John Ruscher

My review of Losing Sleep, the iTunes-topping, major label debut from Charlottesville’s Parachute, is in the current issue of C-VILLE Weekly. Back when they were known as Sparky’s Flaw, I hit the road with the band for an East Coast jaunt  and wrote a cover story about it. As if cursed by the album’s title, [...]

I’ve been having a blast since moving to New York last summer, but every once in a while I’ll come across something that really makes me miss Charlottesville, Virginia. Brendan Fitzgerald’s list of “Forty-five songs that every Charlottesville music fan should know” is one of those things. He hits on a number of my favorite [...]