Poetic edge: Punk quartet Wild Rose is beholden to beauty
Climbing into your mom’s minivan when you’d lied only slightly about your whereabouts for the evening, reeking of cigarettes and blaming it on your friends when it really was you […]
Listen up: C-ville’s hip-hop scene is on the rise
It’s a gray Sunday evening, 50-something degrees and drizzling when The Beetnix step onto the outdoor stage at IX Art Park. It’s been raining all day, but a crowd of […]
Leaning In: Restroy’s Chris Dammann mines hidden beauty for musical inspiration
When Chris Dammann was a kid growing up in Charlottesville, he spent a lot of time looking at his dad’s upright bass. “I wonder what that does, to be in […]
Local rapper Keese envisions unity through compassion
Keese is a quiet guy. While growing up in Charlottesville’s 10th and Page neighborhood, he didn’t say much. But he paid close attention to everyone around him—his friends and family, […]
Flutist-guitarist Maxx Katz explores doom with a view
Before Maxx Katz plays a single note of a FLOOM set, she looks out at the audience in front of her and thinks: “We’re all going to die.” That thought […]