It must be summertime or something cause I can’t believe there’s been 2 hardcore shows in 2 days. Very strange. Sorry for the short notice on both of them but we just found out literally minutes ago.
9 Bands for $10 is crazy. If you are a HC fan on the Peninsula you should check it out. Show starts at 6 so get there soon!
Just a heads up for all the cool cats who get down with some good lo-fi, reach-down-into-your-soul-and-pull-the-insides-out, acoustic indie. St. Louis’ own Theodore is in town tomorrow, 30 June 2009, with support from Andrew Bryant and Michael Young. Based on their last trip through town during ’08, their sound is pretty solid and is well worth the emotional commitment (and the $5 in the least.) The show starts at 9 PM for a mere 5 spot. Tell a friend, these guys will be big in that Cursive sorta way one day.
Hampton
Bill Morris @ McFaddens 6-9 PM
The Prisoners @ Marker 20
Virginia Beach
Chasing Arrows with City Voices @ The Half Shell 9 PM $10 18-20, $5 21+
Jamie McLean Band @ Jewish Mother 9 PM $8 in advance via inticketing.com or at the restaurant.
Natures Child @ Timbuktu 7 PM
Brad Street @ Clutch Bar and Grill 8 PM
The Muckrakes with The Bible Beaters @ The South End Pub 8 PM $6
The Wholigans @ The Seaside Palladium (as a part of Sandstock) @9 PM Free
Flies With Honey @ Smackwater Jack’s 9 PM
Loose Lips (DJ RonnieM. lordamercy. d.beard + ordinaryboy) @ BarNone $3 21+
Everybody Loves Tequila @ 15th St. Raw Bar 9 PM Free
Grant Austin Taylor Band @ Hell’s Kitchen on the Bay 9:30 PM
Element @ Hot Tuna 10 PM
Jack Beck @ Keagan’s Irish Pub @ 10PM
Cock Diesel @ Reagle Beagle 10 PM
Norfolk
The Black Hollies with DJ Lord Thomas @ The Boot 10 PM $7
Terry Garland @ The Taphouse 9 PM
Mid-Life Crisis @ Cap’n Rons Bar and Grill 9:30 PM
Versus The Universe @ Hell’s Kitchen 10 PM
Newport News
Brian Sewell @ Firkin & Frigate
Hey Hey Hooligan @ Manhattans
Inside Out Band @ Keagan’s Irish Pub 10 PM
Yorktown
Pawn Shop Lifters @ Bayhaven Grille
Elizabeth City
Further Adieu with Nick Simmons @ City Wine Sellar 7 PM Free
We’ll be getting the videos from last night’s open mics up on the site later tonight, for now I just wanted to tell y’all about this:
L00se Lips next Friday 6/26/09 at Bar None in Va Beach with OH!BOY, D. Beard, LRDMRCY and DJ Ronnie. Click the image to be taken to the L00se Lips site. There’s a tab at the top that takes you to the DJ Page, where you can also download a short set by OH!BOY to get a feel for what to expect.
We’ve also just heard word that there is also a new electronic night at Budda’s Place (!) every Thursday. We don’t have the details yet but from what I hear it’s electro, house and drum and bass.
Lastly, we’ve added blogrolls to the sidebar for Hampton Roads and Richmond. Two sites we’re adding today:
Fantastic Planet – This RVA DJ crew is adding a HRV chapter with a quarterly event. The last one was April 25 at the Jewish Mother, so we should be due for another sometime in July. Check out the Official FP Mix here and wish for more.
No\Ones\Watching – Personal Blog of HRV’s own designer Josh Newton. Interesting read and good source of info for some local shows and events.
That’s it, we’ll have some juicy new videos of two new local bands later today Cya!
Yes, that’s Ryan Gosling playing piano and singing while leading a chorus of elementary school kids dressed in Halloween costumes. /brain explodes.
Anyways, so this Saturday, Chicos in Chesapeake, art by Restless Bodies, music by Berk Visual. I’m gonna try to get across the Southside myself to meet these guys in person. Should be cool.
I almost declined to post this for reasons I’ll explain shortly, but here goes anyways. Via The Alfredo Torres Debacle comes word of VBNightlife.com, a Ning based social network based around, can you guess? Virginia Beach nightlife, music, bands and DJs.
First off it’s a great idea, it has about 500 members and seems to be a good source of info on what’s going on round the HRV. Why VBNightlife though? NorfolkNightlife, 757Nightlife, HamptonRoads/HRVNightlife would have been better picks. Why tie yourself to one city out of 7 when you’re just going to be covering shit that goes on in Norfolk anyways.
And my second gripe goes out to Nicole Maxino for shamelessly ripping the music calendar off of Meona.net and reposting it without attribution. I know Meona’s Stephen Sloop personally. He has been running Meona for a decade and it’s saddening to see someone taking credit for his work again. For chrissake at least give him a link at the top of the page!
In spite of that I’m still posting to this site as it is a good resource of what’s going on over in Va Beach. They’ve got a comprehensive list of the bars and bands in the area, so it’s worth checking out.
This is a benefit to raise money for the college funds of Walt Redmond, Jr’s. children.
Walt passed away last month and his music and smiling face will be missed by many.
The show will be held at Saddle Ridge on Power Plant Parkway in Hampton, VA. Saddle Ridge is divided into two places, Saddle Ridge and the Cheyenne Supper Club. Both venues will have stages in use that day. The loud rock bands will be in the big room at Saddle Ridge and the acoustic acts will be in Cheyenne Supper Club.
Admission is $10. There will be T-shirts for sale, auction items and a CD of Walt’s music available too.
Please come out and support a great cause, have some fun and hear some great music too. We play around 8:30.
May 10TH Walt Redmond Jr Tribute
Saddle Ridge Schedule
30 min sets:
4PM Soul Patch
445 Crazy X
530 Vinyl Headlights
615 Butter
7pm Excess Baggage
745 Snackbar Jones
820 Walt Redmond Sr. and Becky Morrison
830 Fine Swiss Cheese
915 Krunch
1000 Hey Hey Hooligan
1045 Borderline Crazy
1130 East Coast Rockers
1215 Super Glue
Cheyenne Club Schedule
25 Min Sets
4PM – 630PM Open Mic
630 Brad Street
705 John Harrell
740 Insley-Baggett
830 Suzy-Ray-Vaughn
905 Plastic Eddie
940 Don Butcher
1015 Tim Morgan
1050 Brian Sewell (Big Daddy)
Just wanted to pass on this update from @katmarsh25 and @HRMusic: the Monochromatic 7 Cities Myspace page has been updated with tons of calendar dates. Plenty going on if you live over on the Southside.
Monochromatic is dedicated to the reconstruction of the local art and music scene by connecting artists, fans and the general public.
Kudos to Gabriel and K@t, you guys should be getting paid for what you’re doing!
We arrived at The Boot for our 9PM reservation seriously overdressed and settled into our table. The place a great cozy feel to it and nice style. I went straight for the duck and balsamic reduction, sides of small new potatoes and green beans. The flavor was great, I totally cleaned all traces of the sauce off my plate. Because the duck was made to order and takes so long to cook, I think they rushed it a bit and served it to me undercooked. The breast was good, it was the leg that was rare and impossible to cut off the bone. I told my waitress and the owner before the night was out, not to cause a scene, just to let them know. My fiancee’s meal was fantastic though, a clam and spicy sausage with pasta and a tomato based sauce. It was a bit too spicy for her; I wound up sopping up every trace of the sauce with bread it was so good.
By the time we were done with the food the place started to fill up and Norfolk based Yokefellow hit the stage. It’s just one guy, he was joined onstage by a young lady on violin for a few songs. It was a very calm introduction for the following acts. After the show Yokefellow gave me a copy of the anchors ep, his 4 song demo. Here is one of the tracks off of it:
Yokefellow – Sleeves Up
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After Yokefellow finished his set the stage was swarmed with a crowd of people and equipment that was Holler Wild Rose. The New Jersey band launched their wall of sound off to an energetic start. Three guys with guitars, one drummer, one bassist and a girl on a keyboard. Wow. Frontman John Mosloskie’s voice has been described as resembling Thom Yorke, Jeff Buckley and Sigur Ros’s Jón Birgisson, but trying to describe the bands waves of sound by comparing it to another band or genre ultimately fails. They have a unique sound and put on a great show. Check out their YouTube videos for one, and read this profile of the band. Here’s them performing Captive Train last night, midway through the set.
Newport News’s Westbound was the reason I had wanted to come to the Boot in the first place. When I first heard “I Swear We Were Infinite” I knew I had to go see them. Their instrumental heavily textured guitar sound reminded me of post-rock acts like Tortoise and Mogwai, and I had to check them out. I was not dissapointed. They kicked right off with their lush sound and I was not dissapointed. Here’s a clip from one of the songs they played.
We had to leave before they were done with thier set, but they will be back at the Boot in a few weeks. I cannot wait to hear more from them and will try my best to help get these local boys the chance to play over on this side of the water.
