Happy Monday, all. A few points of interest—
- The Artist Farm, the local management agency that represents the Infamous Stringdusters and Jesse Harper, is working to found a new local festival. Most of the details haven’t been announced, but what we do know is this: the lineup will be curated by the Stringdusters, it’ll happen on October 9 and 10 at Devil’s Backbone Brewery, and it’s called The Festy. The Devil’s Backbone website says, "Everything is being prepared to make October 9th-10th the best weekend of your life."
- UVA is hosting Matmos for Digitalis, the music department’s annual celebration of computer music. The Baltimore-based electronic duo has been mashing pop with musique concrete for 15 years, and—the highest order of legitimacy—they collaborated with Bjork…more than once! They’re lecturing at 3:30 today at UVA, before a performance tomorrow night at 8pm. Not to be missed. Get the details here.
- I checked out hometown heroes Parachute at the Jefferson Theater on Friday. What can I say? They were great. Like the magic dust in Chicken McNuggets, aspects of the Parachute concert experience are scientifically derived to make humans want more. For one, they looked like pros, starting with ecstatic frontman Will Anderson: Though his piano was turned toward the side of the stage, he craned his neck to gaze over the sold out crowd. Stripped of the studio sheen, they sounded almost like the garage band they once were. As "Words Meet Heartbeats" (from last year’s Losing Sleep) crashed to a close, and the lights left the room, I received a stunning, if minor, revelation: I am a Parachute fan.
Parachute’s "Mess I Made."
What did you think of the show?