The Honey Dew Drops : Monkey Session

Check out this collage of photos from our relaxing and enjoyable July Monkey Session with The Honey Dew Drops.

These two wonderful musicians majestically settled into Monkeyclaus quite comfortable. Setting up their zone in the Live Room , they began the music making process with a few home made dehydrated sour cherries picked from Peter’s [...]

Marissa Nadler: Dream the Spectral Dream

Intoning morose tales drenched in reverb is Marissa Nadler’s gift and passion. She also works out some lovely, self-taught, two-finger-picking guitar in the vein of some legendary dead players. The sum of these two talents is a haunting sound, which enchants and transports listeners to strange places. Monkeyclaus was fortunate enough to [...]

Akron/Family Tour: Then Go In All Directions

Akron Family Tour

The recent Akron/Family show in Charlottesville, Virginia at the Satellite Ballroom, was a heartwarming and curious spectacle. It was a marathon set, cosmically infused, and chocked full o’ “schizo-frenetic” delights. After local openers, The Great White Jenkins, delivered a sweet and contemplative set, the house music quickly changed over to [...]

Holy Bear Crossing: Bobby St. Ours Solo Album Represents the Blue Ridge Spirit

Robert St. Ours is an old soul. You can see it in his eyes and hear it in his voice. He’s an All-American original in the purest sense. He is one of the many things that make America a great land, despite all the thieves and the crooks, the indiscriminate bombs, the wayward [...]

Late Night Hang: MV & EE, Grand Banks, and Kohoutek explore and share far out sounds at Dust

Matt Valentine and Erika Elder came to the Dust warehouse, in Charlottesville Virginia, on Sunday February 4th to headline an evening of cosmic free music and improvisation. The duo grooved a special “late night hang” joined by their dog Zuma. MV&EE currently live and make sounds in Brattleboro, Vermont where Valentine organized the Free Folk [...]

Monkey Session #5: Tanakh Delivers The Goods From Italy

Summoning the days of yore, Tanakh’s Monkey Session was something which captured the true spirit of traveling musicians.  The recording session showcased the resilience of the human spirit and the power found in turning duress into beauty.  The Italian five-piece collective arrived to our studio road-weary and bleary-eyed at midnight, after a 14 hour drive [...]

Drakkar Sauna : Two-Headed Crooner Beast

Listen to Drakkar Sauna at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
Jeffrey A. Stolz and Wallace J. Cochran are bandits from Lawrence, Kansas who steal hearts and blow minds. They are a two-headed crooner beast. In the world of nomadic-folk-rock they are perhaps best known as inventors of the tambourine shoe. Carefully balancing [...]

Bobby St.Ours New Solo Album Coming this Summer

Over the years you may have heard the beauty of Bobby’s singing and songwriting with great local bands such as The Hackensaw Boy’s and The Virginia Jihad. You can still occasionally catch a live solo performance in or around Charlottesville, but for the most part he has been spending his time in the great Blue [...]

Sarah White – Live from The Jefferson Theater

Listen to Sarah White live from the Jefferson Theater.
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Monkeyclaus is additionally very excited to facilitate the live recording of Sarah White also from the Jefferson Theater on April 20, 2006. Miss White is Charlottesville’s best kept secret in the artistic realm along with Hillbilly Werewolf. An underground [...]

King Wilkie – Live from the Jefferson Theater April 20th 2006

Listen to King Wilkie Live at the Jefferson Theater April 20th 2006.
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On April 20th 2006, Monkeyclaus recorded King Wilkie live at the Jefferson Theater in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. It was an idyllic Virginia spring evening as the music echoed out into the downtown pedestrian mall, and King Wilkie delighted hundreds [...]