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The Comic Con Geekity Speakity w/ special guest Baby Huey

Tonight the Geeks welcome a special guest from the Gods of Bobble Heads show Brandon Fox aka "Big Baby Huey!" Along with our special guest we Geek about Comic Con, 3G/4G myths, why TV shows are even at Comic Con, and more. So join us...Same Geek Time...Same Geek Channel, well Podcast...

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Things get WEIRD again this Saturday at NYD

Soren Well & Telltale @ 10pm
...amazing reverb-saturated post punk dark and dreamy shoegaze.....
......from NYC playing WEIRD as part of their East Coast tour!!!!!......

http://www.myspace.com/sorenwellnoise
http://www.myspace.com/telltalemusic

Followed by Richmond DJs A.D.E.N. and Fuk Stik Johnson spinning electro!!!!!
Fuk Stik Johnson (Brandon from BbopNRokstedy)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134438646593404
A.D.E.N
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ADEN/143083382370339?ref=ts

@ NY Deli
10pm - Close
FREE
21+

DRINK DANCE MAKE OUT
LET’S GET WEIRD!!!!!

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Napalm Dream – An Interview with Tenement’s Amos Pitsch

Tenement is a three-piece noisy pop punk band from a small town in Wisconsin called Appleton. Guitar player and vocalist Amos Pitsch is probably the most talented musician you’ve never heard of. Scorching solos work their way into catchy, riffy hooks with gruff, lo-fi vocals that make me think of what it would be like if the Kinks had been a Ramones-core band. When he’s not playing guitar, Pitsch is usually doing something music related. Tenement just got back from tour with Chicago’s Chinese Telephones, for whom Pitsch played drums during the tour.

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DAILY RECORD: Sundials

Sundials - The First Six Songs (Self-Released)

The sheer fact that a band like Sundials calls Richmond, Virginia their home brings a smile to my face. Sundials is a band that predicates itself on having fun and reflecting on passing years. Their flickering memories are littered with familiar faces and good times. Throughout The First Six Songs, the band takes their cues from their influences, but avoid sounding stale or dated. The lyrics are built around conversational mainstays and foundations, elevating these ideas to their fullest potential as well as offering affecting significance to these images.

In “Neighborhood Well,” there is a touching sentiment to the idea of the history that is carried through objects usually considered to be arbitrary. In the use of a well as a device, the song allows mediums to be spoken beyond literal interpretation. It could be considered that a well maintains itself around its containment of secrets and truths. When taking that concept and reiterating it towards the sentimentality displayed in our daily interactions, perhaps we are all on an adventure to escape our safety nets. In doing so, we enact a means of unveiling our true selves to those that matter most.

Sundials are a band to be excited about. After sifting through The First Six Songs, I cant wait to hear the next batch of tunes they have in store for all of us.

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Wild Wild West at RVALUTION 18

Tonight is RVALUTION 18: Wild Wild West featuring Jackie O from DC. You can listen to her absolutely kill it on RVA RADIO Jackie O, "GRIND", she is coming to Richmond and cannot be missed. We are stoked to see her tonight at the Hat Factory.

If you like the photo above taken by our own Ben Muri, make sure to check out the whole set on his Facebook HERE. There are pics of monkeys, ringmasters and general craziness.

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USE "RVA" PROMO CODE FOR 1/2 OFF!
VIP access is back if you've got the skrilla: The Fast Pass. Don't wait in line, chill in the 3rd floor balcony/suites, you know the deal.

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Fangoria Debuts Municipal Waste "Acid Sentence" Video

Richmond ragers Municipal Waste have just released a new video for their song "Acid Sentence," from last year's Massive Aggressive LP (Earache Records). With its combination of slasher mayhem and thrashing madness, it looks like the best video you'd see on any given episode of Headbanger's Ball circa 1990--except a lot gorier. Therefore, it's fitting that the video premiered yesterday on fangoria.com, the internet home of the long-running magazine devoted to all things horror.

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DAILY RECORDS: Avenged Sevenfold, Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire, Cruel Hand

Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (Warner Bros)
When Avenged Sevenfold started, their James Hetfield-ian vocal mannerisms helped their take on metalcore stand out in a cookie-cutter scene. Since then, though, they've followed in Metallica's footsteps in all the wrong ways. This new album is their Load, and I mean that in the most negative sense possible.

Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire - Songs Of Ill Hope And Desperation (Prosthetic)
Harsh, scathing grindcore. The sort of overdriven production that sounds loud even when you turn it way down, combined with blistering speed and harsh guttural screams. Abrupt tempo changes and technical riffing help avoid monotony, but this is still straightforward enough to be terrifying. I'm hiding under my bed now.

Cruel Hand - Lock And Key (Bridge Nine)
This record is proof that good production can go a long way. Cruel Hand's modern hardcore is undistinguished in every way--cliche lyrics, generic song structure, workmanlike musicianship--but it sounds so great that it can fool you at first. Boredom inevitably sets in, though. Great production can't fix everything.

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DAILY RECORD: Talk Is Poison

Talk Is Poison - Rage To Infinity (Self-Released)

The late ‘90s weren’t exactly a creative pinnacle for hardcore. Many of the bands who had created the best material of the previous decade had either broken up (Los Crudos, His Hero Is Gone) or started turning out subpar material in an attempt to curry favor with larger crowds (Integrity). A great number of people were enraptured by metalcore and pop-emo, genres that would soon use underground music as a stepping stone to Hot Topic and MTV2 “success.” But there were exceptions, and Oakland, California’s Talk Is Poison was one of the most notable. In their brief existence – the band released only two and a half EPs worth of material between 1998 and 1999– they managed to put to shame pretty almost all of their contemporaries with a combination of unbridled aggression, off-kilter songwriting, and a lyrical approach which offered a defiant, scathing vision of the degradation and abuse inherent to late capitalist society, without relying on cheap sloganeering or cliché.

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DEVO was in Richmond.

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Get a Round In?

Here in Richmond we have truly hit the doldrums of Summer. Sizzling days give way to equally humid and unforgiving nights that leave us wanting nothing more than the power of freon. Nevertheless, I still find the courage to walk to favored watering holes on steamy nights. After a few blocks on foot, my need for a beer becomes abundantly necessary. Upon entering, my gaze desperately turns to tap hands, combs the beer menus. What do I need? Frankly, I am looking for light beer.

No, not the tasteless domestic fizzy stuff, but beer that is golden, flavorful and hopefully independent. I better be able to get four or five down and still be able to wake up early the next day without a headache. What I am looking for is what is commonly called a "session" beer, and many Richmond bars and retails shops are happy to give me this fix. A "session" beer commonly refers to beers that will not overtly punish the drinker if he or she were to take one pint after another over the course of a few hours. It should have flavor, but never become the center of attention. For the sake of stamina, it should be under 4.5% alcohol by volume (but under five gives more options.) And that last one of the night should taste better than the first.