Richmond gets it. More than any other city in Virginia. That’s why we created Weekend Frequency, a reader-curated playlist built for the city, by the city. Each week, a different voice from Richmond’s creative community shares the sounds that move them, shaping...
We spent an alternately chilly/beautiful/drunk weekend in Harrisonburg earlier this month and saw some noteworthy jams as part of MACROCK 2017. The annual festival that specializes in lesser-know but still noteworthy acts doubled down on the "lesser known" side which gave tons of breathing room for expectations. Sure enough, we found a number of...
Musicians need reassurance too, even those as dazzling, empowering, and forceful as New York duo Diet Cig. You can have all the buzz in the world and a fanbase that grows by the hour, but the confidence has to be there no matter how you get it. Sometimes, it comes from just a pep talk. "I had to kind of remind myself that I'm good at this,"...
Whenever a musician steps outside of his/her comfort zone and away from their regular gig to pursue another project it’s always exciting to hear what they come up with. For local musician Steven Boone, fans will get to hear what he’s been working hard on the last few years on Friday when he drops his debut solo album, SoulLow. Boone has been...
The art of Kevin Randolph Johnson isn’t made for art elitists - nor is it made for low brow, fat-walleted collectors. But sure enough anyone with a set of eyes is bound to get lost in his highly detailed creations currently on view (and sale) at Belly Timber Tavern. Johnsons’s entry, or reentry, into art started only three years ago, but his...
A Gogol Bordello show is an all-consuming force. The air is charged; a nearly violent happiness (ala Bjork) travels out from the stage and infects the crowd. It is as joyous and wild as a megachurch taken over by a gang of tongue-and-cheek pirates, and this past weekend’s show at The Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia was no exception....
The art of Kevin Randolph Johnson isn’t made for art elitists - nor is it made for low brow, fat-walleted collectors. But sure enough anyone with a set of eyes is bound to get lost in his highly detailed creations currently on view (and sale) at Belly Timber Tavern. Johnsons’s entry, or reentry, into art started only three years ago, but his...
Whenever a musician steps outside of his/her comfort zone and away from their regular gig to pursue another project it’s always exciting to hear what they come up with. For local musician Steven Boone, fans will get to hear what he’s been working hard on the last few years on Friday when he drops his debut solo album, SoulLow. Boone has been...
Get ready to bob your head and break ya neck because hip hop star Busta Rhymes will make his way to Richmond this summer. From entertaining us in his early days by screaming "Woo Hah!!" to getting us hype with tracks like "Dangerous" and "Touch It" and "Break Ya Neck" his unique videos and stage presence always kept me bumping his jams from my...
After playing two new, comically nihilistic “state of the union” songs in the middle of their set, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy joked. “It’s usually closer to the end of our show that the realization we’re all going to die sets in.” However, the mood at the National’s Sunday night was anything but grim, as the sold-out crowd hung onto every...
