Let’s be honest: most local summer music guides read like they were written by someone who’s never been to a show. A few safe headliners. Maybe a festival or two. So we made our own and put it all in one place for easy reference. This is RVA Magazine’s...
Local funk-king Kelli Strawbridge is back with a new synthy single and its bound to get your feet moving as the weather gets warmer. Strawbridge said he recorded "Genuine Animal" last year in his home studio and it was really more of a vehicle for a new vocal processor he'd just purchased. "It had autotune on it [and] it's ridiculous how much fun...
Local funk-king Kelli Strawbridge is back with a new synthy single and its bound to get your feet moving as the weather gets warmer. Strawbridge said he recorded "Genuine Animal" last year in his home studio and it was really more of a vehicle for a new vocal processor he'd just purchased. "It had autotune on it [and] it's ridiculous how much fun...
In his forthcoming album, The Importance of Self Belief, Richmond rap/jazz musician McKinley Dixon broadens the scope of the challenging subject matter and sentimental dialogue indicative of his prior album, Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?. With an ensemble of gifted jazz musicians and an arsenal of talented collaborators, Dixon brings new...
Imagine a summer evening in Richmond spent on a patio. Beer bottles flood the tables as ashtrays are slowly beginning to fill. Conversations are asunder and the feeling in the air is intoxicating. Slowly, the hordes of denizens begin to make their way towards the night's entertainment. A remarkable collective of musicians that refer to themselves...
Well known and ever-evolving RVA beatmaker DJ Harrison can always be counted on to release material that's unique to make us get out of our comfort zone. On Friday, the man behind Jellowstone Records will release Slyish, a nine-track cassette of fuzzy lo-fi sounds and vocals dedicated to the funk man himself, Sly Stone. With it's hazy, record-on...
Back before it got cold, I drove over to the Jellowstone Records house to interview Marcus Tenney and producer DJ Harrison of Tennison, who had recently released Crack Music on their bandcamp and a cd which RVA Magazine deemed as “essential listening” in the Winter 2015 issue. I caught their act at The Broadberry (opening for Detroit’s own Slum...
\m/ Prepare yourselves, metal warriors! \m/ We gather here today to witness a showdown of epic proportions, where the gods of metal shall determine who possesses the mightiest shred! We wish we had a scientific "SHRED-O-METER" that could accurately gauge the power, speed, and precision of these riff masters, but alas, such a device remains a...
Duke Ellington once described jazz as, “...a trunk of soul with limbs reaching in every direction.” Metaphorically, there is no better way of describing a music that lives, grows, breathes, absorbs, entwines, climbs, bebops, rocks, pops, and sighs, as jazz does. It stretches itself across the world but never thin. It bounds from smoky clubs and...
