Another post that amounts to me saying "If you live in Charlottesville, then you should..."
Check it:
07/13 -- The Great White Jenkins et al @ The Box -- possibly my fav band in the state of Virginia. Country, folk, free jazz, gospel, and some kind of slow rock swampy crawl blues dread thing. Put it another way: Andy Jenkins et al write hummable tunes for voice + guitar + everything else but also can talk to you at length about Albert Ayler and Ken Vandermark...and if you listen carefully, you might even come to think that those latter skronk-heroes are the real influences at work here.
07/14 -- Nelly Kate et al @ Tea Bazaar -- Nelly is a super nice person and a really fascinating musician. I played with her and our friend Evan in Purest Purists for a single gig that doubled as a big art show in the Masonic Building in Staunton. The most recent stuff of hers I have is an EP called "Autumn on My Heels" which is a collection of really short synthesizer + voice songs that boil the pop songform down into such melodic and compact forms that you'd think she's writing avant-garde lullabies and nursery rhymes. Which she is.
07/15 -- Adam Smith + Thomas Dean Play Records @ The Box -- You will dance. You will like it. You will love thy neighbor. Who will sweat on you. And move. And you'll reciprocate. And if you're lucky, you'll fall asleep at the end of the night at the bar. Yes, Liquid Liquid. Yes, David Bowie. Yes, yes, heaps of yes.
Short update btw: Aside from checking Nailgun and telling you which shows I'd be peeping if I were still in Cville, I do actually check out great things in this new city that's my home. I'm also incredibly busy now that work has started. Trying to figure out a good daily/weekly/monthly routine so that I can maintain this site, continue to create music in some capacity, and access all the culture that is surrounding me right now, without losing ground on what I originally came here to do. Thanks for yr patience, more soon.
