MUSIC

Who knew RVA would throw down in such stellar fashion on a Tuesday?! Who knew RVA would throw down in such stellar fashion on a Tuesday?! The Hat Factory, The Party Liberation Front's DJ Reinhold and DJ Doddie of Audio Ammo, that's who, apparently. The venue and DJ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt band has been reincarnated as young, bearded, stoned-out, eclectic post-modern hipsters. They now call themselves the Futurebirds. Like in their past-lives as banjo-pickin’ yodelers, they still call Athens, Georgia their home base. The Nitty...

Filmmaker Peter Szijarto has put together a 10 part series of music videos for local talent Battle Flags and his debut album Color Engine. There is a video for each catchy song that makes a complete statement about the record. What that statement is - is up to you.

Image taken by Ian M. Graham at The Camel Tonight at The Camel is a show you'll be hearing about all summer. I first encountered The Fox Hunt on a small farm in Three Churches, West Virginia. They were playing my friend Jenny Beth's birthday party on the front porch...

She slips out of her guitar strap and half-tosses the whole thing towards her amp. Grabbing the microphone with both hands she lets out a scream like lightning bolts as the rhythm section treads steadily onwards at her side. There’s over a hundred kids thrashing at...

The anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death was on April 5th 1994 and with his passing died the Seattle grunge band NIrvana. It effectively ended an era in music that has yet to be duplicated and hopefully never will. Grunge and the gansta rap movement redefined American...

Will Oldham, long-associated with dozens of artistic monikers, seems to have settled on both a name under which to record and a more focused approach to songwriting than much of his shambling past efforts. Oldham's approach to songcraft on his most recent album is...