Decade of Difference: k.d. lang

Happy Birthday k.d. lang, the Canadian musician who has won multiple Grammys plus Canada’s biggest music prize the Juno Award. A native of Edmonton, Lang started on a musical career after developing a fascination with [...]

Decade of Difference: Brandi Carlile

Brandi Carlile grew up in a small town outside of Seattle and learned to make her own fun. That included teaching herself piano and guitar and deciding early that music was going to be her [...]

Decade of Difference: Alice Cooper

The first band to bring shock rock to the masses, Alice Cooper came from a high school friendship between a pair of cross country runners in Arizona. After playing under a variety of band names, [...]

Listen Now: Charles Wesley Godwin In-Studio Session

West Virginia singer/songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin talks about how a failed attempt at playing college football eventually got him started writing songs and shares live performances from his new album How The Mighty Fall [...]

Decade of Difference: KISS

Conceived as a cross of the campy theatrics of Alice Cooper and the glam rock sound of the New York Dolls, KISS took the teenage world of the ‘70s by storm. Many were first attracted [...]

Decade of Difference: Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy had one giant hit in the 70’s with The Boys Are Back In Town, but the Irish band was a well regarded hard rock band for several decades. Brian Downey and Phil Lynott [...]

Decade of Difference: The Tubes

With a debut album coming in 1975, The Tubes came together with members from two bands from Arizona that had both relocated to San Francisco. One of the bands’ first gigs was at the Art [...]

Hear Together: Birth In Color RVA

Founded in 2018, Birth In Color RVA is a birth, policy, and advocacy nonprofit working towards better outcomes in maternal health and reproductive justice for women of color. The maternal mortality rates in the United [...]

Decade of Difference: Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton’s long career is highlighted by one extremely bright spot - 1976’s Frampton Comes Alive!. The double album launched multiple hit singles and sold over 8 million copies. Frampton was not a one hit [...]

Watch Now: Sean Rowe In-Studio Session

Alternative folk troubadour Sean Rowe plays live for a group of WNRN members at In Your Ear studios in Richmond. In addition to playing songs from new album The Darkness Dressed in Colored [...]