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Snuff Presented Lifetime Achievement Award
Virginia Beach-based country-rock band Snuff was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Veer Music Awards on February 10. This mini-documentary was shown during the ceremony. Produced by Jay Sanchez [video width="480" height="270"...
Beach Boys Still Ride Musical Wave
By Jeff Maisey Everyone knows a Beach Boys melody. Name a song instantly the tune is recognizable – “Good Vibrations,” “Surfer Girl,” “I Get Around,” “Surfing USA.” It’s a list as long as an endless summer! When Bruce Johnston joined the band in 1965,...
Bell’s Beethoven Recital a Must-see
By Montague Gammon III A one-time subway busker – tall, good-looking and possessed of a multi-million dollar 1713 Stradivarius violin, a six-figure valued Tourte bow and prodigious, priceless talent – kicks off the classical music part of Virginia Arts...
Love it to Death: Virginia Opera stages the romantic Romeo and Juliet
By Montague Gammon III “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” is hardly the sort of comment that the French born and accented, multi-lingual, multi-talented stage director-actor-designer-librettist-novelist-online journalist-educator-manager and all around theatre...
PREVIEW: The Hampton Years
By Jerome Langston I've always been deeply passionate about theater," explains playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton during a recent phone call about her fascinating new play, The Hampton Years, which is being produced and presented by the Virginia Stage Company...
Stay Off the Stage: An interview with Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe
By Jeff Maisey World renown metal band Lamb of God returns to Hampton Roads in support of its latest album, “VII: Sturm Und Drang,” which debuted at #2 on Billboard’s US Top Current Albums chart. The Richmond-based group also received a Grammy nomination...
Mothers Give Birth to Experimental Pop
By Jeff Maisey What happens when you record your debut album more than a year before it’s released? In the case of Athens, Georgia experimental pop group Mothers, you tour with the likes of Of Montreal and garner favorable press exclaiming you’re one of...
Controversy Surrounds New Left Wing Fascists Album
By Jim Morrison "Big Al" Staggs of the long-loved and long-absent band Left Wing Fascists likes to say that the group's latest album, "Oxymoron," avoided the usual studio fisticuffs of decades ago because the parts were recorded separately. Longtime guitarist Scott...
Kinky Boots Kicks Up its Heels at Chrysler Hall
By Jerome Langston Speaking to actor J. Harrison Ghee, a North Carolina native who was in Tampa for a Kinky Boots performance at the Straz Center when I recently interviewed him by phone, reminds me of the famous Oscar Wilde quote about life imitating art. Within just...
Musical Innocence of Leon Bridges
By Jim Morrison Only a couple of years ago, Leon Bridges earned a living washing dishes at Del Frisco’s Grille in Fort Worth. He played the open mikes around town, mostly folkie country stuff. “There weren’t many people doing R&B at open mikes,”...
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