This truly was old school Dead, as this tune stretched to at least 30 minutes, but then again who knows, time fades into nothing when you’re dancing like this

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

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.

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!

The Wet Boys, who are performing at the New Radicles show at New Belmont Friday, share their best surf spots and late night dining spots in VB. They also dream about the sacred Navajodown.

What YourMusicShow does is fill a cavernous void in the local music scene.

The night was a promising start to what will be an epic season of romantic, explosive, and delicate music.

Hearing Wilco live will bury you in sound: experimental distortion and noise intertwine effortlessly with more folksy elements, and the musicians float back and forth between the two schools without any of the stressful intensity that other rock bands seem to bring to heavy sound.

This Saturday is the debut of “Hardcore Norfolk The Movie,” which looks at the history of Norfolk’s music scene. Here we interview its creators.

Good country rock from good ol’ country boys.

After following them around for two years from Virginia to Ohio (and all the States between) for upwards of 26 shows, it’s going to be hard to go cold turkey. This is what it is to be staring at the face of performance withdrawals.

The 757′s favorite jammers return to Ntelos Pavilion for a special Father’s Day concert.

[It felt] like you were at a family gathering listening to great granddad tell stories from his youth

Shanika goes to her first mainstream concert to determine if her mother’s “Christian music only” rule growing up was valid.

Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys played two full sets with no opening act, and afterwards us three Appalachian transplants sat down to talk about the show, bluegrass traditions, their new band, and our favorite versions of “Long Black Veil.

A photo spread of the Sea Level Music Festival.

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.

“‘F you, we’re going to do the best we can by this music.’ We believe in what we’re doing.” – Flogging Molly

Once one maneuvers past their genre biases and learns to appreciate compositions for what they are–stories woven in melody, harmony, and rhythm–the listener can then start to understand people on a new level.

Saturday December 4, we began to grow. We had the best bands, DJ’s, rappers, vocalists, and a one-man-freakin-band.

After nearly a decade of success, touring with the likes of The Foo Fighters, Weezer, Ben Folds, and The Fray, the band is taking an indefinite hiatus to pursue alternate paths.

Attucks. December 4. Six of the best–and our favorite–acts in Hampton Roads. Can you dig it?

Let’s do it for local hip hop, regional pride and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

It was kind of like a Pandora station gone live. Three bands (Counting Crows, Augustana, and NOTAR) letting lose together on stage, singing their hits, covering their favorites, and mashing together familiar songs in new ways.

“It’s like selling your record player,” I heard the kid behind me tell his friend, “for a day’s work.”

A gallery of photographs from this weekend’s Jazz Fest at Town Point Park.

The Norfolk Sound Reunion at the Attucks was one of those incredibly intimate nights on which it felt like everybody knew everybody, and all the old friends from Church Street were together once again, five decades later.

It felt like watching a man have sex with a prostitute, a man of such arrogance and delusion that he’s convinced himself that the lady is actually having an orgasm.

PBS filming a Norfolk classic performing in his historic old stomping grounds? We tell you the top reasons for checking this out.

I was really feeling the love in that place… sometimes a little too much. (Husky Bearded Guy and Red Dress Girl: Get a room).

Phish’s music is space cadety, and a lot of the people at the concert were stoned like geologists, but the whole experience pushes you to see the world more beautifully.

Good times @ Phish @ nTelos.

I mentioned in my interview with Angels & Airwaves’ David Kennedy that at the show I would be as close to the front as possible, jumping up and down like my feet were on fire. And that’s essentially what happened.

A look back as Norfolk’s number-one music venue turns 10.

This is, without any hyperbole and/or journalistic exaggeration, a truly impressive roster not to be missed. (Pictured here, one of the performing bands, indie darlings Ra Ra Riot.)

For me, their music is inextricably mixed up with my favorite kind of Southern summer evenings—chatting and watching the world roll by from a friend’s porch, then wandering downtown for a bit of dancing and revelry.

Famed sitar player Anoushka Shankar, who performs tomorrow evening at the Roper, speaks with sitar player and musician Jake Hull of local band Momentary Prophets.

Those of you who caught Ben Taylor and Julie Clark at The Naro last night are no doubt aware of The Sea Level Singer/Songwriter Festival popping off in Ghent as we speak.

With inspiring, progressive lyrics, Ani’s distinctive voice rang through the crowd with a sense of purity and honesty. The warm, progressive energy in the room was palpable.

She dyed her hair dark – maybe to match her music. The formerly tow-headed British singer-songwriter Laura Marling is what I would have aspired to be at 20 years old. Basically, I think she’s brilliant.

When grown men are waving their beers in the air and singing “and I am a Material Girrrrlll…Materiah-ahl!,” it’s impossible not to see the power nostalgia, pop, and dancing has on people.

Solomon Douglas (formerly of the Glenn Miller Orchestra) brings his Swingtet to the Boot this Sunday night. Can you swing it?

If you would have told the teenage version of me that one day I would be sway dancing to “One of These Nights” at an arena in Norfolk, Virginia, and that I was happy as a clam doing so, the teenage version of me would have stared blankly at you for a minute, nodded his head, then walked into the ocean until he disappeared.

The band has taken the stage. I’m in a crowd with hundreds of strangers all watching the frontman sing his soul into a microphone. I feel like I’m watching the girl I love get married. I just keep asking how come that guy isn’t me?

Margaret Cho, The Muckrakes, Arms and Sleepers, Chevelle, The Decemberists, and more.

The One Not to Miss: CLIPSE, Tuesday at the Norva

Crue Fest, Tarrus Riley, Michael Franti, Transmitters, Emery, Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun, The Weiss Family of Mewithoutyou, and Fuzion Ink’s Benefit Show

DMB reminds me of what it was like to think I might just get to be President or play shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals one day.

Photos from Neko Case at the Norva by Doug Nicholson and live review by Hannah Serrano

Neko Case, Mercy Creek, Bob Dylan, Kid Rock, Nightmare of You, G. Love, Gogol Bordello, Crystal Method, and more…

Pack it with parties and shows.

The lovely and talented Skye Zentz performs a beautifully original and sweet rendition of MJ’s Heal the World.

The band is technically amazing, each member doing his part and working perfectly with one another to create efficient melodies, powerful chords and some great songs. That technical prowess and potential is what made it even worse for me when that singer opened his mouth and sounded like Adam Sandler doing “Lunch Lady Land.”