Robbie Fulks knows that certain songs populate his top 10 most-streamed on Spotify. “It’s all the so-called ‘funny’ songs at the top of that list,” says Fulks, citing his irreverent, […]
Cyril Neville performed alongside his siblings in The Meters and The Neville Brothers for decades. Now, the vocalist and percussionist is the only sib still touring and performing on a […]
It’s been just over a year since Molly Tuttle dissolved her Grammy Award-winning bluegrass quintet Golden Highway, but the band’s virtuosic fiddle player Bronwyn wasted no time getting back on […]
Timbre is an elusive sonic attribute. UVA professor Leah Reid has devoted her career to pinning it down. Reid, who’ll host a meet-the-composer event at the Staunton Music Festival, says […]
Joe Firstman is a musical journeyman who’s taken an uncommon career path. In the early 2000s, he inked a deal with Atlantic Records and played piano-driven pop music that emphasized […]
Of the 12 songs on Erin Lunsford’s second solo album Rhinestones, the Americana singer-songwriter and frontwoman for Erin & the Wildfire says she cried while writing four of them, especially […]
Adi Meyerson has studied with bassist Ron Carter and worked with pianist Monika Herzig, among others—and whether it’s been advice on touring or how to handle an instrument, the New […]
Jason Pollock sits down for an interview in clothes that wouldn’t have looked out of place when he was the lead guitarist for ’90s rock band Seven Mary Three–gray graphic […]
Over more than 15 years, The Head and the Heart has produced dozens of relatable, sentimental songs, establishing itself as a folk-pop band full of choral harmonies, catchy songwriting, and […]