The No BS! Brass Band’s new album opens with its triumphant declaration: “RVA ALL DAY!” It’s a rally, a rant, a roar, led by 11 brass and percussion players from Richmond, Va., who have combined ...

I reviewed a release by No BS! Brass Band a few years back and it was a fun little album. Whatever revelatory qualities the ensemble lacked in their songs they made up for with good times. With the ...

Anyone planning to see the Richmond-based No BS! Brass Band for the first time should leave any preconceptions at the door. Imagine a New Orleans-inspired, horn-driven band fitting comfortably on the ...

Maybe there's hope in the brass band clubs in New Orleans and the ecstatic No BS! crowds in Richmond—the music finds a relationship with the audience far different from what you'd experience in a ...

Late last month, the No BS! Brass Band stopped by the FORBES headquarters in New York, and much merriment ensued. The Richmond, Va.-based group--co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist Reggie Pace--filled ...

Hanover High School Band Boosters will present Richmond’s own No BS! Brass Band at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, in the auditorium. No BS! Brass has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the ...

It’s not every day you see an 11-man brass band play Lincoln Center, support Feist on tour, or disrupt the august offices of Forbes magazine with a boisterous rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.

The brass-band sound is a proud tradition of New Orleans. But over the years, those horns have evolved to embrace a broader repertoire, full of funk and jazz and even a little hip-hop — and the sounds ...

Had you stopped by the FORBES headquarters the Friday before last, you might have noticed something unusual emanating from the elevators. Not idle chatter about the weather or the Yankees, but ...

Brass bands often bring New Orleans to mind. But some 1,000 miles away from southeast Louisiana, there's a different kind of brass band at work: the No BS! Brass Band of Richmond, Va. Since the late ...

NO BS! Brass Band's latest album is called Brass Knuckles. The brass-band sound is a proud tradition of New Orleans. But over the years, those horns have evolved to embrace a broader repertoire, full ...

It's tough getting 12 musicians to agree on anything. But the members of the Richmond, Va. ensemble are firm in the desire to represent their own... NO BS! Brass Band Transcends The New Orleans Sound ...