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This Past Week on AltDaily | Feb. 7, 2012

By AltDaily Staff

Here we help you connect more deeply with your community and/or waste time at work. All the stories from the past 7 days on AltDaily, for your enjoyment.

The Art of Tool | Tool @ Hampton Coliseum

By jESiO

A Tool show is so much more of a visual experience than a Sonic one. I thought they sounded better on their albums but couldn’t take my eyes off the stage.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend | February 1, 2012

By Jennifer Mackey

Happy Groundhog’s Day. Feel like your life is the same, boring day over and over again? Change it.

Will the Real DJs Please Spin Forward: Elitism in the World of Spinning

By Bryon Burgan

To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson, “I’m tired of all these mother(loving) DJs arguing over who is a mother(loving) real DJ or not.” Hmm. Maybe that’s not exactly how he put it, but I think we all get the point.

This Past Week in AltDaily | January 30, 2012

By Jesse Scaccia

Warm and fuzzies. Let the sky never be just blue again. Winter be damned forever. Gratitude and grace abound.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

Art, concerts, clubs, activism, love, fear, sex, destruction, and a cash bar. Get yourself in some really uncomfortable situations and live your damn life.

Kickstarting Your Career in Music & the Arts: A Guide to Using Kickstarter.com

By Mike Federali

Only ask for what you need. This isn’t a teenage negotiation with your parents for movie money. Don’t ask for $50 in secret hopes of only getting $20.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend | Balmy January Edition

By Jennifer Mackey

If you don’t get out and enjoy yourself this weekend then we can’t help you. We just… can’t.

The AltDaily Drive Raffle: A Sweet Harmonica Necklace!

By Jesse Scaccia

A local jewelery business gave us these two sweet pieces to raffle off. They’re rad and so is Luna Rosa.

Reader Testimonial: Why Norfolk Needs AltDaily

By Dave Johnson

AltDaily is a lighthouse in Norfolk’s sea of journalism, and a major seaport without a lighthouse is very dangerous proposition.

2011′s Most Undesirable: Best Albums from Last Year with Ryan Stoner

By Ryan Stoner

After listening to his band’s newest album (fresh after mastering), he took off his headphones, looked to the sky and said “This is the one, motherfucker. This is the one.”

City Council to Vote on Busking Ordinance Days Before Art|Everywhere

By jESiO

A look back on the year in busk. From the first Art|Everywhere, which kicked it into motion, to the second, which kicks it into law.

AltDaily Drive Raffle: 2 Tix to Each: Keller Williams, SOJA, and G Love & The Special Sauce @ The NorVa

By AltDaily Staff

That’s 3 great shows. 6 tickets total. For as little as $10. Plus, you’re helping AltDaily. Dig it.

I Didn’t Know That Was Possible: Behind the Scenes of Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Quidam’

By Jake Hull

Thinking about it now still shatters my brain. Things make so much less sense when you watch real live people spin like violent cyclones one minute and then suddenly they’re gliding through the air like a wind-plucked dandelion tuft.

Release: Clarence Clemons Tribute To Feature Members of E Street Band, Bon Jovi & Gary US Bonds

By Jesse Scaccia

The show will take place one night at The Attucks and then the next night at The NorVa. We’re into this.

One More Drink with The Fighting Jamesons

By Alison Burdick

Jeff McLaughlin spills about where the band name came from, their local musical role models, and what they’re doing to support the local Red Bull and smokeless tobacco economy.

Start The Nostalgia Machine: The Boathouse, A Burial at Sea.

By John Vitale

A black hole has been created in local history today as the tombstone of the Boathouse is in the process of being bulldozed, leaving no evidence that the 90′s antiestablishmentarianismesque zeitgeist slouched it’s way through town.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

Get out before everyone else is out shoving their Christmas spirit down your throat.

Behind the Scenes Blog: Hansel and Gretel @ Virginia Opera

By Louis Fisher

Our run-on sentence review: Appropriate and fun for the whole family with a magical set that conjures a world at turns wondrous and terrifying, Hansel and Gretel is an evening where a timeless fairy tale comes alive through the enchanting vehicle of narrative and emotion that is opera.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

Lola’s, Venue on 35th, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Hansel and Gretel do opera, Fighting Jamesons, Sharx!, Belmont, JewMa, Freedom Marathon, MONSTER JAM, Plan B Comedy, Ramp Jam, B-boying, CRUSH…

The Zombies are Gone so Get Out of the House! Nekocon 14, Dancing, Bar Pong, Cake, Art, and Bikes!

By Jennifer Mackey

If you’re into Japanese Punk Rock, cake, puppies, women, anime, the 1960s, art, guns, easy money, festivals, bikes, photography, pottery, women, movies, drinks, great food, dancing, or even fairy tales, then there’s a good chance the perfect activity awaits you this weekend.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend: Halloween Weekend Edition

By Jennifer Mackey

In my opinion it’s the perfect weekend. You can be whoever you want, whatever you want, and however you want to be. You make the rules.

Welcome to Experimenting with LSD without Drugs: Flaming Lips @ The NorVa

By David Paul Kleinman

Call ‘em blue-collar sorcerers or working-class soothsayers or nine-to-five witch doctors. Either way the Lips have staked out their own territory, straddling the fence between humanity and divinity, and their performance Thursday night at the NorVa is surely to be an experience unlike any other.

Flaming Lips VIP Tix Giveaway: Dress Up All Crazy & Walk Around Town

By AltDaily Staff

Please abide by the laws of the land, but ignoring ignorant moral laws “society” has put on us is encouraged.

In an MMMBOP They’re Grown: Hanson and I Come of Age

By Skye Zentz

Alas, here we are, a good 13 years after Hanson’s song, “Mmmbop,” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and guess who’s still not laughin’!? THIS GAL!

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

They say it’s going to rain this weekend, but I refuse to be locked inside. No t-storm or puddle is going to keep me from having fun. And it shouldn’t stop you either.

Life’s a Big Old Slot Machine: Discovery Music Series Presents Pokey LaFarge

By Jake Hull

The music is unarguably good. It balances expectation and surprise in clever ways with fun lyrics that tell stories of gambling, traveling (yes, flannel loving musicians have no fear – there are train songs), alcohol, love, and crime.

Rise of the Local Hip-Hop DJs: Deadstock

By Bryon Burgan

There is close to literally no night in the Hampton Roads area that you can’t find an electronic music night.

So You Think You Can Avett Ticket Giveaway

By Jesse Scaccia

Make a video of yourself performing an Avett Brothers song. Any instrument, or none at all. Winner gets 4 tickets, 2nd pace 2.

The Biggest DJ in the World Spins into Norfolk

By Renee Shuman

The floor vibrates. The skin tingles. A thousand people move as one to the beat. The perfect transitions from song to song leave you wondering what Tiësto did with the last 90 minutes of your life.

The Avett Brothers Return to Norfolk

By William Speidel

Despite these successes, at their core The Avett Brothers remain a humble pair of siblings from nearby North Carolina just happy to be making music.

Photoblog: Dropkick Murphys at nTelos

By Kimberly Tilford Centers

The crowd that braved the storm was energized by the downpouring rain. So were the bands.

Avett Bros.Tickets Giveaway: I’m Too Sexy for My Plaid

By Jake Hull

Dig out your plaid and give the camera your best and sex-bombiest Blue Steel look. Win tickets. Life is good.

Three Musical Acts Out of ODU Making a Name Right Now

By Jake Hull

And what they can teach you about how to make it in the music business.

This is It (The Inside [my] Norfolk Blog)

By Jesse Scaccia

A view from inside the culture and community of the greater Norfolk metro, with AltDaily editor-in-chief Jesse Scaccia.

Life, Love and Bright Eyes

By Eimile Denizer

He makes things cool that have no right being cool, like being lost and listless and soulful and artful and all of those things that do not lead to lucrative careers.

On Returning to Their Musical Roots in Norfolk: Arborea

By Jake Hull

Shanti and Buck Curran of Arborea remember local acts like the Waxing Poetics, Rare Daze and Gibb Droll, and venues like Ramblin’ Conrads, Friar Tucks, and hidden Downtown cafes.

We Want to Give You 4 VIP Tickets to Bright Eyes @ The NorVa

By AltDaily Staff

But first you have to tape yourself and/or others listening to “First Day of My Life.”

Grace Potter and The Nocturnals Rock Out Norfolk

By Allison Terres

Grace Potter and The Nocturnals prove that amazing showmanship and substance go hand in hand. The woman powerhouse that is Grace Potter lacks neither with eight years of touring experience under her mini-skirt.

Out of the Box CD of the Week: Maria Taylor’s ‘Overlook’

By Paul Shugrue

This is the fourth solo album from the artist who has also worked with Azure Ray, Now It’s Overhead and Bright Eyes. In writing about finding a new direction, she has found one.

The Birth: The Essence, Debate, And Music of a Young HipHop

By Rashidi Barrett

As a friend who grew up in the early 80′s in the Bronx says, “We did hiphop for need, not the greed–it made us stronger people back then.”

B-boy Culture in the 757: RadioActive Cardboard

By Shanika Smiley

“I want people to see our videos and say. ‘Yo, I know that dude who is dancing. He goes to my school in Chesapeake!’ or hear an out-of-towner say, ‘Yo seriously, the 757 region they got their scene rockin’!'”
-Johnny Breaker of RadioActive Cardboard

Video: Norfolk Noise Box on Granby St.

By Jesse Scaccia

He’ll be performing on Colley tonight before Back to the Future @ The Naro. Look for a full feature on him next week.

Get Em While They’re Hot – Band of Horses Tickets – Jewish Mother – Sunday Night

By Curt Wynn

And they’re only $15. (We just passed out with happiness.)

There is Now a Song About the Tide

By Jesse Scaccia

It’s kinda Beach Boys, kinda movie theater theme song. Like Radiohead albums, you’re going to have to listen to this song 20 times or so before you know for sure if you like it.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

It’s that point during the summer when you have two options: make this summer the best one of your life, or let it just quietly fade into fall. You decide what you want to do. (I vote for the first option.)

How We Grow the Hampton Roads Music Scene: Sticking Together

By Jennifer Sumner

Remembering Relative Theory, CiCi’s Pizza, and The No Talent Show, and hoping for a better musical tomorrow for the 757, from YourMusicShow.net.

Out of the Box CD of the Week

By Paul Shugrue

Paul Shugrue names George Thorogood & the Destroyers’ “2120 South Michigan Ave” the CD of the Week.

Reasons To Leave Your House This Weekend

By Jennifer Mackey

Forget staying in. This weekend is packed full of music, barbeques, and great local art shows.

Album Review: Circuital by My Morning Jacket

By Curt Wynn

Circuital’s ten tracks provide an incredibly diverse and complete effort from a band firing on all cylinders

Album Review: Wildfire by Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun

By jESiO

I can tell you two things. One: get it, you won’t regret it. Two: Once you do, prepare to abandon whatever else you were into for a few days.

Groove Solicitation and Some Good Shows Too

By jESiO

Looking to share your love of music? Let us know! Looking for some bands to see this week? Look no further.

This Week in Local Tunes: Get Groove Advised

By jESiO

Roots, rock, reggae hits us up hard this week. Plus major electronica and new summer show announcements.

BE IT ORDAINED: Busking Goes Legit and Norfolk Gets Cooler

By jESiO

Norfolk’s new busking ordinance in its entirety.

The Music (and Magic) of Michael Jackson

By Mira Boykin

James Delisco was a foster child who didn’t speak until his was five years old. Then he saw Michael perform.

Stand By Your Scene: This Week in Groove (April 18)

By jESiO

All the best local music blogs, all the best concerts, all the best the Norfolk/Virginia Beach music scene has to offer.

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Symphonicity: A Love Story

By Cassie Pinner

On taking my 90-year-old piano teacher to see the symphony.

Radio Free Europe (er, Norfolk) | Groove Advisory | This Week in Music, April 13

By jESiO

You see, back then (which was really not that long ago), people could phone in a request to a radio station and DJ’s would often play what you, the listener, wanted to hear.

Groove Advisory: April 5

By jESiO

Lots of free goodness this week, as well as a pretty killer music festival.

Groove Advisory: The Latest in Local Music (March 29)

By jESiO

Feminist punk, misogynist rap, the end of LCD Soundsystem, the beginning of The Mirrors. We’re kind of all over the place this week, and we kind of love it.

Groove Advisory: The Latest in Local Music

By jESiO

Rock, Country, Hip-hop. We got it covered this week. Plus, a sic act coming out of VA.

Groove Advisory: The Latest in Local Music

By jESiO

They’re like Norfolk’s Sid and Nancy, without the heroin and adding two extra (more talented) ladies.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Mar 1-7)

By jESiO

Festival time is upon us. What are your favorite festivals (local and non)?

10 Ways We Can Improve Our Local Music Scene

By Skye Zentz

if we support local music and art at all of its levels of development, we will feed and fuel the music scene as a whole.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Feb 15-20)

By jESiO

Grammy recap and local shoutouts and Bonaroooo!

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Feb 7-14)

By jESiO

So 757, any local bands you’re dying to meld together for one night only?

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (February 2-5)

By jESiO

The Unabombers, The Congress, The 757. Oh the possibilities.

Preview: Rock through the Ages @ School of Rock

By Jay Ford

If you haven’t experienced a cherubic 9 year old belt out the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” then put simply you have not lived.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (January 25-30)

By Sam Shinault

They don’t use jelly, folks, they jam! That goes for a lot of local and touring bands hitting the 757 up this week.

Preview: The East Nashville Review @ Hampton Taphouse

By Jim Morrison

Eric Brace, front man for Last Train Home, Peter Cooper, a couple of their boyhood heroes–Lloyd Green and Mike Auldridge–create “Master Sessions.”

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (January 11-17)

By jESiO

We’ve got small tours hitting us up from Chicago, Nashville, Richmond…We’ve got killer local shows. We’ve got fundraisers. We’ve got men who are blue.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (January 5-11)

By Jerome Spencer

Go on, get your post-holidays groove on. And, lucky for you, there are plenty of opportunities to do just that this week and start 2011 off right.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (December 20-26)

By Aaditya

Reminder, if you are interested in being included in our end of year music round up, send in your top 5 favorite shows, local or otherwise, including a sentence or two of why you chose each, to music@altdaily.com. If you remember them, please include the venue and date as well. Thanks!

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Dec 13-19)

By Aaditya

If you can come up with your top shows, local or otherwise, of 2010 and include a sentence or two about each and why it makes your list, email music@altdaily.com to be included in our end of the year music round up.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Dec 6-12)

By Aaditya

Together we will build and bring recognition to this amazing music scene we are fortunate enough to enjoy in Norfolk/Virginia Beach.

Who is K Scott?

By Jerome Spencer

Virgnia Beach’s K Scott reps VA to the fullest. Just listen to the amazing “Central VA” – her love song about coming up in Farmville – and just try to fight the urge to throw two up, two down.

The Sound of Home

By Hannah Serrano

How to make a local music scene in just one easy step. Plus, a Rise Up playlist to whet your appetite for this Saturday’s show.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (Nov 29-Dec 5)

By Aaditya

Musicians and fans alike, this is YOUR chance for to kick start something big. Together, we can make great things happen for the local music scene. It just takes that first step. Your move kids

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (November 22-28)

By Aaditya

Rockabilly raging raucous ruckus. Say that five times fast. Go!

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (November15-21)

By Aaditya

Have a chill evening exploring the corners of your mind instead… which could be hard since it’s round, but you’ll get there. Or find yourself back where you start. Either way, you’ll have gone on a journey.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (November 8-14)

By Aaditya

Jewish Mother Backstage down on Granby Street! Have I mentioned lately how psyched I am to be getting shows that I used to have to drive to the beach to see now happening within walking distance of me! WELL I AM! AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO! WHY AM I YELLING?!

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (November 1-November 7)

By Jim Roberts

Second on the six-band bill is 1888.

I caught part of a recent set at 37th & Zen, and I’m still stumped as to how to describe them. I suspect the band likes it that way.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (October 25-October 31)

By Aaditya

Crows (more than one kind), Humanoids, Tweedies, Trash, Ghosts, …what’s up with the band names this week?

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (October 18-October 24)

By Aaditya

Little shows. Big shows. Fundraising shows. Free shows.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (October 11-October 17)

By Aaditya

Quick rundown, there’s a lot happening this week, something every night actually, so let’s just jump right in.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (October 4-October 10)

By Aaditya

Jo Henley, Joe Pug, The Bridge, The Congress and much, much more.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (September 27- October 3)

By Aaditya

Loads of reggae, Music at the Museum, Jackass Flats, more good hip hop, and we all say farewell to Jewish Mother.

Shaolin versus Norfolk

By Jerome Spencer

Even on his busy schedule reppin’ the greatest rap crew of all time, Cappadonna will be performing at Norfolk’s own 37th and Zen this Friday, September 24th. That’s right, I didn’t say The NorVa, I said 37th and Zen.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (September 20-26)

By Aaditya

Virgins, Utters, Octopuses, Pietasters, and Zombies! Oh my!

Hampton Roads Celebrates UN Peace Day

By Mac McKinney

Our motto has become: “One day of peace accomplished, 364 to go.”

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (September 13-19)

By Aaditya

We’re making Norfolk a music town, one venue at a time. And that makes this music freak incredibly happy.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (September 6-12)

By Aaditya

We want the funk! We gotta have that funk! Plus Public Enemy is back, Tigercity, The Black Keys, The Whigs, and even more funk.

Humanoids From the Deep Invade 37th and Zen

By David Paul Kleinman

It’s all about mutant fish coming on land to kill the men and mate with the women to perpetuate their species, and who can’t relate to that?

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (August 30-September 5)

By jESiO

More good music happening this week than could possibly fit in this space.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (August 23-29)

By Aaditya

[There is an advantage to national acts touring here on weekdays]. It leaves the weekends for us to build support for local and regional live music acts.

Q&A With Counterfeit Molly’s Mike Gombas

By Mike Federali

“If you want to be a successful musician, you also have to play the game and be business savvy and have an entrepreneurial spirit. I suck at all that.”

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (August 16-22)

By Aaditya

More good music in the local scene than you could shake a trombone at.

Groove Advisory: This Week in Concerts (August 9-15)

By Aaditya

“One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley

Four of Jim’s Favorite Albums of 2010

By Jim Morrison

Kevin Welch, Peter Wolf, Blue Rodeo, and Graham Parker.

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