Leaving the country on Thursday for two weeks. Get your order in before then and it’ll go out before I split.✈️🐓✈️
07.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The Sad Song Highway Run was full of good times! Great to finally play NYC and Philly. Capped off with a special vibe-heavy night in Frederick, MD.
Big love to @natexander.bsky.social and his killer band. A real treat to hear ya’ll bring it every night.
28.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming up real soon with @natexander.bsky.social :
9/18 - Alphaville - Brooklyn, NY
9/19 - Century - Philly, PA
9/20 - Sky Stage - Frederick, MD
Get tix: thecheapdates.org/shows
02.09.2025 02:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WarHen Records
Record Label est. 2012 in Charlottesville VA
You can get the entire discography for 15% off this weekend with code LABOR at checkout. Lots of great music available from Babe Lewis, Ernie Francestine, Seawind of Battery, Phil Cook, Dogwood Tales, Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, Elkhorn, Mike Frazier & more!
warhenrecords.bandcamp.com/music
29.08.2025 14:07 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
FRIDAY
12.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Includes both of our LPs which are getting pretty low. Great time to grip.
warhenrecords.bandcamp.com/music
31.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Big thanks to @ynstmagazine.bsky.social for the spotlight!
Their new music issue is out now.
Read the full feature, where you can also check out their excellent playlist that finds us in good company: eepurl.com/jkgXSk
30.07.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Playing on a beautiful rooftop stage (Sky Stage) in Frederick, MD on 9/20 w/ dear buds Mr. Husband & @natexander.bsky.social 🩷
Grab tix: www.eventbrite.com/e/concert-mr...
29.07.2025 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to announce the Sad Song Highway Run with bud @natexander.bsky.social & friends!
NYC, Philly, Frederick. Can’t wait to see some pals!
NYC tix: dice.fm/event/oe69bg...
Also feat. amazing friends like @labrador-tunes.bsky.social & more!
15.07.2025 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow in Charleston!
You can also livestream the set over at m.youtube.com/daily304
11.07.2025 02:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful poster for our upcoming 8/15 gig at the sober all-ages venue Pumzi’s in Charleston, WV. Thanks to Jimbo Valentine for the design.
We have a lot of great shows coming up + more being announced very soon.
Check em out: thecheapdates.org/shows
02.07.2025 11:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
We’ve got tapes! For the first time ever, grab our first two albums on high-quality cassette courtesy of 21st Century Lo-Fi. They’ll be on the merch table at upcoming gigs.
Speaking of:
Fri, 6/27 - Golden Pony - Harrisonburg (early! Doors at 6!)
Sat, 6/28 - Shepherdstown Street Fest - 1:45 pm
23.06.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Restless Spirit, by Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates
11 track album
Please consider picking up a @thecheapdates.bsky.social LP. Tucker’s hometown in WV was ravished by floods this weekend & we are donating all money raised to relief efforts.
tuckerriggleman.bandcamp.com/album/restle...
16.06.2025 23:42 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ringing in the summer with this townie throwdown at The Golden Pony in Harrisonburg, VA next Friday, 6/27 with local legends Uncle Bengine and Mothman Rodeo!
Early show, doors at 6, music at 6:30 sharp. See you there!
19.06.2025 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tucker’s hometown in Marion County, WV was wrecked by devastating floods over the weekend. We will be donating 100% of online sales to the Tygart Valley United Way Flood Assistance Fund until further notice.
Great time to grab a record, CD, shirt or sweatshirt.
thecheapdates.org/store
17.06.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TRCD SUMMER 2025 // 🎣 🎸
See ya out there!
☀️
05.06.2025 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
See you in Shepherdstown, WV on 6/28 for Street Fest!
We play at 1:45 p.m. on the main stage. Free to attend!
04.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Playing our first full-band Morgantown show in over a year on 7/18 at @123pleasant.bsky.social w/ The Phantom Six & Noise in the Attic!
Expect some brand new tunes + old favs.
Grab tix: www.showclix.com/event/tucker...
03.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This run of shows has been so fun. Help us put a bow on it tonight at Waterfront Hall in Wheeling!
Doors at 8:30, Stone Campus kicks it off at 9.
26.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple Fiddle tonight at 8 p.m. w/ Midnight Lamb!
See ya on the mountain.
⛰️
24.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ringing in a beautiful West Virginia spring with three rippers this week! 🌸
22.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Playing a stripped down trio gig (no drums) at everyone’s favorite hot dog bar on 6/6 in Morgantown, WV.
Free show!
11.04.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just announced!
Big summer throwdown at one of our many homes, The Golden Pony in Harrisonburg, VA.
Catch us on 6/27 w/ pals Uncle Bengine and Mothman Rodeo.
Grab tix: www.eventbrite.com/e/tucker-rig...
🎨: @warhenrecords.bsky.social
02.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rare Tucker solo gig this Friday + some poetry. Free!
01.04.2025 18:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
28.03.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
28.03.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
28.03.2025 00:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Saturday was our 100th show. Tucker wrote some words about it. 🧵
28.03.2025 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Getting our asses back in the van (Rav 4) for a couple good ones this weekend:
Tomorrow (Friday):
Green Lantern - Lexington, KY
w/ Dogwood Tales & Otto Helmuth
$10 / 21+ / doors at 8
Saturday:
Villager Tavern - Nashville, TN
w/ tons of bands
FREE / we play at 9 sharp
20.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast 2009-2020
Currently digging through old hard drives & sharing the conversations on CountryFriedRock.com.
Host Sloane Spencer posts on her account & started another completely different show, the Gen X sleep podcast SleepWithRockStars.com.
Heartland Rock/Alt-Country musician/writer/producer. Jack of all trades, except for actual trades. Born in the Rust Belt, raised in the Beltway, currently living in Nashville. Diehard Bills fan. https://linktr.ee/alexblizzy
Mostly links to Garage-Punk(& adjacent) stuff. We got: new releases, live video, articles, playlists, upcoming shows, zine history, blog roll, radio shows, old stuff, etc.
Playlists here: https://linktr.ee/rapidadapter
Have you been inspired, consoled, or driven to kicking off your shoes throwin’ em on the floor and dancin’ in the kitchen till the mornin’ light by country music?
Well, come on in: https://a-better-country.ghost.io/the-syllabus/
hullabalootunes.com // Hullabaloo is a blog for music and writing. And sometimes music writing.
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
English bloke playing the best Americana tracks every week Mondays 8pm UK https://welwynhatfieldradio.com/
Friday 4pm UK https://www.smartradio101.com
Listen Again Saturday https://www.mixcloud.com/AMHighway/
Richmond's alternative for arts, culture and food news.
Covering all songs, albums, videos, concerts, & news coming out of the Richmond, Virginia music scene. Always listening.
https://linktr.ee/theauricular
WV indie/emo-adjacent. So tired, but releasing LP1 soon with the most personal & vulnerable songs I’ve written so far. (Link below: 2020 protest EP, unfortunately still relevant)
📍 West Virginia
🎵 seascoutmusic.bandcamp.com
Local culture since 2005 • RVA • Richmond, Virginia #rvamag
@rvamag
Find our stories here: https://linktr.ee/Rvamag
Rainbow Rodeo is a site, zine, and podcast devoted to promoting queer country artists. Edited by @rachelcholst.bsky.social
We are a Chicagoland DIY forever music label. We release beautiful LPs & tapes for basement songmakers, gentle weirdos & melancholic introverts from all over.
https://linktr.ee/orindalrecords
Putting the A in “awkward Americana”
📍Tacoma, WA (by way of WV)
greatcometmusic.com
Advocate for artists in Appalachia, curator, author, artist. Website SusanFeller.com
