Shining an admittedly small spotlight on our rich Charlottesville live music scene.
Heaviside, Post-Hardcore, and Why Any of This Matters.
Post Hardcore Bazz catches us up with a really good local band and breaks down the genre that defines him.
Will Overman hosts Sunday Evening Services at the Southern.
Will Overman brought Holy Roller RVA and Ramona Martinez to the Southern for the final show of his Stranger Tour and inspired Old Hank to dig around for an apt metaphor for how good it felt.
Found one!
Thumbnail photo credit: Tristan Williams
Rebecca Porter’s Halloween Country Creep Show at Durty Nelly’s.
Clear your schedule for Thursday Oct. 30 cuz Rebecca Porter is hosting the annual Country Creep Show (with Highwater and Jules Kresky, which is even more icing on an already devilshly good pumpkin spice cupcake.)
Prabir Mehta’s Journey.
The dude genre hops like water over stones. Who has the best Petty cover band around? Who marries Indian Raag to American Rock and Roll? Who plays Classical Indian Music at Durty Nelly’s? This guy.
Call Jon Tyler Wiley by his name.
Wiley is the type of musician only Virginia raises. And we just love him to death. Go see the man, solo or with his band—His Virginia Choir—any time you can.
Jonathan Paige Brown Jr. is about to go big at RVa Folk Fest.
We caught JPB Jr. at the Virginia Day Party and he tore the venerable 5 Spot a new @hole. The voice is real. The charisma is inarguable. He’s playing the Richmond Folk Fest Sunday. Get there any way you can.
Ramona and the Holy Smokes’ perfect night.
Ramona’s fans packed the Southern on this rainy night. The Holy Smokes never sounded better. It was more than a record release party, it was a Charlottesville homecoming, and it did not disappoint. So click thru and saddle up for a great interview.
Erin Lunsford is on a mission.
Erin’s goal with her “Strawberries” tour is to begin to shift the “scarcity” mindset — one that focuses on getting mine first and the hell with everyone else — to an “abundance” mindset where there is plenty to go around and it’s high time we started sharing it.
Overman: The Sidetracks Interview
It’s just so much fun to see one of our favorite artists at the peak of their powers making a run. Will has never sounded better. His full length record Stranger is crushing the reviews. And the sky is the limit.
Reasons to Wreck: Lord Nelson.
Cville, If Lord Nelson were the only band playing Wreckfest on the weekend of September 20-21, you should buy tickets and plan accordingly. (Of course they aren’t the only band playing Wreckfest but we’re just making a point.)
Wreckfest Sunday.
There were pretty puddles at IX reflecting soft light — a pink and baby blue sky. The air was washed and ready for the day. The bands were ready. Wreckfest Sunday morning came down.
Wreckfest Saturday Afternoon.
If Saturday night at the first ever Wreckfest was a crescendo of Charlottesville sound and fury, this is how it was built. Saturday afternoon.
Wreckfest Saturday Nite.
2 days, 17 bands, 3 stages and an insane number of moving parts came together to make one f@cking great weekend of music.
Hurry in and watch the first cut!
Reasons to Wreck: Orion Redwolf.
We caught up with Orion Redwolf for an interview after his performance last week in Nashville at the VA Day Party at Americana fest. You are definitely gonna wanna catch him at Wreckfest on Sunday!
Reasons to Wreck: Gia Ray.
One of our amazing Cville Wreckfest artists, Gia sat down with Old Hank for an interview at Durty Nelly’s. If you haven’t got your dang tickets yet, what the Sam Diddly are you waitin’ for?
The Virginia Day Party at AMERICANAFEST
Words can’t describe the magic of this day in Nashville and our love for these Virginia Artists. You’ll just have to watch. It’s long form so get a bevvy and popcorn.
Reasons to Wreck: Dan Randlemanson
Old Hank sat down with Dan and tried his level best to do a professional job with this interview that covers everything from Dan’s rise to prominence as a journalist, to his fixation with some sort of coming apocalypse, to his early years in the fashion business.
The Beautiful Ferocity of Holy River.
This duo is showing us how to make change. By getting out there and working, everyday. In important, DIY, messy, thankless, gratifying, PMA, apolitical kinda ways.
Erynn McLeod is on a Tear.
Erynn’s story is a study in how what can look like overnight success is actually a (young) lifetime of hard work. Old Hank interviews and Bazz covers the show. Dig in.
Skorts, Pinkish and Jaquardini charge the Southern’s ions.
Dr. E logs his first CSC report on a lush night of sweet distortion at the Southern.