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Win tickets to Starr Hill Brewery's 11.11.11 Anniversary Party!

Are you on the list for Starr Hill Brewery's 11-11-11 Anniversary Party? If not, the Dish is here to say we can get some of you into the party of fall parties at the Jefferson Theater on Friday, November 11. The folks at Starr Hill are going to be offering special brews (in

Duo interview: Inside the sweet harmony of the Civil Wars

In a way, Joy Williams and John Paul White owe their success to uncertainty. Williams had stepped away from her career as a Christian artist and White had seen his debut album for Capitol get hung up in record business purgatory when they met at a songwriting camp and found

Interview: Behind the curtain with Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Malkmus needs no introduction in this town. A former UVA student, he co-founded the influential indie band Pavement in 1989 as a studio project that developed such a rabid following that it eventually embarked on several tours throughout the 1990s (and even a reunio

Nathan Williams: "Steven and I just went into a studio and just played and smoked weed and recorded it."

Bong passers: Wavves the new John Williams?

Wavves is the brainchild of Nathan Williams, a San Diego stoner specializing in punk rock best suited for smoking and skateboarding. His first two albums were buzzed-about solo records put together at his parents house to combat fits of boredom. But then Williams recruited

Hometown favorites: This Parachute floats upward

Arguably the most successful ensemble to break out of Charlottesville since Dave Matthews Band, Parachute– aka the group formerly known as Sparky's Flaw– returns home with friends in high places, international tours under their belt, and a sophomore album releas

Interview: Over The Rhine on letting go, and being better for it

After more than 20 years as domestic and songwriter partners, Over The Rhine's Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist live on a farm outside of Cincinnati, making music that's intelligent and poetic without being pretentious, Bergquist's soulful vocals above bucolic music re

Seriously, why you guys gotta be so difficult about this?

So who wants two free tickets to see the Clipse at the Jefferson Theater on Saturday?

Acclaimed Virginia Beach rap duo The Clipse will roll through town on Saturday for a concert at the Jefferson Theater, and we've got your free tickets right here. But why has this taken so freaking long?

Photos: TV On The Radio at the Jefferson Theater

Indie rock kingpins TV On The Radio were one of the Jefferson Theater's biggest recent scores. A lot of you folks probably didn't make it since the April 9 show sold out, but invaluable shutterbug Tom Daly has you covered.

Indie rocker and Austinite Ben Kweller started the night off with quirky ballads and F-bomb laden folk rock.

Jefferson Swoonfest: Yorn and Kweller take Charlottesville

Pete Yorn, a 36-year-old New Jersey native, captured the hearts of hot-blooded Americans with his debut rock album, musicforthemorningafter, in 2001. Rolling Stone named him one of the "Ten Artists to Watch" that year. In Charlottesville, he partnered with multi-intrumental

Interview: Picking away at the hard questions with the Carolina Chocolate Drops

Dom Flemons and his band have an uphill battle as long as one of our culture's prevailing images of a black man in a cowboy hat is Sheriff Bart from Mel Brooks' satirical western Blazing Saddles. The Carolina Chocolate Drops are an all-black string band that plays tradition