Bands form regularly as a result of thriving music communities. But the opposite? Community growing from a single band? It’s rare, but it’s what Warren Campbell has been able to achieve with his continuously evolving rock group, Dead Billionaires. The Richmond-based...
A Deliberate Crescendo: Facetiming With Ascendant Richmond Rock Quartet Hotspit
Range: Hotspit’s got it. The Richmond-based rock band can turn on a dime dynamically, letting a muted, ethereal exploration explode at a moment's notice, or building from quiet to full-tilt catharsis during songs that unfold with great deliberation. The patience and...
Dynamic Journey: An Interview With Abby Huston
Abby Huston made their Egghunt Records debut on Friday with AH HA, a dynamic LP merging R&B and indie pop. In advance of the album's release, Davy Jones spoke to them about the recording process, collaborating with musicians they admire, and more. Released in...
Sweetly Begun: Veteran Spacebomb Artist Andy Jenkins on His Debut Album
On the opening track of his debut full-length album, Sweet Bunch, Andy Jenkins sings, “Man, I would love to finish the book, but I still have pages and pages of lines.” Lucky for us, his story as a singer-songwriter is just beginning. This article originally appeared...
A New Vision in Cosmic Jazz: Kenneka Cook and Moonchild
A debut album is a singular act of creation, ushering in a brand new version of the universe. A blank slate. A new map, with contours distinct from all the cartography that came before. With her debut full-length, Moonchild, Richmond jazz vocalist Kenneka Cook has...
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