Music FEATURES

5 Things That Stockley Gardens Arts Festival Can Learn from Raleigh’s Artsplosure

By Sarah Schmader

Stockley Gardens Arts Festival does a lot of things right, but there is always room for improvement.

YourMusicShow: Pilot! LIVE from the Kitchen

By yourmusicshow

Pilot! brings you high-energy rock from Virginia Beach.

YourMusicShow: DJP and MRT LIVE from the Kitchen

By yourmusicshow

DJP and Mrt bring you incredibly catchy Norfolk apartment rock.

For Yates: A Mixtape & Love to an Extremely Brilliant Norfolk Cat

By Rashidi Barrett

His name is Ryan Yates, an artistic behemoth and Hip Hop cultural liaison/ contributary made from spare parts of grumpy old men, a pack of camels, a pair of 88′ Jordans and oozes talent by accident whilst maintaining a humble attitude about it all.

Reasons to Leave Your House: Cinco de Mayo edition

By Hannah Serrano

G40 Art Summit, Cinco de Micro, new Sketch Comedy, the Healing Life Festival, a Shrimp Feast, and Bruce Brubaker….

Reasons to Leave Your House This Weekend

By Hannah Serrano

Phillip Roebuck + Glass Pennies + seamonster + Get Out the Vote. Norfolk NATO Festival. Princess Wine Classic. SlutWalk Norfolk. Avett Brothers. The Polish Ambassador. VA International Tattoo. And more.

Concert Preview: Colin Hay at the Attucks this Sunday Night

By Jenn Sloggie-Pierce

While many people remember him as the frontman for Men at Work in the early MTV years, Colin Hay is also a prolific songwriter and passionate performer who has been touring for the last two and a half decades.

Concert review: Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas

By Jim Roberts

Krauss can do it all. Heck, she could sing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and score another Grammy Award.

THE 32ND AMERICAN: A Compilation by DJ Cornbread

By Rashidi Barrett

Art and music is like trying to eat Fruit Loops without the milk… you can do it but it’s just not as good as it could be.

Frat Boys Going Ape Shit (and Some Good Music too): The Black Keys @ The Ted

By Jerome Langston

What the Black Keys did well Friday night— make no mistake about it, is whip the Norfolk crowd of thousands into a frenzy.

Return of the Fuzz: Fuzzy Wednesdays & The Myra Smith Experience Move to Waterside

By Jerome Langston

Now celebrating 15 years of existence, the Commonwealth’s most successful urban music open-mic, has weathered a number of moves that it has continually recovered from.

In Search of a Norfolk-based Location to House Hope, Good Intentions & a Small Venue

By Amanda Lou Paramore

I only felt that I had a home in my city when I was lost inside of those loud and crowded rooms, and I wondered if there might be a place for me somewhere else.

Local Girl Reaches Lifelong Dream, Becomes Witch

By Skye Zentz

Yorktown’s Tiffany Haas plays Glinda in the production of “Wicked” soon to open at Chrysler Hall. Skye tells her story.

LGBT Spotlight on Mermaids in the Basement’s Sheela Fortner

By Dana Miller

Plus a sampling of all the great events supporting the LGBT community this March in Hampton Roads.

We Are Not a Football Team, We Are Minus The Bear

By Alison Burdick

These Seattle boys are definitely well on their way to becoming indie rock legends, joining the ranks of bands like Braid, Mock Orange, and Bright Eyes in transition from being the opening act to headlining multiple tours.