by Jeff Maisey | Jan 20, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 20, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Music, Music News
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
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,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison The arresting three-part harmonies flowing from the current lineup of The Wailin’ Jennys were born in a bathroom. Founding member Ruth Moody sought recommendations for the departing Annabelle Chvostek from a friend, Aoife O’Donovan...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “The first step―especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money ― the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the...
