I love finding a wild card for this column. This week we have one of my favorite sings of my youth, a lovely collection of locals, and a little harp because I have free will and so do you. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your...
This Friday at Friday Cheers on Brown's Island, RVA's own Black Girls is opening for Seattle alt-folk sensations The Head and the Heart. This is not the first encounter that Black Girls, who've spent the past few years earning a huge bear hug from the Richmond music scene with their soulful indie sound (nicknamed "snuff rock"), have had with The...
It had been a long road to reach this day, but it finally arrived after months of hard work for Nate Igor Smith. The project he took on to help capture the legacy of his lost friend, Ross Harman, had finally come to fruition. Both of Harman’s Ballpoint Pens releases would see new life on vinyl, along with a double-vinyl pressing of a tribute...
Pack your bags. Drive across the country. Join a band. This all seems like a movie plot we’ve seen time and time again--a plot many of us are unable to think of in a realistic light. For those who have ventured down this path do not often reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Following your dream and leaving those who care about you behind...
It is around 3:30PM and we're in South Beach Studios in Miami Beach, Florida, shooting a music video with Pharrell Williams. Alex Germanotta, the DP of the video and I began talks with VA natives Clipse a little while ago. We wanted to shoot a video off of their album Till the Casket Drops, which features Pharrell, and fellow Virginia native...
