With Everyone A Song, Volume Two, Harrisonburg's The Steel Wheels bring us their second collection of songs commissioned by fans -- a collection that reveals the difficult emotions and deep sentiments that lie at the heart of ordinary human experience. The rustic...
I hang out at Bamboo Cafe sometimes. Sometimes Eddie Prendergast is my bartender. A local music legend, which we have covered before, and someone I have seen over a dozen times through out the years with Bio Ritmo, Amazing Ghost to Mikrowaves. Always a great show. Big...
In spite of the contrasts between the two releases, digging into both the new EP from Charlottesville's Gold Connections and their previous EP reveals equally great results. Gold Connections, a Charlottesville-based underground-arena rock band led by...
Virginia Beach's Berries have used the quarantine to put together some new tunes, but what they really look forward to is playing shows again. Berries is a five-piece band out of Virginia Beach that evolved from the high school recording project of singer and...
D.T. Jones wraps his head around Hot Tropic, the brobdignagian 6-hour quadruple LP released a couple years back by zany musical experimentalists Reptile Tile. “One does not simply listen to Hot Tropic. Its black tones are guarded by more than distortion. There are...