If you're looking to discover a new dose of zany and spontaneous indie-rock, lyrics so profound as to really stir you or a full, epic-rock sound grand enough to recall Zeppelin or the Stones, look... further.
As the play's title suggests, the performances of The Violet Hour -- titled after that New York twilight moment when day fades into night -- are strikingly delicate.
Ever since Natalie Portman cued The Shins in Garden State and told Zach Braff, "You gotta hear this song -- it'll change your life," the Portland rockers elevated to a whole new indie pop status.
If you didn't like him before, you may want to tune in. And if you raved about his last album, you may be disgruntled by this artist's noticeable departure from his original flair.
The moment of revelation is approaching. The 19th annual Virginia Film Festival, to be held Oct. 26-29, 2006, has released a promising lineup of over 70 films, arts exhibits and musical performances all elucidating the festival's theme -- Revelations: Finding God at the Movies. The program's mission is to provide a "springboard for discussion and debate," says Paul Wagner, local filmmaker and Academy Award-winning documentarian.
All the King's Men has everything to suggest Oscar greatness -- Academy Award-winning writer/director/producer Steven Zaillan (Schindler's List); an all-star cast of Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo and Sean Penn; the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1946 novel of political intrigue by Robert Penn Warren at its foundation; and a 1949 Oscar-winning original adaptation as its precedent.
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?
