It's Wednesday night and Cous Cous is packed. I can hardly make it back to the bar to get another beer, so I stand with my empty glass watching Fight the Big Bull play raucously to a full restaurant. The bar is loud and the music is energetic, yet when the music...

I got to the show late, stopped on my way to grab a beer from the bar, and watched the rest of the set from right there. It wasn’t that the band was a precision-tight ensemble of professional speed pickers, or that they were playing a favorite old-time tune of mine....

Is genre-dedicated promotion necessary?  Certainly, promoters tend to stick to one genre or another.  You'll not find a hip-hop promoter pushing a hardcore show, and electronica /rave promoters don't push jazz.  But is the Virginia Metal Alliance really a promoter? ...

SHOW PROFILE: Midnight Soulstice Air Time: 11pm-1am Fridays DJS: DJ Pari and Mr. Felty With an elite repertoire of the greatest soul legends of the sixties and seventies, WRIR’s Midnight Soulstice is the real deal. A radio program that finds it’s reaches all across...

Air Date; 1-3am Saturday Nights/Sunday Mornings DJ: Jason Matty It’s Saturday night and you’re on your way home or to some late night diner or just to keep the night alive for a few more hours. While en route, you might want to tune into WRIR to hear The Lounge. Air...