WestVirginiaVille

Gabriel Redding of the Redding Brothers knows how to bring a crowd. Like the cops who came when he filmed a music video on an abandoned West Virginia bridge.

“29″ is a song by the band 600LBS OF SIN! that marks a most auspicious one-year anniversary in West Virginia which approaches on April 5.

How a bunch of teenagers came to craft a music video at Berkeley Springs’ Ice House for the Weber Brothers band.

Just in time for David Bowie’s 64th birthday Jan. 8, 2011, a world-debut video of Ann Magnuson’s Bowie homage in Charleston, W.Va., with a Q-and-A about Bowie love.

WestVirginiaVille passes along this official musical wish for you in 2011 – Enjoy Yourself, responsibly. Also: Be kind, no exceptions. Don’t take off the tops of any mountains and …

Courtesy of the Weber Brothers Band, WestVirginiaVille wishes one and all a merry musical Christmas via the band’s original song “Christmas Time in West Virginia.”

“Light Show,” a ruminative music video by The Silent Gondoliers, samples some of the music featured at the Solstice Ball coming up Sunday, Dec. 19 in Charleston, West Virginia.

Finally, a proper ode to The Mystery Hole, a classic roadside attraction in Hawks Nest, W.Va. See the WestVirginiaVille debut of a music-video homage to this famous hole-in-the-road.

In honor of today’s first snowflakes over the International Headquarters of WestVirginiaVille here’s a music video featuring Heidi Muller’s gorgeous song “Snowdance.”

This week’s music video, “There’s a Light” by The Ions is filled with mostly all-West Virginia scenery, from strolling monks to the Red Party. Recorded at The Room Upstairs in Princeton, W.Va.

Mix one West Virginia city, a fish-eye lens attached to the end of your guitar, two members of the band Option 22 and what do you get? This West Virginia Music Video of the Week.

One of the newest, if not the largest, of recent additions to the growing body of memorabilia assembled by the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame is Hasil Adkin’s limo. Well, perhaps we should say ‘limo,” when describing the Hunch-mobile.

Take a hyper-speed street-level view of Huntington, W.Va., in this stop-motion animation compiled from more than 1,700 shots extracted from Google Street View.