Known for his editorial cartoons, featured weekly in The Virginian-Pilot, Walt Taylor is an elusive Hampton Roads local whose illustrations capture the essence of the area’s cultural beauty.

Norfolk’s answer to The Mamas & the Papas plays With Lavender and Lace. Enjoy.

“My life’s purpose is to do what I can to be passionate in not just my own artistic process but also in what I do for others. As for seeking music hard, pushing hard to do it, I don’t know that it’s for me.”

“Have balls bigger than any dude out there!” – Hairdresser on Fire (half of Rad Homiez).

So here, I wrote a song about sanitation workers in Memphis. Me and my wife are sitting watching PBS and we’re watching this show about these cats working for 70 cents/hr….

Aromas is somewhere to go where, for a few minutes at least, artists can express themselves and maybe feel like their future is a little closer.

Local music act Carousel plays a private concert on her patio and answers questions about music, Norfolk, and carousels.

Brand new Hip-hip video with introduction by its art director, Robert Simmons.

They love playing Virginia Beach. They’re friends with Jackmove. They enjoy playing in correctional facilities. Meet Murphy’s Kids.

Good country rock from good ol’ country boys.

“Over The Ocean has set themselves on a path to attain a refreshingly pure invisibility.” – Mae’s Zach Gehring.

“We try to make our shows as similar to a party atmosphere as possible, but without the running from the cops and throwing up (unless you throw up from the mind blowing, stomach altering vibes coming from on stage).”

Curt Wynn sits down with Drive-By-Truckers’ Patterson Hood to chat about touring, Virginia, and Letterman.

A chat with PJ Morton about being a PK, playing with Maroon 5, and his mix tape.

Whiskey, banjo pickin’, and dancing–fun times with the Two Dollar Bill Band.

That sort of raw, sentimental kick to the groin is Titus Andronicus’ stock in trade. They know that life’s beatings are going to come; they have made their peace with it and they are not going down without a fight.

That’s the biggest part of the story. Get together with your friends and do something.

His is a story of the American Dream; of being haunted by depression, disease and death; and being inspired and spiritually fulfilled despite it all.

Once known as The Wave’s DJ Android, Andra Rosenberg has evolved into a multi-faceted artist, while facing responsibilities she never imagined.

“I think I was maybe 11 when I said I wanted to be a singer like Diana Ross and The Supremes. I wanted to BE Diana Ross.”

“Well performing… when it’s fun it’s the most fun, and when it feels weird it feels so weird. It’s like drugs.” Friday at The Attucks.

The wheel is for the birds. Norfolk has a pulse.

Factors like furniture: There’s an analyz that states the look and find out applying with the office space are usually transporting a direct impact out the quantity of employees is your office creates. The is just about the key factors that many companies are using the movement to adjust the furniture throughout their office and [...]

Vanesa Vennard talks age, girls, and Justin Bieber with Less Than Jake lead singer Chris Demakes.

Music can be so many things, sometimes all at once: your escape, your salvation, your happiness, your friend, and in this case, even family.

“In the history of music, there are trillions of love songs and there are so many political songs. I try to find subject matter that’s not been written about or maybe hasn’t been written about that much.”–Keller Williams, playing The NorVa tonight.

“I’m having freak-out thoughts about leaving my comfort zone here, but this time I’m pretty sure my life is just beginning.”

Norfolk’s ukulele girl talks to YouTube’s Ukulele girl.

“Good music really comes from life experience. Get your heart broke and I’ll listen to whatever you want to sing me.”

Alert: New band keeps baby boomers out past their bedtime. Playing tomorrow in P-Town.

I imagine if the songwriting and rehearsal process (and the recording for that matter) are as fluid and lighthearted as the way they do an interview and behave onstage, we’re in for nothing but great things in the coming months, starting with their show this Saturday as part of The Rise Up!

The guitar players all have an array of effects pedals at their feet, pedals with names inscribed on them like Dr. Scientist, Reverberator, Wolly Mammoth, and Tim. So far the band has turned away every singer that has come their way.

“That’s one of my favorite aspects of making music, and sharing music, is meeting other people who inspire and challenge and encourage you to keep at it.”

With the knowledge of where she’s from and how she was raised, I was able to place Fantasia’s recent suicide attempt, as well as her previous issues with a potential home foreclosure and functional illiteracy, within a clearer context.

There is a weird continuum from punk to folky old timey music. All the gutter punk kids who used to have Econochrist and Nausea t-shirts are playing in bluegrass jug bands now. Not that this has anything to do with me.

“I like for my music to hit you emotionally, I want a tear to fall when you listen.”

“Sitting in a car all day, loading in, rocking out, loading out, sleeping next to a dude, getting woken up by dude after accidentally snuggling, waiting in line for the shower, rinse and repeat. [I wish people knew] how hard we work.”

“I’m glad to see the bluegrass community opening up their view and embracing the evolution that’s happening within the music,” says Lynch, performing Friday at the American Theater in Hampton.

“You make music and you put it out there and it becomes not yours anymore. You give it out. You give it to people to do what they want with it, you know, and it’s always just an amazing thing to me that my music resonates with people.”

Their new music capitalizes on the best of what they already had. That is to say, it is more rocking than ever, richer, more layered. The guitar sections are shredders. It all seems more honed.

“A musician needs to be realistic about the difference between making it big or making a living.”

Jerome Langston talks to Brian McKnight about his new album, inside info on Lebron, and why his label is a synonym for the word ‘cat.’

“I’m not sure if I’m a John Mayer type. He’s a good musician, but he also knows how to work the media. He’s about being a rock star, that’s his thing. That’s not my thing.”

The Candy Snatchers were one of those bands that never made it big, but somehow made a big impression on the scene at large.

“It’s one thing to work with artists that you pretend to like because they’re your clients; it’s another thing to work with artists you do like. And then to work with artists you like who have already made it, and they’re giving you that chance to work with them–it’s a great feeling.”

The band plays tonight at The NorVA.

Alasdair Gillies returns to Norfolk for the Virginia International Tattoo.

Teng’s performance at the Attucks Theatre April 17 represents one of her final performances before she heads off on a new career exploring sustainable business.

“We were living the rock-star, devil may care lifestyle. But as it turns out, my lungs had been compromised by years of breathing second-hand smoke,” says Joe Maniscalco, for whom there is a benefit concert Sunday.

“There is not a band around here like us. Tag. We’re it. We’re Tidewater,” said Billy England, the band’s wiry, excitable bass player.

Beach House doesn’t seem to know how good they are. The Baltimore band, which opened for Grizzly Bear last night at the Norva, is Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. They are, as they say, on the verge.

(continued from Part 1) OK, back to the topic of hip hop. What do you think about what’s on the radio now? Battle: I think the music industry has been slacking for such a long time, you know. All the people who have paved the way for artists today, their music has been kind of [...]

Jarrell Williams sits down with two members of the 757-based hip hop collective Rebel E; Gabe Niles and Justin Battle. Conversation on fashion, inspiration, radio rap, and whether or not “hip hop is dead” ensues.

Get to know the indie/dance/electro outfit from Atlanta, Georgia. Seven questions and one bad-ass video after the jump.

Ten songs. Don’t overthink it. No taking out a notebook and honing it. Just the first ten you think of and what they mean to you.

An illuminating Q&A with Def Leppard’s one-armed drummer Rick Allen and wife Lauren Monroe reveals that it’s not all rock anthems and–ahem–pouring some sugar on you. It’s about pure human spirit.

But Moutheater is more than just primal intensity and volume or I wouldn’t be pecking away at this keyboard for their sake. Moutheater is also a diligent and determined band with a work ethic to match their sound – fast and forceful. The local trio of Andrew Aircraft (guitars, vocals), Tim Gault (drums) and Aaron Fishaw (bass, backing vocals) haven’t been together quite two years yet and they’ve already debuted the Lot Lizard 7-inch with the legendary Steve Albini at the helm, inked a deal with Nashville-based Thrashed Records, released an insanely popular split 7-inch with German band Vegas and have amassed lots and lots of touring under they’re undoubtedly studded belts. Their full length, Ornament, is slated for a May 2009 release and an American tour is sure to follow.