by Jeff Maisey | May 22, 2025 | Concert Previews, Featured, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Swamp Dogg’s return to the charts he first cracked as Little Jerry Williams from Portsmouth is a zig-zagging journey through musical genres, accidental connections and his attraction as an underground legend. “I’m finding out all...
by Jeff Maisey | May 20, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
( Zemlinsky Quartet by Ilona Sochorová) By Montague Gammon III A prodigy composer and piano virtuoso, a crusty old alcoholic and a middle-aged deaf musician who turned the musical world on its figurative and maybe literal ear, are all one colossus who still bestrides...
by Jeff Maisey | May 13, 2025 | Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts Punch Brothers have performed all over Virginia—from FloydFest to Richmond to Wolftrap, but they’ve never been to Hampton Roads. That will change on May 13, when the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band performs at the Sandler Center for the Performing...
by Jeff Maisey | May 4, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Tracii Guns briefly was part of a marriage of Los Angeles bands named Guns N’ Roses, but he left before fame arrived to found Sunset Strip sleaze metal group L.A. Guns. While he has been in and out of other groups over the last 40 years,...
by Jeff Maisey | May 3, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey In mid-May, post indie Brit-pop sensation Vinny Peculiar will release a new collection of songs under the album title “Things Too Often Left Unsaid,” but not before he vacations in Norfolk (Virginia) — of all places — to visit with friends. While in...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Founding singer Danny Hutton. Photo courtesy of Three Dog Night) By Jeff Maisey In 1993, hitmakers Three Dog Night were the last band to headline the Virginia Beach Dome, but don’t expect founding singer Danny Hutton to necessarily remember the venue. “If you showed...
