Music Stories
My Dog Lucy: Genuine tunes, tight craftI would like all red-blooded American consumers out there who are taught to buy and sell with complete disregard for the consequences and repercussions to please join in this chant: Bigger is Better...read more Aug 22nd, 2002
Vandyke Brown: Stop the 'DykeSearch for Vandyke Brown on Google, and you'll discover that, in addition to a Charlottesville band, it's a relatively cheap printing method. In the Vandyke Brown technique, ferric salts, household...read more Aug 22nd, 2002
BelezaBy Mark Grabowski Beleza, Wednesday night regulars at Tokyo Rose, are a walking history lesson. Wednesday is often a stay-at-home evening, when folks reflect on the debauchery of Tuesday night and...read more Aug 1st, 2002
Slow Children at SERP House on Rugby Road"I can't believe more people didn't leave"– M.C. Muffin.    So maybe they've played only two shows. So maybe they were both at M.C. Muffin's frat house. So what? Slow Children aren't...read more Aug 1st, 2002
Buttah at OrbitBy Damani Harrison The weather lately has got me all messed up. Monday I was suffering from a near-migraine type sinus headache caused by the changes in pressure and humidity. I figured I needed to...read more Jul 18th, 2002
Jim Waive at the Blue Moon DinerBy Amy Briggs The products of serious effort have a certain mystique. Well-written correspondence, elaborate tattoos, quilts, graffitied tableaux, log cabins, tended gardens, project cars in the...read more Jul 18th, 2002
Anomoanon at Tokyo Rose  By Mark Grabowski We were all in a state of flux at Tokyo Rose last Thursday night. Pulling us down into the basement club was Anomoanon (I believe it rhymes with "phenomenon"), folk-rock at...read more Jul 4th, 2002
Claiborne & Company at Durty Nelly's, Friday, June 28By Damani Harrison My first encounter with Richelle Claiborne was at the Live Arts production of The Wiz earlier this year in which Richelle played the role of the Scarecrow. Her mighty natural hair...read more Jul 4th, 2002
CD review: They Might Be Giants' No!By Amy Briggs TV gives smarty-pants a bum rap. Limned as nerds and mad scientists, they are constantly lampooned as the guys into fogging up their thick glasses and singeing their hair, the ones who...read more Jun 27th, 2002
The Chocolate WorkshopBy Damani Harrison About two months ago my man Clarence calls me up.“Yo, D,” he says, “how ‘bout coming out and kicking some rhymes at the Outback Lodge on Wednesday. Andy Rowland and Matt Ferguson...read more Jun 27th, 2002
Lot 6, The Kills, and Order of Dying OrchidBy Amy Briggs Overall, Wednesday night at Tokyo Rose ended up well worth the five dollars, once again. However, Lot 6, the opener from Boston, never quite ascended the 43 steps to memorable modern...read more Jun 20th, 2002
Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival, May 31-June 2By Tayloe Emery If the recent Graves Mountain Bluegrass Festival is any barometer of cool, then the Appalachian strip and the mountain music scene are due for a revival of epic proportions. For the...read more Jun 20th, 2002
World beatsBy Damani Harrison Dr. Didg at the Outback and Corey Harris and the 5X5 at Starr Hill Music Hall, Saturday, June 8.This whole World Cup thing has got me screwed up. The games begin at 2 in the am and...read more Jun 13th, 2002
Steve Ingham, Sarah White, and Atsushi Miura at Tokyo RoseBy Amy Briggs My hair started turning white two years ago. Every few days I find a new strand blanching from youth into old age. I hold my Mondays fully responsible. It's the sobering return to...read more Jun 6th, 2002
Alias J. Pinkerton, Carl Washington and Giant People, and Summer Spark-- all over townBy Damani Harrison Q: What happens when the students decamp and leave Charlottesville to us locals? A: We party hard. Friday saw an all-night rager go down on Water Street, last in a series of rump-...read more Jun 6th, 2002
Oratorio Society at Old Cabell HallBy Amy Briggs Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, his controversial final composition, has been the topic of endless scholarly debates. During the early days of his decline into mental instability, Mozart...read more May 30th, 2002
My Morning Jacket at Starr HillMark my words: Louisville, Kentucky, is the next big thing in the world of indie music.With success stories like the Strokes and White Stripes making indie the "in" thing (and thus "out" for the...read more May 30th, 2002
Robert Jospe's Inner Rhythm at Rapture; William Walter & Tucker Rogers at OrbitBy Damani Harrison One can easily distinguish those players who have found harmony with their instrument and those who are still working out the kinks. I find myself dipping in and out of venues...read more May 23rd, 2002
Darrell Rose and the Afrikan Drum FestivalBy Amy Briggs Nothing stirs the mind like a little bit of music. In retirement homes, it means entertainment in the lounge; in preschools, it gets the kids reaching for their heads, shoulders, knees...read more May 23rd, 2002
Wilco: Yankee Hotel FoxtrotBy Mark Grabowski I have balls of steel. You want proof? Other than my exceptional “standing up to bullies” ratio (5 confrontations: 1 turning the other cheek), and my no-fear method of taking tests...read more May 16th, 2002