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Captain Fantastic Elton John to play JPJ

Sir Elton John in concert in Alaska in May. PHOTO BY R. ROSENBERGER Sir Elton John, the child piano prodigy turned international superstar, is coming to Charlottesville. Officials with the John Paul Jones arena made the announcement 40 minutes ago via email that the musician will perform in concert (...)

Nine Inch Nails tickets on sale today

Trent Reznor has been quite the busy man in 2008. As Nine Inch Nails, he put out the Internet-only instrumental project Ghosts I-IV in March and the eighth proper NIN studio album The Slip in May. PUBLICITY PHOTO Though its lights may be presently turned off, John Paul Jones Arena is about to get a (...)

Opportunity knocks: Sparky’s Flaw ready for its close-up

Sparky's Flaw plays Friday's After Five this week. PUBLICITY PHOTO Unlike their fellow graduates, the guys of the pop-rock band Sparky's Flaw have found themselves back in their parents' basements. But for an up-and-coming band arked as the next big thing by Charlottesville music sages, the step into (...)

NIN NOW

Nine Inch Nails just sent an email to everyone who bought Ghosts back in March revealing that presale tickets for the November 5 show at the John Paul Jones Arena would be available starting at 5pm today. (For those of you playing along at home, that's right now!) This is part of their ongoing (...)

Snap o’ the day: Beetnix video

Beside the under-construction Landmark Hotel, Damani Harrison of the locally-based hip-hop group Beetnix prepares to shoot a video tonight on the Downtown Mall. Shortly before 7pm, using a none-too-loud boom box to keep time, the band--- "one for the money, two for the brain, three for the pain"--- (...)

Fourteen years later DMB resumes tour, Hootie breaks up

Hootie and the Blowfish's major-label debut Cracked Rear View outsold Dave Matthews Band's Under the Table and Dreaming by 7 million copies. PUBLICITY PHOTOS When both Dave Matthews Band and Hootie and the Blowfish burst onto the national scene with their major label debuts in 1994, it seemed there (...)

  • Captain Fantastic Elton John to play JPJ
  • Nine Inch Nails tickets on sale today
  • Opportunity knocks: Sparky’s Flaw ready for its close-up
  • NIN NOW
  • Snap o’ the day: Beetnix video
  • Fourteen years later DMB resumes tour, Hootie breaks up
tonight's Spotlight

Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs

Paramount Theater
September 8, 8:00pm
$29.50-$59.50

As we learned from his seamless mashing of “King Of The Hill” and Bill Evans’ “Twelve Tone Tune” Bruce Hornsby is a far more advanced and pliable musician than his cheesier synth-laden 80’s-era pop hits might lead you to believe. Here, he reinvents his back catalog within the confines of bluegrass with a little help from iconic monster picker Ricky Skaggs.

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