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RVA Bass Bulletin #8: Powered By White Raver Rafting
What’s good, RVA bass fans! Gearing up for the Paper Diamond and Polish Ambassador show at the Canal Club tonight.
REBEL @ Republic w/ Long Jawns & Doddie
Get your first Friday party on with Long and Doddie of the Audio Ammo crew as REBEL continues to be a proven destination to start your weekend off right!
DAILY FIX: Liturgy, "True Will"
Brooklyn-based black metal band Liturgy have had a divisive presence in the music scene over the past year or so, with many going nuts over their second album, Aesthethica, and just as many people reviling their lack of evil metal "cred" and their unwillingness to "keep it real." I personally am very much pro-Liturgy, even going so far as to make Aesthethica my album of the year for 2011. And therefore it is with great joy that I bring you the newest video from the band, for Aesthethica's raging track "True Will."
DAILY RECORD: Poison Idea
Poison Idea – Darby Crash Rides Again (Southern Lord Records)
The relatively recent trend of plundering hardcore's darkest recesses for the previously unheard and unknown can come dangerously close to the sort of necrophiliac nostalgia to which the music was supposed to stand antithetical from the start. It's an approach that assumes the greater listening public really needs to hear, say, John Porcelly's high school band; that bringing such things to light is a worthwhile endeavor; and that these documents have some sort of de facto authenticity, simply because of their age or proximity to something relevant or popular.
One Way Richmond's Show Picks 2/2-2/4
Thursday, 2/2, Rehab, Rittz, Downbeat Switch (pictured above) @ Canal Club 7:30pm 18+
RPG Kickstarter Project Needs Your Help!
Richmond stoner metal group RPG has been working for quite a while on their soon-to-be-released new LP, High Loathsome, and now the end of their quest is in sight.
RVA Bands Hit 2012's Biggest Music Festivals
Festival season is almost upon us, and you know what that means. Many Richmond bands will be taking their sound on the road and spreading the good word.
SOUL CORNER #2, by DJ Pari
Richmond based DJ Pari is the host of the monthly Soulpower dance party at Balliceaux and co-host of Midnight Soulstice on WRIR 97.3 fm (every Friday from 11pm until 1am.) Pari spins at clubs and festivals worldwide, and he has worked with Soul legends like James Brown, The Impressions, Marva Whitney, Bobby Byrd, Mandrill, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and many more. For this monthly column, he reviews five records from his collection - rare vinyl, common finds, new and old jams.
WEDNESDAY: Radio Rubber Room Presents Soundstorm At Republic!
This week, it's the premiere of Radio Rubber Room's new Wednesdays At The Republic With The Dream Machine event, which kicks off in fine fashion with a great headlining set from Soundstorm!
SHOW REVIEW: Diamond Center/White Laces/Super Vacations/Snowy Owls
The Diamond Center, White Laces, The Super Vacations, and The Snowy Owls
Friday, January 20 at Strange Matter
There are times when I think this city has it too good, and January 20th was one of them. There were multiple opportunities to catch live music that Friday night. Black Girls were at Balliceaux, while their Worthless Junk Records compatriots the No BS! Brass Band were killing it at the Camel. While the allure of seeing either of these groups was tempting, my destination for this cold, rainy night, on which thoughts of staying in and keeping warm were also tempting, was Strange Matter.
BASSNECTAR 'Amorphous Music Mixtape Vol. 7'
The Bassnectar camp just dropped this nugget on us and we had to put it on blast immediately. You know he is coming to RVA in a bit?
WEDNESDAY: Anvil At Strange Matter!
That's right everyone, prepare to get rocked by the legendary veterans of Canadian thrash metal, Anvil! Touring the US behind their recent career anthology, Monument Of Metal, Anvil will be bringing their hard n' heavy live show to Strange Matter this Wednesday.
DAILY RECORD: Earth
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord Records)
With the exception of the aesthetic one-eighty that Earth took five or six years ago that shifted their music from monolithic drone metal to a more low-key approach invoking all manner of Americana and Old West imagery, the band's output has rarely offered many immediately appreciable surprises.
RVA Bass Bulletin #7: Powered By White Raver Rafting
The fact that my schoolwork hindered the timely completion of the Bass Bulletin this week is playing in you faithful readers’ favor. Couple awesome things this week, the first being the Porter Robinson BBC Radio 1 Stream.
DAILY FIX: New D'Angelo!
The true master of RVA R&B, D'Angelo, hasn't released an album since the incredible Voodoo came out 12 years ago (yes, it really has been that long), but it looks like our long wait might be over soon
DAILY RECORD: Encoffination
Encoffination – O' Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres (Selfmadegod Records)
Anyone versed in the language of metal's heavier fringes probably won't have too hard a time figuring this one out.
FRIDAY: Dub Nation RVA 3 Year Anniversary At Kingdom!
The third anniversary of Steez Promo's epic three-city party Dub Nation hits RVA this Friday night, featuring heavy hitters Vaski and Crizzly, plus a set from Richmond's own Mike Phear, and plenty more party music to keep things rolling all night long!
One Way Richmond's Show Picks 1/26-1/29
Thursday, 1/26 DJ set by Reuben Wu (Of Ladytron) (pictured above), along with DJ Ghost, M.A.S.S FX, Reinhold,DJ Phenom @ The Hat Factory 9pm.
TONIGHT: Beat Battle VII At The Camel
It goes down tonight! Charged Up Ent x Hip Hop VA x Sam Ash present Beat Battle VII. Bring your ears and five bones, or your beats on CD/jumpdrive with ten bones to The Camel at 9PM. The top producer takes home a one-hundred dollar gift certificate. The runner-up grabs fifty. Everyone who enters the battle takes home $10 to Sam Ash.
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