Some of the best Fourth of July celebrations in Richmond aren’t on any official list. They’re happening in backyards, driveways, and cul-de-sacs, surrounded by folding chairs, coolers, and whatever’s still working on the grill. If you’ve got good friends and a halfway...
A few months ago I reviewed Tyler, the Creator’s new record, Goblin, and opened myself up to some criticism regarding my response to the record’s misogynistic, homophobic, and rape-glorifying lyrical content. The lines that most people seemed to take issue with were: “Go ahead and tell me that I just don’t get it, I’ll tell you that you’re a rape...
Monday, 9/12 Secretly Y'all Presents: The Musician's Secret featuring Zach Hryciak, Browning Porter, Herschel Stratego (pictured above), Cole Sullivan, Chris Milk, Lydia Ooghe, Andy Vaughn, Chris McNew @ Balliceaux 7pm. Monday, 9/12 Eternal Summers (pictured above), Reading Rainbow, Articulate Chewbacca @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (414 E. Main...
Pittsburgh DJ Gregg Gillis may not have invented the art of the mash-up, but few would deny that he's perfected it. His recordings may exist in a legal grey area, but there's no doubt about the awesomeness of his performances. Creating music with nothing but a laptop covered in shrinkwrap (to protect it from sweat), Girl Talk's live sets are...
Sept 10-11th RVA Magazine and Phull Entertainment will host the first annual RVA Music Fest! Nothing like this has ever been done within the Greater Richmond Metro area since long before your moms mom could remember. With forty five local bands, two nationally touring acts and an seemingly endless list of DJ's, this year is just the first taste...
This lo-fi pop trio from California transform the day-to-day reality of frontwoman Bethany Cosentino, a 20-something slacker who loves weed, TV, and her cats, into catchy tunes that draw equal inspiration from 60s retro sounds and the post-grunge indie rock of the 90s. Their most recent album, Crazy For You, is an instant classic, on which Motown...
This group, consisting of a drummer and somewhere around a dozen horn players, combines traditional brass-driven music like Dixieland jazz and R&B funk with influences taken from all over--klezmer, calypso, heavy metal, punk rock, you name it. Their live sets combine creative original compositions with all kinds of unexpected cover tunes (Rush,...
“There is a terrible poetry in that sound at dead of night: but there was a day when the echo of that Bell awoke a world, slumbering in tyranny and crime!” --George Lippard, Ring, Grandfather, Ring! Perhaps it is this quote that inspired Charles Samuels to exclude church bells from violating his utterly ridiculous sound ordinance. Of course,...
Thursday 9/8: Weedeater (pictured above), Saviours, Bison BC, Fight Amp, Heathens @ Strange Matter 7pm. 18+ Thursday, 9/8 And The Wiremen (pictured above) with Paul Watson & Jonathan Vassar @ Globehopper 7pm. Friday, 9/9 Krallice, Inter Arma (pictured above) @ Strange Matter 6pm. Friday, 9/9 Boneanchor @ Gus' Bar & Grill 9pm. Friday, 9/9...
What do you do when you want to book a show that's bigger than any venue in the area can hold? What do you do when you want to book a show that's bigger than any venue in the area can hold? Well, if you're Steez Promo, you build yourself a one-of-a-kind pop up festival in the heart of Washington, DC! This year, in conjunction with Ultraworld...
