FridaysUpdate: Too heavy? Too light? Down Til Now may be just right
In most cases of local up-and-coming bands-- Parachute, most notably, alongside Sons of Bill or 6 Day Bender-- members are recent college grads, living and practicing together 24/7. Yet according to the rockers of local quartet Down Til Now, making waves as an under-the-radar band has its advantages (...)
Forbes ranks DMB 12th biggest earner in music
It's been a good year for Dave Matthews Band. Forbes rates Charlottesville's own as the 12th-biggest grossing music act in the last 12 months, earning $47 million. The financial magazine attributes most of these earnings to touring, sales of their latest album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, and (...)
FridaysUpdate- Open Book: Redefined Chickenhead Band sizzles for Fridays
Local music aficionados should take an old mantra, "Don't judge a book by its cover," and apply it directly to one long-running quintet, according to guitarist Aric van Brocklin. Rather than take Chickenhead Blues Band strictly according to its name, he advises fans to listen closely and hear the new (...)
Two-way: Red Light takes the fork with Parachute, S.O.B.
Two years after they burst onto the Charlottesville music scene, both Parachute and Sons Of Bill are both on their way toward achieving dreams of making a living from the craft they love. In each case, some of the success is due to Red Light Management, the Charlottesville company owned by Coran (...)
FridaysUpdate- The British are coming! The English Channel takes the stage for Fridays
No need to take up arms and bar your doors: the British are coming to Charlottesville, but in the form of Richmond-based cover band The English Channel. Embracing influential British hits of the 60s and 70s, the five-piece band has only one desire-- to keep the music that shaped their lives (...)
- FridaysUpdate: Too heavy? Too light? Down Til Now may be just right
- Forbes ranks DMB 12th biggest earner in music
- FridaysUpdate- Open Book: Redefined Chickenhead Band sizzles for Fridays
- Two-way: Red Light takes the fork with Parachute, S.O.B.
- FridaysUpdate- The British are coming! The English Channel takes the stage for Fridays
Down Til Now
Fridays After FiveJuly 3, 5:30pm
Free
Local rockers. Teen dynamos The Wave open.
The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People
The Wave - Sometimes
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Birdlips and Borrowed Beams Of Light
Twisted Branch Tea BazaarJuly 3, 9:00pm
$5
Check out Nice Jenkins drummer Adam Brock’s new bedroom recording project, “Borrowed Beams Of Light,” which came together when he started working on some solo material with an acoustic guitar during a Jenkins sort-of-hiatus. Featuring members of Corsair fleshing out the instrumental arrangements and Adam Smith taking over the drum kit.
Also appearing: lovely local indie-folk duo Birdlips.
Birdlips - Tire Chains
Birdlips - Some Kind Of Death
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- The Hill and Wood with Chick Tragic and the Roosters (2)
- eli: Might be tight for Sam and Carl to do a tune together between sets. Great voices and same range. Know they'll bring it for this first gig together!
- isvenue: Jesse Harper (Old School Freight Train) is now on the bill with a few friends for an acoustic ste, opening at 8:15, doors at 7:30. Still $5 in advance, $7 at the door.
- Forbes ranks DMB 12th biggest earner in music (1)
- The Burnt Mill Band (1)
- Zombie Bazooka Patrol (1)
- Inside move: Ash Lawn Opera moves to Paramount (4)
- Toma Que Toma (1)
- Blues jam (1)
- Tiger! Tiger! (1)
- DMB scores fifth straight #1 album (3)
- Byrned: Jinx's Pit's Top gets 'Once in a Lifetime' visitor (6)
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