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Snap: Giving up the discs

music-cornerdiscmelissabrad DJ Melissa McKenna and Program director Brad Savage hand out free CDs containing new tracks by artists popular on their radio station, 106.1 The Corner, Wednesday night, November 18 on the Downtown Mall. The station is showcasing two of the on-disc artists at a Saturday night concert at V. Earl (...)

Booze in the blender: Jimmy Buffett rocks Charlottesville

culture-music-jimmybuffett I think my wife and I don't get out enough. We won two free tickets to the November 17 Jimmy Buffett concert in Charlottesville from a local newspaper's contest. It was wonderful.  We walked in from the law school smugly watching what appeared to be all of Virginia streaming into the John Paul Jones (...)

Jefferson Theater almost finished

news-jefferson-peek Crews are putting the finishing touches on the 1912 Jefferson Theater in anticipation of its long-awaited re-opening as a four-level music hall. In this November 17 photo, the 1915 plasterwork by French sculptor Victor Pierret (he had to re-do his work after a devastating fire three years after the (...)

Interview- Trashy, but not garbage: Jon Spencer still force to reckon with

ht Sometimes it takes an artist a lifetime to perfect a sound -- just ask Jon Spencer of the rockabilly duo Heavy Trash. Spencer, who admits he came to music "quite late," has been heavily involved with it since the '80s, most notably with his eponymous blues-punk band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. (...)

Buzz- Worn in, but not out: Local punk rockers return to post-hardcore history

worn_in_red Hard-working hardcore punk quartet Worn In Red brought together guitarists Joe Lusk and Brendan Murphy, bassist Matt Neagle, and drummer Brad Perry in 2007, all previously acquainted from their various punk and rock bands in Richmond and Charlottesville. In fact, it was from local punk predecessors (...)

  • Snap: Giving up the discs
  • Booze in the blender: Jimmy Buffett rocks Charlottesville
  • Jefferson Theater almost finished
  • Interview- Trashy, but not garbage: Jon Spencer still force to reckon with
  • Buzz- Worn in, but not out: Local punk rockers return to post-hardcore history
tonight's Spotlight

Daughtry

John Paul Jones Arena
November 20, 7:30pm
$31.50-$41.50

It’s about fifteen years too late for transplanted former Fluco and American Idol fan fave Chris Daughtry’s eponymous band to get away with making what effectively amounts to overproduced mid-90’s alt-rock, but they still managed to pull off one of the biggest debut albums in history a couple years back. You’ve probably heard bits of the new one, Leave This Town, all over mainstream rock radio — you know, right before you change the station.

Openers Theory Of A Deadman have been doing similar schlock for even longer than Daughtry, having apparently decided to shamelessly clone the vocal delivery of Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger after he signed on as producer for their 2002 debut.

Also featuring Cavo, who are probably pretty lame too. Judged by the company you keep, fellas.

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Joe Purdy

The Southern
November 20, 8:00pm
$12-$15

Singer-songwriter whose tunes you’ve likely heard during the most dramatic moments of hour-long TV medical dramas and also shortly after the plane crash on Lost, although maybe that never even happened in the first place given the time-traveling retcon malarkey at the end of last season’s finale. Multi-instrumentalist Julie Peel, previously featured on compilation tribute albums dedicated to the Pixies, Neil Young, and the Cure, opens with material from her own debut record.

Corsair

Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
November 20, 8:30pm
$5

Corsair
Photo by Andrew Shurtleff

Space-lovers who take their cues from Iron Maiden and 70’s rock. The Great Eastern and I Love You open.

Corsair - Last Night On Earth
Corsair - Space Is A Lonely Place
Corsair - Starcophagus


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