Tree huggers, funk fanatics, and hip-hop heads rejoice, for your time has come.
Beginning this evening, 25 acts from D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Virginia will descend upon 13 acres of privately owned land in Lingum, Va., for the eighth annual Mustock Outdoor Music Festival. This year, the public will able to attend the festivities, whereas in years' past, [...]
I’ve come to be untroubled in my seeking
And I’ve come to say that nothing is for naught
I’ve come to reach out blind, to reach forward and behind
For the more I seek, the more I’m sought
These lyrics, from Joe Pug’s “Hymn 101,” might as well be the tagline for Pug’s current year-long tour, which has taken [...]
The National, in Richmond, is a decorous little theater with a semiformal air. But on Tuesday night, when Steve Earle played a set of mostly Townes Van Zandt covers from his new tribute album, peppered with anecdotes from his 25-year friendship with its eponymous hero, the venue assumed the close familiarity of a living room. [...]
Via TPM: "A Virginia Democrat sends over a new radio spot that Obama is airing in the southern part of the state — it stars homegrown bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley vouching for Obama's values and character to the tune of some banjo pickin' in the background."
