It was the end of 2014 when the future founders of Crystal Pistol Records realized they might never get their music released. The two men, Justin Black and Pete Curry, had become good friends after playing local shows with some of the same bands. They were spending a...
RVA #29: Riding a wave of enlightenment with Minor Poet
Imagine all of the music you’ll never hear that’s being recorded as you’re reading this sentence. All of the poetry and art coming to life right now that you’ll never lay eyes on. That’s something Andrew Carter thinks about, which makes sense, given that he’s created...
RVA #28: Self-Made & Singular: An Interview with Dazeases
I met up with London Perry, who performs under the name Dazeases, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Best Café on the sunny January Saturday that followed the president's announcement of a Muslim travel ban. She and I talked for a little more than an hour, and near...
RVA #27: Studio Sampler: Finding a recording home in Richmond
There were a couple of years during the second George W. Bush administration when I was playing at Curbside Cafe every Thursday night with an acoustic trio called Captain Slicktalk. During that time, I had a MacBook with Pro Tools installed and (apparently) a ton of...
RVA’s Sleepwalkers defy musical niches, achieve eclectic greatness
What do we talk about when we talk about music? We talk about the immediate sensations. We talk about how it inspires us. We talk about where it will lead us next. When Sleepwalkers talk about music, they talk confidently with a genuine admiration for the songs of the...
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