cd A fresh tropical breeze weaves its way through Dave Grant‘s Bubbalon By Bass, from opening Appalachian standard "Red Rockin’ Chair" to the closing "dubmix" of the Monroe Brothers’ "Rosa Lee McFall." Take a listen to "Red Rockin’ Chair" from Dave Grant‘s Bubbalon By Bass: powered by ODEOCourtesy of Darlene Crawford – Thank you! A […]
At Straight Punch to the Crotch's last show, Billy Hunt battled the Devil in a keytar duel. After bringing the fiend to the ground
Bob Mould is something of a Renaissance man. He began his musical career with '80s…
music Saturday night at Satellite Ballroom kicked off with local quintet Kings of Belmont. Having seen their name on flyers around town for a while, I had begun to imagine that they were some sort of messy, alcohol-fueled garage rock band. I was only partially wrong. Alcohol certainly factors into the Kings’ equation (in one […]
cd To my knowledge, no mythology about horses with fangs exists. So it seems that, instead of basing their music on some ancient legend or folk story, the members of Charlottesville’s Horsefang have opted to forge their own epic. With song titles that refer to genesis, plagues and dead horses, the band’s debut EP evokes […]
Feedback's face lit up when we saw Brendan Canty's name on the list of this year's Virginia Film Festival guests.
Feedback experienced déjà vu when we first walked into Jack Jouett Middle School the other week.
"On one of the first nights that we were playing," Shannon Worrell recounts, "I think it was in Charleston, South Carolina, Jeff [Tweedy] came up to me and asked if I was afraid of him. That was one of the first things he said to me. I said, ‘No.’ "He said, ‘Well, sometimes people are […]
music Take Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band and pack them into one man’s body. Zip that body up in a blue spandex jumpsuit adorned with mirrored sequins. Slap on a glitter-covered, half-motorcycle, half-space helmet with a telephone receiver glued to the front. Feed the resulting Frankenstein some scotch and amphetamines. This is Bob Log […]