Wednesday show at your favorite neighborhood venue…

~4.28.2010~

The Pink Houses (IN) w/ Toby Foster (Chicago) & Spoonboy (D.C)
The Bazaar @ 8pm
All Ages; $5

This Friday: TLVS at The Good Cherry, and Bermuda Triangles at The Bazaar!

Aren’t you glad the weekend’s here?

~4.23.2010~

Blue Nights, a showcase of artwork by Shan Eberhardt, featuring The Late Virginia Summers & White Laces
The Good Cherry @ 8pm (sharp!)
All Ages; $3
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Bermuda Triangles (Richmond) w/Buck Gooter & Applachian Autonomous Zone
The Bazaar @ 9pm
All Ages; $5

What we got: Bazaar vs. Shadowbox tomorrow night! (Well, not really. But still awesome)

~4.22.2010~

I Need That Record! (Brought to you by Bazaar Consignments)
Shadowbox Cinema @ 8pm
All Ages; $5

Highly recommend you check this out and support your local vinyl store AND indie cinema house at the same time. From the film’s homepage:

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes “I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE,” a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade.

Greedy record labels, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, Ecommerce, shoddy “stars” pushed by big money, and the digital revolution all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores and the music industry at large. Will these stores die? Will they survive?

Featuring- THURSTON MOORE of Sonic Youth, IAN MACKAYE of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT of the Minutemen, LENNY KAYE guitarist of the Patti Smith Group, CHRIS FRANTZ of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer GLENN BRANCA, PATTERSON HOOD of Drive-By Truckers, PAT CARNEY of the Black Keys, punk author LEGS MCNEIL, rock photographer BOB GRUEN, BP HELIUM guitarist from Of Montreal, and many indie record stores across the U.S. of A!

Check out the trailer after the jump:

Weekend Post: Bazaar, Happy’s, and Harding St. Music Review!

Hope your weekend’s off to a good start. Perhaps we can make a few suggestions to liven it up a bit?
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~4.17.2010~

Amanda Bocchi & The Situationist
The Bazaar @ 9pm
All Ages; $3

~4.18.2010~

3 Am Friday, Turbo P, Grass Monkey, Friend fights Friend
Happys Flea Market @ 6pm
All Ages; $5
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Finally, we’re ready to premiere our 2nd music review on the Harding St. label! Check our Music Review page out to find it.

Happy weekend!

-L.H

Shadowbox + Fugazi = !!!

Somehow I forgot to include this on my post yesterday. I’m out of town at the moment, so bear with me, everyone!
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~4.15.2010~
Fugazi: Instrument
Shadowbox @ 8pm
All Ages; $5

Shows at the Bazaar and Downtown Public Library tomorrow!

~3.14.2010~

Emerging Artists Presents
Doug & Telisha Williams
Roanoke Main Library @ 6pm
All Ages; Free
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Here’s To The Long Haul (D.C) w/ Just Marshall
The Bazaar @ 8pm
All Ages; $5

Tomorrow at Shadowbox…

~3.13.2010~

A Bucket of Blood (Brought To You By Pop’s Ice Cream)
Shadowbox Cinema @ 8pm
All Ages; $5

Shows at the Bazaar and Good Cherry this weekend!

~4.10.2010~

Pinche Gringo (Greensboro, NC) w/ The Young Sinclairs (stripped down)
The Bazaar @ 9pm
All Ages; $5
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Keith Poulos w/ asentimentalsong ( 1/2 of The Late Virginia Summers)
The Good Cherry (Forest,VA) @ 8pm
All Ages; $3

Eternal Summers review on Cokemachineglow

Hello, readers.
Since last week was pretty slow, we decided not to post anything. This week, we’re going to make up for that absence…hope you didn’t miss us too much!

Indie webzine Cokemachineglow posted a pretty good review of the Eternal Summers EP, and we thought we’d share it with you.

“Hailing from Roanoke, Virginia, the band achieves the rare feat of making simple music that doesn’t make a spectacle of its own simplicity. For example, behold “Fall Straight Back,” a truly wonderful pop song made from the humblest materials, a macaroni necklace that glistens like a strand of diamonds. Backed by a couple of dutifully strummed power chords and a simple, steady beat, Nicole Yun leads the way to a chorus that pleads, heartbreakingly, ‘Please don’t leave me out of your plans.’ Yun’s vocals are a versatile instrument, pivoting from ethereal falsetto (“Loaded One”), to sassy staccato (“Heart Squeeze”), to, best of all, this wholehearted, head-thrown-back wail she showcases on ‘Fall Straight Back’ and ‘I Must Winter.’ And then there’s ‘Able To’ in all its glory: a chorus of unadorned imperatives (“Now is the time to distinguish yourself from previous ways that you have been living / Now is the time to relinquish yourself to future ways of precious forgiving”) followed by verses that ask, repeatedly, in intonations that vary ever-so-slightly, until you finally get the point, ‘Are you able to? / Are you? / Able? / To?’ This is a song that wants to cut the bullshit and ask you something very directly; it would use your first name if it could find a way to know it.”

Here’s the link to the article…enjoy!

-L.H