Virginia

Watch GWAR drummer Jizmak Da Gusha visit the site of the now-redecorated statue, manager Sleazy P Martini discuss the controversy on a new GWAR live show, and more...

Danica Roem, who is the lead vocalist of thrash metal band Cab Ride Home, is also the first openly transgender person to be elected (and re-elected) to a state legislature.

She unseats Republican Robert G. Marshall, who introduced the state's transphobic "bathroom bill" (similar to the one that passed in North Carolina) and who has referred to himself as Virginia's "chief homophobe."

Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival would be returns various Williamsburg venues (Output, Verboten, Good Room and Music Hall of Williamsburg included) from Novemb...

Kanye West collaborator Paul McCartney has added a few more summer tour dates to his itinerary. After he helps close out the Friday of Firefly in Delaware, he'll play a few shows in Philadelphia, Charlottesville, and Columbia, SC...

While the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was setting up their new Beyonce exhibit, a new music museum was celebrating its opening weekend down in Bristol...

GWAR at GWAR-B-Q, 2013 (More by Josh Sisk) These are cynical times. If announcements pimping the unabated flow of GWAR merch have made you wince once or twice, I don't blame you...

Holy Ghost! at Williamsburg Park, 7/24/2013 (more by PSquared Photography) Holy Ghost! opened for New Order last week at Williamsburg, and did pretty well with a big crowd I thought...

Metallica, who will be performing the Black Album and Ride the Lightning (but not Master of Puppies) at their own Orion Festival in Atlantic City which is coming up soon (tickets are still on sale), recorded a PSA for the Virginia State Police, that you can watch below...

today in NYC * Wye Oak @ US Open * Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * Diamond Head @ BB King's * Rachelle Garniez @ Barbes * MC Chris @ Death By Audio * Michael Pisaro @ The Stone * Antoine Beuger @ The Stone * Wise Blood, D'eon, Cities Aviv @ Glasslands * Karl Denson's Tiny Universe @ Brooklyn Bowl * Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman @ City Winery * Forest Fire, Caged Animals, Dive @ Shea Stadium * The Morning After Girls, The Rassle @ Mercury Lounge * Love Butchers, Degreaser, Heavy Birds @ Bruar Falls * The Dirty Pearls, Her Virgins, Blackbells @ Maxwell's * Pictureplane, Autre Ne Veut, DJ Dog Dick @ Cameo Gallery * Haunted Hauses, Monogold, Hani and the Thief @ Union Pool * Lo Down Loretta Brown aka Erykah Badu (DJ), Adrian Younge @ Le Poisson Rouge * Tomorrow's Tulips, Vartan, Mister Melt, Emil & Friends, Starlight Girls @ Pianos * Casey Shea Band, Zach Williams, Only Son, Emergency Service, Jon Jonsson @ Rockwood Music Hall Check out This Week In Indie for more...