We spent an alternately chilly/beautiful/drunk weekend in Harrisonburg earlier this month and saw some noteworthy jams as part of MACROCK 2017. The annual festival that specializes in lesser-know but still noteworthy acts doubled down on the "lesser known" side which...
MACROCK 2017 celebrates 20 years THIS WEEKEND with weirder tunes and the volunteer, DIY ethos that started it all
It’s been 20 years since James Madison University first hosted MACROCK, once known as the Mid-Atlantic College Radio Conference, but much like the volunteers who organize it, it aims to stay up to date with fresh acts and up and coming bands all set to the quiet town...
There’s tons of RVA bands heading to MACROCK this weekend
If MACROCK was a person, they'd be legal to love on. In it's 19th year, the annual DIY festival held in venues in and around Harrisonburg, VA, continues to be one of the Commonwealth's best and most unique music festivals. If MACROCK was a person, they'd be legal to...
Braxton Congrove Merges Crafts And Performance To Create Unsettling, Memorable Narratives
A huge, brightly colored creature resembling a jellyfish walks up a beach. A large purple monster vomits endless strands of yarn from what seems to be its mouth. An elephantine, faceless being interrogates a statue. These are the sorts of images you will see in...
Harrisonburg Freakout: Malatese Travels East To Wow RVA With Postpunk Noise At Gallery 5 Tonight
Harrisonburg, Virginia’s Malatese make tense and discomfiting music. Combining the lockstep acid-washed grooves of acts like Can and their kraut rock brethren with a manic postpunk frenzy, the band’s sound teeters between moments of sheer rock and roll chaos and terse...
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