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

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

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.)

This week’s music news and to-do’s.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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?!

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

[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.

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

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

This week, I’ve decided to just pick one show to see, but the idea of just picking one, of eliminating the possibilities of being influenced, experienced, engaged, and left changed by the creative worldly outlook of an artist, any artist, seems incredibly limiting and difficult for me.

DMB, Phillip Roebuck, Willie Nelson, JJ Grey and Mofro, Tegan and Sara… In case we get lost, I’ll meet you in front of the soundboard.

This Week in Concerts, July 12-July 18: Jack Johnson, B.B. King, Smashing Pumpkins, and a ton of locally-grown grooveness.

A treat for the ears, every day through Sunday, including Buble, Jackass Flats, Toby Keith, and some good stuff at both the NorVa and JewMa.

Trey Anastasio, the group’s frontman, said it best when speaking of the haters: “It’s almost like they’re offended by the fact that so many people are enjoying something they don’t like.”

My world was turned upside down in a matter of seconds when my sister and Ben died. This community is what helped me turn it right side up.

Josh Ritter | So Runs the World Away

Nicolay and Phonte of Foreign Exchange will both be at Time Lounge in Norfolk for this Fuzzy Wednesday, the long-running showcase for local treasures the Fuzz Band.

Tonight: Music from the Crooked Road: Mountain Music of Virginia @ TCC Roper Performing Arts Center.

If you were to Google “Jedi Mind Tricks” right now you would get three results (not including videos) having to do with the rap trio of the same name before you got to anything about “The Force” from Star Wars.

“There is no longer a Music Business, just Music.”

You get 3 hours to pick up trash, then 2 hours to turn it into art. Go.

Pictures from the life Lupastic.

If you had the chance to hear KRS-ONE spittin’ science at a lecture about hip-hop and you still didn’t immediately jump at this rare chance, then I’m afraid that the hip-hop culture just might have to look down on you a little bit.

Growing up I was always a big fan of hip hop, so when I moved to Norfolk from Fredericksburg I didn’t know what to expect. Being a freshman at ODU with no knowledge of the surrounding area, my music outreach was looking bleak. That was until…

Grizzly Bear, Beach House, The Iguanas, Psychedelic Furs, Islands, HotChaCha, Kate Voegele and more

With video previews of the Reverend Horton Heat, Under the Gaydar Comedy Show and Bruce Hornsby

The Weiss Family features Aaron and Mike Weiss, members of indie band mewithoutYou. But you could tell by the show at Jewish Mother that The Weiss Family tour isn’t about acquiring fame or promoting any record.

Live blogging from tonight’s John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan show, directly from my iPhone.

Once again it’s time for a ruckus. Rock and Roll Ruckus 7 is going on this Thursday at the South Beach Grill which is on the corner of Norfolk Ave and Birdneck Rd. For those of you who have never been to the Ruckus, you don’t know what your missing. For those of you who have never heard of the Rock and Roll Ruckus, you really need to catch up and learn something.

Reminder: Kings 0f Leon is playing ODU’s Constant Center next Monday, April 27 with openers The Walkmen.

I’m a little blown away by these guys—definitely one of the most exciting American rock bands of the past decade.

What’s up dudes,   Friday night, the Norva is holding a local band showcase, but this isn’t just any old local showcase my friends.  This one features a band that has won Max Fm’s annual Battle of The Bands, twice.  It features a band that is being looked at by BMG, Sony, Interscope and a [...]

Oh yeah. So also appearing at Gene’s fiesta de adios? Tool.

The beach has a lot of local music history. Places like the Bayou and Rouges and the original Peppermint Beach club gave locals awesome places to play. Anyone who has lived here for any amount of time can tell you story after story about watching one of their favorite local bands play these places. Some can tell you stories about how these bands played for some national acts. Some can tell you stories about drunken hook ups after a show, all can tell you about the great times that had playing on the beach.
Well one of the greatest places on the beach for local music is bring it all back. Peabody’s

Things of Note: Zoe’s in Virginia Beach re-opens this evening. In our first issue of taste, Monroe Duncan reported in “Restaurants in the Revolving Door” about Zoe’s closure; however, chef-owner Jerry Weihbrecht has since teamed up with good friend and well-known sommelier Mark Sauter, and passionate gourmands Bill and Joni Greene, who all felt it [...]

Local label turns it up, brings the noise to the Boot.

It’s true; tomorrow’s going to be another dreary day. But stop crying about it, because The Boot’s got three compelling bands to revive the weekend.

Dave Allison runs Custom Made Music from right here. His hometown rock label will be presenting two bands, Ceremony and Screen Vinyl Image , as well as Florida friends Averkiou at the Boot on March 14th for an evening of brain buzzing shoegaze madness. He was kind enough to answer SevenQuestions for SevenCities.

As a blogger, I try to make the occasional funny.  If I’m lucky, I get one or two comments that let me know my comments were provocative enough that it caused someone’s thoughts to flow from their frontal lobes to their fingers and type something back to me.  Unfortunately, most people don’t comment.  I mean, [...]

Just when it seemed there’d never be a show at the NorVa you could pay me to go to ever again, they’ve added some dates that make me pee my pants a little. (I can’t say with certainty what the hell has been going on with the NorVa’s scheduling of late;  word on the in-the-know-street [...]

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