State launches wine distribution company
Yesterday, Virginia launched a state-subsidized wine distribution company to help small vineyards in the state, reports The Washington Post.
CVS near deal for Plan 9, Satellite space [April 17; updated April 21]
Last month, Terry Vassalos, owner of the Anderson Brothers Building on the Corner that currently houses Plan 9 Music and Satellite Ballroom, would neither confirm nor deny rumors that a CVS pharmacy might replace the two music establishments when the space’s lease expires at the end of May.
Working hard for the Big Easy
In 2005, when Katrina hit and water poured into New Orleans’ Sea-Saint Studio, a collection of Preservation Hall Jazz Band…
Volume One [with audio]
“What can you do with a sentimental heart?” asks actress Zooey Deschanel on the opening track of Volume One, her debut album with songwriter M. Ward. Answer: You can swoon to these tunes for days and days. Listen to "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" from She & Him‘s Volume One: powered by ODEOCourtesy […]
21st century troubadour [with audio]
When Colin Meloy, front man of literary-minded rock band, The Decemberists, arrives at Satellite Ballroom on Saturday, April 12, his bandmates won’t be with him…
6 Day Bender [with audio]
Not even a year out of UVA and the 6 Day Bender boys have tapped deep into our region’s rural music pulse.
Taste tested [with video]
When mutual affection for ska bands like The Specials and Madness brought The Pietasters together at Virginia Tech in 1990, the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind was still a year away
Are they not MEN? [with audio]
Johanna Fateman is a modern day Renaissance woman. She’s a writer, member of electro-feminist punk band Le Tigre, has an MFA in painting and runs a hair salon in New York’s West Village.
"What would Django do?" [with video]
Before moving from East Los Angeles to a rural Utah town at the age 14, Rick Olivarez
In the key of change [with audio]
Maybe money talks, after all. When entertainment behemoth Live Nation, a spin-off of Clear Channel Communications, bought 51 percent of Coran Capshaw’s Crozet-based e-commerce company Musictoday in September 2006, he explained to billboard.biz that he “wasn’t looking to sell a major stake.