Shining an admittedly small spotlight on our rich Charlottesville live music scene.
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: 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?
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.
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.)
Adam’s Plastic Pond at Fa5.
Bazz caught APP “throwing out shimmering, angular indie grooves” that make him forget about the week he just had. Doozy.
HBD Durty Nelly’s.
Monday was the old gal’s 47th and her haggard beauty was on full display.
See every live show in Cville in one place.
Old Hank and Bazz jack jawin’ about a new page on the site that’ll get you up to speed on all the shows in town every month.
Reasons to Wreck: Üga Büga.
Üga Büga reminded everyone at the Southern that rock and roll, real rock and roll, isn’t dead, it’s just been loading up on ammo.
Reasons to Wreck: Shagwuf.
As promised, we’re working our bb’s off to get you up to speed on the bands you need to see at Wreckfest in September. And now…Shagwuf.
Fa5: Jesse’s Houze, Sally Rose and a Song.
Want another example of the interwoven, prolific, beautiful relationships between these bands and musicians runnin’ up and down this section of the Blue Ridge? Here you go.
Reasons to Wreck: The Currys.
We’re here to get you up to speed on everything you need to know to get ready for this first ever IX Art Park Music Festival. First up, The Currys!
Wreckfest!
This September, Charlottesville is getting its own music festival called Wreckfest! Disco Risque horn section and festival organizer Ryan Calonder gives us the skinny in this ridiculously informative CSC Vlog.
Kai Crowe-Getty Album Release Pt 3: The Wreckage.
Kai has written a profound and moving account of familial wreckage—surviving it by leaning on family, friends and the soil from which he came to rise above it, scarred but wise.
Kai Crowe-Getty Album Release, Part 2: Merch Table Talk with Rebecca Porter.
Rebecca tells us she’s playing Kennedy Center as part of her Roll With the Punches album release after ripping a set filled with anthemic working class themes.
Kai Crowe-Getty Album Release, Part 1: Genna Matthew
One story, one song shattered the room and set a profoundly high writer’s bar for Rebecca and Kai to reach later that evening.
Heaviside Expands the Cville Soundscape.
There’s a new sound in Cville taking Bazz back to his 20’s. Luckily he wandered back to his 40’s the next morning and filed this report.
Dropping Julia owns the room at Rapture.
The Mysterious Jon files this report from the jazzier side of the tracks as Jules and her guys turn the place into their very own living room.
Stapleton brings the Fam to JPJ.
With Morgane’s voice wrapped around his like smoke, the emotional weight of these songs hit with beautiful precision.
TGIF! Dogwood Tales at Fa5.
Dogwood Tales tell stories in that authentic Blue Ridge way. Then they jam the story out in a shoe gaze, grab somebody willing and dance real close kinda way. It’s a unique Alt Country sound that’s all their own.