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N/A Magazine

keeping you abreast of indie culture since 2006

About Me

Download the N/A Winter 2008 issue now!!!! Click on image to download.
Coupled with the Winter 2008 issue is this single from The Late Virginia Summers. Click on image to download.
N/A is a music review site turned magazine dedicated to informing others about great independent music and local art. This whole thing started by two friends who were into music, wanting to share their own finds with each other and people of like interest. In 2008 this turned into a magazine idea that focuses on independent artists and the lesser "pop" world.
If you are in a band and have some demos or an album you'd like us to review, feel free to send us a message and we'll work something out. We love hearing new music and giving our opinions. Tell all your friends, there's somewhere else besides Pitchfork to inform you about music.
Blogs=News and Reviews
Band Members=Writers + Contributors
Influences=Venues and Points of Interest
Upcoming Shows=VA/DC/MD/NC shows worth going to

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/20/2006
Band Website: this is it
Band Members: Nathan McGlothlin
Aaron Bell

Influences: everything

Area Music Venues and Coolness:

Hampton Roads
Relative Theory Records (RIP)
the Boot
the NorVA
Richmond
Gallery 5
Hyperlink Cafe
The Camel Cafe
Cafe Gutenberg
Washington D.C.
Black Cat
Nightclub 9:30
The Red and the Black
The Rock N Roll Hotel
Baltimore
the Ottobar
Sonar
Charlottesville
Satellite Ballroom
Starr Hill Music Hall
Chapel Hill/Carrboro
Cat's Cradle
Local 506

Sounds Like: Arms & Sleepers
Cinemasophia
Mica Shot a Hole In the Sky
Horseback
Tyler Newbold
The Late Virginia Summers
Ishtar Terra
Cold Toast
Sweater Weather
Marionette
Un Deux Trois
Familiar Trees
A New Dawn Fades
The OK Bird
Jacki P and the Alphabets
Analogueak
Sparrows Swarm + Sing
Alaska in Winter
Poomse
Jatun
Small Sails

Record Label: N/A
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mica Shot a Hole in the Sky - Self-Titled EP (1-31-08)

mica shot a hole in the sky, "mica shot a hole in the sky" (aura of the aurora) EP more sound experimentation from label head matt boman. with M.S.A.H.I.T.S., four pieces are presented as individual ...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:41:00 PST

N/A Magazine set for 2008!!!

Nathan and I will be starting an actual magazine release on a quarterly basis beginning January 2008! This will be released via PDF through a mailing list and in paper format at local venues, coffee s...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:14:00 PST

Feature: Marionette & Un Deux Trois (11-29-07)

3 - marionette (richmond va) &normally, the playfulness of more folk type outings is not found in the shadows of the indie rock elitist snobbery. normally, the only place to find a sing along in the ...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:42:00 PST

REVIEW: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (11-29-07)

Bon Iver - 'For Emma, Forever Ago' [2008; Jagjaguwar] LP- If you're familiar with acts like Bowerbirds, Jose Gonzalez, Damien Jurado and Akron/Family the music will sound familiar. However, it's not t...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:37:00 PST

Feature: Sweater Weather & M.S.A.H.I.T.S. (11-19-07)

N/A Southeastern United States feature 1. This is something we've decided to do here this fall. This is the first installment of a series that will feature bands in our area (mainly VA/DC/MD/NC) who w...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:39:00 PST

SHOW REVIEW: TLVS, Horseback, the Black and Mike Tamburo

SHOW: mike tamburo, the black, horseback, TLVSVENUE: the starlight café (512 clay st, lynchburg va 24501)&on what ended up being a rather chilly evening in the hill city, asmall crowd gathered to take...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:20:00 PST

REVIEW: Sanchez is driven by demons - ’and friends’ (11-8-07)

sanchez is driven by demons , "and friends" (redstar community) LP  to label "and friends" as the new record by this swedish collective would be a misnomer. what is presented with "and friends" is a ...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:47:00 PST

REVIEW: Sigur Ros - ’Hvarf-Heim’ (11-2-07)

Hvarf- Hvarf is a collection of 3 new songs and two remakes. The three new songs, Salka, Hljómalind, and Í Gær remind me more of (  ) than anything else. Although they a fuller sound, the mood is...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:09:00 PST

REVIEW: Castanets - ’In the Vines’ 10-31-07

castanets, "in the vines" ( 2007; asthmatic kitty) LP  "in the vines", the group (term used in its loosest sense) is yet another foray into the wandering spirit of ray raposa. much like 2005's "first...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:51:00 PST

SHOW REVIEW: Jens Lekman @ the Black Cat 10-25-07

Jens Lekman @ the Black Cat (Washington, D.C.) 10-25-07 with opening act Patrick Cleandenim and the Living ImagePatrick Cleandenim, a curly haired Sinatra-esque swooner from New York city, opened the ...
Posted by N/A Magazine on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:52:00 PST