breakout album, Yourself or Someone Like You, with super-hits such as "3 AM" and "Real World." The tracks are in chronological order, so it's easy to hear the development of the band.
"Pretty girls don't dance, they just pose to techno," Felix da Housecat says during his new album Virgo Blaktro & The Movie Disco.
It's no secret that the Internet is slowly but surely bringing music labels to their knees. Physical record sales are dropping by phenomenal amounts, online services like iTunes are converting more and more customers every day and consumers continue to turn to sharing programs to download new music.
If only there were some sort of audition process when casting a movie. Oh wait ... There is? Feel the Noise has most of the elements needed to make a decent B movie: a rags-to-riches formulaic storyline, clashing cultural differences eventually melding together, good music and good-looking leads (which, let's face it, made the similar film Step Up bearable). The sheer lack of acting ability, however, becomes apparent very quickly. When Rob (Omarion Grandberry), an aspiring rap artist from Harlem, is arrested for stealing a few hubcaps to pay for the entry fee in a rap competition, his mother sends him to Puerto Rico to live with the father he never knew.
After I got my ticket for the Sept. 27 Bob Dylan concert at John Paul Jones Arena, I studied. I played all my Dylan albums.
Amid the roaring anthems of "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and "The Way I Are," minimal guitar chords and subtle vocals often take the back seat.
In college some people decide to major in some form of ethics -- biomedical, political, environmental, etc.
"There's a story about the Greek gods. They were bored, so they invented human beings. But they were still bored, so they invented love.
Even long-time fans of Iron & Wine, who have observed as Texas-based folkie Sam Beam has taken in more rock and country influences on his past two discs, couldn't have seen this album coming.
It is not easy to write a review about an album that makes your heart swell. Not easy at all. Nearly four days after buying The Weakerthans' newly released album, Reunion Tour, and logging in somewhere around 15 hours of listening time, I am still grappling to lower my oxytocin to a level reasonable enough to write a decently objective article.
Sociologist Herbert Gans, author and professor at Columbia University, is renowned for his theories about the segmentation of culture -- that is, the division of our everyday lives into different groups based on social status, power relations and various values and ideologies.
