Judi Jackson

From her Spo­ti­fy pro­file: Judi Jack­son is a mul­ti-tal­en­t­ed vocal­ist from Roanoke, Vir­ginia. Judi has per­formed on a vari­ety of stages with a myr­i­ad of world-class tal­ents. Intro­duced to the world of music through the Jef­fer­son Cen­ter’s Music Lab, Judi…

The Roanoke Scene

The fol­low­ing is a 2002 arti­cle from the now-offline (at the time of this writ­ing) Star City Punk web­site. Of all the things, good and band, you hear said about Roanoke, the com­ment, “There’s noth­ing to do!” prob­a­bly sur­faces most…

Avid

From their Face­book page: AVID is the prod­uct of Evan Der­mot­t’s vocals and piano skills, Will Good­ing’s gui­tar and Cameron Todd on the drums. The Open Road (2010) Down­load

Fallout Interview

The fol­low­ing is from the now-offline (at the time of this writ­ing) Star City Punk web­site. It’s unclear what year the inter­view is from, though Fall­out’s last release was in 1992. The three mem­ber band called Fall­out may be based…

A Brilliant Ending

Mem­bers Jor­dan Doyle: Vocals/Programming (A Bril­liant End­ing → Life in a Fox­hole → Gaffer Project)Nathan Kinzie: Gui­tarTyler Osborne: Bass (A Bril­liant End­ing →  Life in a Fox­hole → Gnat­catch­er)Evan Good­win: Drums (A Bril­liant End­ing → An Eter­nal Decree → Dys­phag­ic)Xavier Scott: Samples/Theremin Live Record­ings (2008) Down­load

Da Pack Foundation

Hip-hop group Da Pack

From their Band­camp page: Da Pack con­sist­ed of two broth­ers, Mau­rice and Jason St. Clair aka Anoindt and Babyfhatz com­bined to form Cunz Of Clavs (“Sons of Slaves”), Tracey Rivers aka Mr. Tre’­men­dous and Emanuel Doss aka the Mad­man Assas­sin…

Southside 220

South­side 220 was a short-lived venue locat­ed in the base­ment floor of Black Label Tat­too, on U.S. Route 220 in Boones Mill / Roanoke Coun­ty. Read more about it here.

Southside 220

Southside 220 / Black Label Tattoo

South­side 220 was a short-lived venue locat­ed in the base­ment floor of Black Label Tat­too, on U.S. Route 220 in Boones Mill / Roanoke Coun­ty. It was in oper­a­tion pri­mar­i­ly in 2009, although it may have had a few events…

The Divots

The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion is from The Val­ley Blend mag­a­zine (arti­cle locat­ed here): When Chuck Berry made his infa­mous appear­ance at Lake­side Amuse­ment Park, and when many R&B acts came to Vir­ginia, those were the days when acts did not trav­el…