Richmond Counterculture / Shockoe Sessions
Richmond Counterculture/Shockoe Sessions feat Charlie Glenn, Leslie and The Dots, Roughshod, and Gull!
For this episode we’re rockin’ out to the sounds of Charlie Glenn, Leslie & The Dots, Roughshod, and Gull!
Charlie Glenn
Charlie Glenn is a Richmond artist that has performed and/or recorded with: Thao, J Roddy Walston, Palm Palm, The Head & The Heart, Illiterate Light, Avers, and The Trillions!
Charlie Glenn performing on Shockoe Sessions Live! Nov 12th 2024
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Leslie and The Dots
Leslie Lilburn is a Northside singer-songwriter who grew up in scenic Front Royal, VA and moved to Richmond in 2021. His vocation was thrust upon him in his youth as a result of constant and intense exposure to the music of the British Invasion; later in life, a love of the country music of the 60’s and 70’s seeped into his brain. The powerful synthesis that resulted produces songs of joy, beauty, and heartbreak that would make a fine addition to the soundtrack of a Tarantino film. He passes his time in a well-appointed garage studio, Murphy’s Pocket, with his band, The Dots.
The Dots came to be through serendipitous occurrences, years of friendship, and frequenting a delicious RVA staple of a restaurant, Dots Back Inn. Consisting of Michael Lamp, Robin Liebenthal, Robert Whitehead, and Kevin Vorhis, The Dots bring a plethora of varied musical influences together to help create something beautifully unique, yet complimentary to Leslie’s songwriting.
Leslie and The Dots performing on Shockoe Sessions Live! Sept 9th 2025
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Roughshod
Roughshod is a groove-heavy, alternative rock band from Richmond, Virginia. The group’s driving rhythm section, unique arrangements, and bold vocals create a sound that is as
accessible as it is surprising. With songs in Spanish and English and off-center chordings, their songs fuse pieces of the band members’ varied backgrounds.
Having formed in 2021, Roughshod wrote the songs for their first EP, Attic Hours, at Austin’s house (guitar, vocals) while waiting for live music to return to the world. This imposed
woodshedding led to the band’s tight-knit chemistry that draws fans to their high energy shows today.
Roughshod performing on Shockoe Sessions Live! Sept 16th 2025
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GULL
GULL is “best described as a drum; a living, breathing drum of flesh on fire that cries out assorted tongues of creatures past and delivers it from a single unique perspective; a communal music broadcast of blood and bile left as an offering on the altar of sound.”
Nathaniel Rappole’s solo music endeavor, Gull, was conceived on an endangered wildlife preserve in Front Royal, VA in 1999, and has been publicly active since 2007. Gull has recorded a 7″, 6 EPs, 3 full lengths, and has traveled vigorously-playing venues, on the streets, and in the wilds of Canada, United States, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, and SE Asia.
Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts, RNDM, and Saxsquatch, and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Sleaford Mods, Tatsuya Nakatani, Zeta, Ruby The Hatchet, Panda Bear, Mdou Moctar, Dan Deacon, Godcaster, and Melt Banana. In 2012, Gull was featured in a movie about music in Mexico called Hecho en Mexico, and in 2014 he produced and performed in a documentary on street/public music in Kenya (Street Muse Kenya), which premiered at The Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. In April of 2016, Gull performed and answered questions pertaining to his travels at TedX in Richmond, VA, and in 2017 he contributed an improvised performance to Grotesque Tables ii – Noah Wall’s anagramic reimagining of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies deck of cards from 1975.
In December, 2019, Gull went to Thailand and Laos to film a new doc (Street Muse Thailand) in an ongoing series about musical ecology and culture around the world. In January of 2023 and again in December of 2024, Gull was an artist in residence at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN and set up an impromptu recording studio while incorporating captured sounds of the city’s environment
GULL performing on Shockoe Sessions Live! May 20th 2025