Blue Sausage Infant (née Chester Hawkins) has been releasing recordings for well over twenty years. But up until now, these recordings have been home-made, and therefore, of varying degrees of sound quality. His first mass-produced (and professionally mixed) album, Flight of the Solstice Queens, primarily focuses on creating a transcendental experience through the layering of ambient sounds and electronic fuzz. Many people may see such a description and the “experimental music” tag attached to…

Photo by erin_m This was a good year for the Three Stars feature. We got to talk with a lot of up and coming local musical acts who specialize in a variety of styles. We foresee great things happening for acts like Pree and Laughing Man, and we even talked to now-Grammy nominee Christylez. Here, we recount some of our favorite moments from Three Stars interviews we conducted this year. The most interesting and…

Blue Sausage Infant in performance last February at the Blue Nile in Harrisonburg, VA, courtesy IntangibleArts on Flickr The Velvet Lounge was, at best, half full, but the man onstage doesn’t seem to care. Armed with only a computer, a mixer and a few free floating toys, he bobs and jams the way that few people armed with such tools do, while pumping out a rhythmic pulsating tune that floats into moments of ambiance….