Local Music Profile

Local Music Profile: Groove Town Alliance

Patty.Jenkins — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Backstage with ...
Groove Town Alliance

From Virginia Beach
They play alternative funk-rock
See them 7 p.m. Saturday at Shaka's, 2014 Atlantic Ave., Virginia Beach. $5. 227-7153
Virginia Beach’s Groove Town Alliance knows playing gigs will get its tunes out locally, but what the four-member funk-rock band really wants is a music licensing deal.

Catch A New Day Rising at The NorVa

Patty.Jenkins — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

from Chesapeake
they play ... Alt-rock
see them 7 p.m. Friday at The NorVa, 317 Monticello Ave., Norfolk. $10. (800) 745-3000.
Website www.facebook.com/andrband
A New Day Rising, which took its name from a lyric in the Foo Fighter’s song “Times Like These,” will play its fourth show at The NorVa in Norfolk on Friday.

Local Music Profile: Galaxy Dynamite

Patty.Jenkins — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:58:30 -0500

Backstage with ... Galaxy Dynamite From Norfolk They play “I feel if you wanted to put our genre in the simplest of terms, it would be electric groove,” said drummer Mike Mahgerefteh.

Local Music Profile: The Kill Circuit

Patty.Jenkins — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

From Norfolk

They play Alternative rock

Website www.thekillcircuit.com

This alternative rock trio, which formed last year, has released a four-song EP of original music and recently filmed an episode of Cox Channel 11’s "Soundcheck."

Local Music Profile: Knuckle

Patty.Jenkins — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:41:23 -0400

Backstage with ... Knuckle From Virginia Beach Playing a mix of rock, blues, funk and reggae, the band will headline its second show at The NorVa on Friday. The lineup will also feature local bands Foreplay, Malt Liquor Sundae and The Remedy.

Local Music Profile: Uglyography

Patty.Jenkins — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:43:59 -0400

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Uglyography

Matt Thomas blames his horrible handwriting and his tendency to look up odd words on the Internet for the name Uglyography. "I came across the word and thought to myself, ‘For anyone that has ever tried to read my handwriting, this would make a good band name,’ " he said.

Local Music Profile: Rapper Kap Rizzy

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Rapper Kap Rizzy, whose birth name is Nathaniel Brown, grew up in the Tidewater Park area of Norfolk. "I didn't get a chance to do a childhood because I had a lot of responsibilities in front of me," he said.

Local Music Profile: The Difference

Patty.Jenkins — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:03:52 -0500

The three members of The Difference were playing with other worship bands when they met. When those groups fizzled, drummer and vocalist Thomas Guglielmo of Poquoson, guitarist and lead vocalist Ryan Mekkes of Norfolk and bassist Josh Jones of Chesapeake got together in January and started writing songs.

Local Music Profile: The Influence of Virginia Beach

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Base of operations Virginia Beach
Style of music Alternative rock
Bio On Tuesday, The Influence will release "Falling Objects" on its independent label, Flying Eye Records. It's a follow-up to 2007's "Pig Radio." Drummer Collin Cogan said the band decided to search outside of Hampton Roads for a producer and found Raleigh, N.C.-based Ted Comerford.

Q + A: Teenage classic rockers mOceans

Patty.Jenkins — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:49:22 -0400

Base of operations Virginia Beach Style of music Classic and modern rock Bio Last November when four teenagers came together to form mOceans (pronounced motions), they never thought they would get regular requests for Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”