by Glenn Rose

It’s not often that anyone in the music scene I like comes out of my city/area. I live in Virginia Beach and we’re the hometown of: Timbaland, Pharrel, Missy Elliot, and Trey Songz, so we definitely have a hip hop presence in the area, but the Last Bison has broken our streak on bands making it to the bigger time being hip hop music. They are large sounding indie folk music and it makes sense why they’d be big sounding seeing as they have seven members in the group that all play different instruments. This band is pretty “new” but they seem to have a very tight bond between them, maybe because three of the members are related (dad, son, and daughter, and mother as the manager). Music now, especially in the indie genre are content with standing still and not interacting with one another. The Last Bison decided that wasn’t for them. You have to see them to fully appreciate the way they preform together. Just take a look at them, and it is clear to see that they are a group of family and friends preforming music that they love, that has a positive message along with it.

Now clearly I’m from the streets and only listen to the hardest of rap music (DMX is a wuss) and this group of folky guys and gals that dress up in clothes from the 1800s shouldn’t usually be my scene, but I gave them a chance last year and let me tell you, I was not disappointed. There’s something to be said about bands that step just far enough away from a growing genre and make it their own. If you haven’t heard of them yet, go look up their album Inheritance and buy it ASAP.