by Jeff Maisey | Feb 12, 2019 | Music, Music News
(A capacity crowd at Granby Theatre in Norfolk for the Veer Music Awards. Photo by Ray White) By Jeff Maisey Veer Magazine presented its 8th annual Music Awards on February 12 at Granby Theater in Norfolk. Local bands, musicians, and industry folks in nearly 40...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 7, 2019 | Music, Music News
By Buck E. Down Arguably the most successful band to emerge from Norfolk’s golden era in the late 1980s/early ‘90s, Caroline Records recording artist Combine will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Veer Music Awards February 12 at Granby...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 31, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Rayland Baxter’s original plan to write songs for his latest album was to rent a cabin. That proved too expensive. When a buddy offered a room in a former rubber band factory in Franklin, KY, an hour from Nashville, Baxter grabbed the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 22, 2019 | Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Thank the Wild West days of Craigslist for Dustbowl Revival. Zach Lupetin had graduated from the University of Michigan with a fiction and screenwriting degree and moved to Los Angeles to get into the theater business. But he’d also been playing...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 15, 2019 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Local bands in Hampton Roads had another prolific trip around the sun last year, and as you’ll see the list of nominees for the Veer Music Awards is rather lengthy. As always I called upon a diverse array of people to participate in our nominating...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 15, 2019 | Music, Music News
“Heroes Rising” by Light “Log on the Fire” by Buddha Council “Shelf Life Baby” by Moaning Lisas (Directed by David Orr) “I Got Soul” by It’s Tha Koncept “Heaven on the Rocks” by...