“My Band” is about having a band and then losing it and then finding another band,” Itchy Hearts lead singer Andy Cobb says. “You get a group of people together […]
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Richmond’s Noah-O has something serious to say with “Oh My,” the lead single from his new mix tape, “Thug Wilder 4 President.” As he raps early in the song, his […]
Believe all the praise being showered on the Snowy Owls. The band writes seriously catchy hooks that swim in a pool of fuzz and feedback, then surface unscathed in the […]
Named after the carcinogenic insecticide, Kepone — Michael Bishop, Tim Harriss and Ed Trask — set the standard for Richmond rocking around the turn of the ’90s, shining brightly but […]
Guitarist and composer Scott Burton’s long-running all-star band includes some of the area’s best-known players: saxophonist John Lilley, bassist Cameron Ralston, drummer Scott Clark and No BS Brass founder and […]
Organized by ambitious trumpeter and composer Lucas Fritz, Compass Rose is the little big-band project for the latest generation of VCU graduates. The material on its debut CD covers a […]
Guitarist Chris Ryan has established himself as a versatile player in roles ranging from the cheerful jazz fusion of the Larry Branch Agenda to the driving funk attack of Beast […]
“You always hear the term ‘honky-tonk angel,’” Andy Vaughan says about the genesis of this Western swing workout, a standout cut on “Long Gone,” his band’s debut disc. “Country artists […]
Local composer Jamie K. Sims wrote the lovely, uplifting melody for this solo piano piece in the mid-’90s for a documentary short, “Marii Hasegawa: Gentle Woman of a Dangerous Kind.” […]
You know the opening scene in old black-and-white horror films — the grainy darkness, the creeping fog, the eerie music that crashes into crescendo. That’s also how Lost Tribe launches […]
“I would say that it was the result of feeling guilty about saying something insensitive,” singer and songwriter Dean Fields says of “Tongue Like a Hammer,” the first track off […]
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