In 2014, a sold-out Foo Fighters concert at the National was believed to be the first crowdsourced concert by a major commercial artist anywhere. Regardless of whether you like the Foo Fighters, it was a memorable moment in rock concert history. However, nobody really capitalized on it to promote the city’s own music or arts…
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PICK: Mike Watt and the Missingmen, Piranha Rama and J. Clyde Morris at Richmond Music Hall, Monday Oct. 14
click to enlarge Tonight one of the legit, DIY godfathers of punk bass, Mike Watt of Minutemen fame, returns with his Missingmen trio to Richmond Music Hall downtown. A native of Portsmouth, Va. Watt is more often associated with San Pedro, Ca. where he moved at a young age. A hard-playing road man, this…