Louisville rockers My Morning Jacket announced their biggest headlining tour ever yesterday, and it includes a date at the Charlottesville Pavilion on Tuesday, September 9 at 7pm. Tickets go on sale next Friday, May 16 at 10am.
With their distinct blend of country, blues, psychedelic, and prog-r (...)
With music school brainiacs holding down four of the band's five positions, you'd expect Trees On Fire to be prolific enough composers to have more than a single EP under their belt. They're still waiting on the follow-up to last year's The Green Room, but lately they've been logging some time at a (...)
Coming off the success of last year's #1 album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Washington state indie-rockers Modest Mouse are coming to the Charlottesville Pavilion Sunday, June 29 at 7pm. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am.
Modest Mouse seemed like an overnight success when their (...)
When Eli Cook released Electric Holy Fire Water in 2006, he was 20 years old and had already figured out how to put a clever new spin on an old musical form. Although his earlier acoustic album had been relatively traditional, working with a band prompted him to reach out into the '90s alt-rock (...)
Ryan Adams may be the reigning prince of that hippest of folky sects marketed as "alt-country," but even he must realize that he owes a hefty debt to the Jayhawks. As one-half of that group's core compositional duo, Mark Olson helped create country-rock that appealed to traditionalists as readily as (...)
In most cases, appointing yourself as monarch of anything is probably cruisin' for a bruisin', but given that there aren't too many rock bands rehearsing on Meridian Street, the Kings of Belmont are probably okay for the time being.
This may be a rags-to-riches story in the making, though-- th (...)
