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Rising from the rich depths of Vic Chesnutt’s singular voice on his apocalyptic lullaby “Warm” is the line forget the sun/ worship the moon. In this moment of this song lies the distilled message that defines and illuminates his body of work: so the apocalypse is nigh, global warming has got us, everything is destroyed- what now? At this moment, Chesnutt proposes a gesture of both capitulation and defiance- just turn away, turn to something else, like that shimmering antihero the moon. It’s often the seemingly lesser power which turns out to hold a greater promise. Over and over again, Chesnutt’s music rises to laud the antiheroes, the underdogs. Opening with a track titled "Coward," the flickering shadows of Caliban and Gregor Samsa loom large over his latest album, At the Cut. Currently touring this newest--and obviously favorite--achievement, Vic took some time out to speak with us about how this compromised pose of the antihero, the outsider, came to define his sound. It was forced upon him very early in his musical career, which was altered forever when a car accident at age eighteen constrained him to a wheelchair and threw him on path to alter in turn the folk genre into which he’d been born. more ›

Vic Chesnutt is currently touring in support of his latest record, At The Cut, and from this album and its tour are trailing an entourage of indie notables. Featuring Guy Picciotto of Fugazi and David Payant of Silver Mt. Zion, the Vic Chesnutt band wraps up its tour with a show that promises to be a singularly appropriate pairing between band and venue at Central Presbyterian Church. We’re excited about this one, because church rafters seem to be the natural habitat of Vic Chesnutt’s voice—a voice so compelling it isn’t outdone even by the instruments of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. more ›