COMMUNITY

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...

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...

“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...

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...

These pop-savvy veterans of the Richmond indie scene have done time in such groups as Prabir And The Substitutes and The Awesome Few, and that experience shows through in their complex, brainy, but most importantly catchy power-pop tunes. Think The Strokes or the...

This young Richmond band has been together for a relatively short amount of time, but are creating quite a buzz with their off-kilter brand of soul-infused indie rock. The sunny, cheerful-sounding music calls to mind recent popular indie groups, such as Vampire...

It’s appropriate, perhaps, that it’s been raining all week in Richmond. One of our most forward thinking, locally oriented establishments has been forced to close it’s doors. I am writing, of course, about Sprout. It’s hard to find a single negative review of Sprout...