"I love when movies are dangerous. Are they anymore? I don’t think so." We consume noise. We’ve lost the signal. The transmission is overwhelmed by “content,” not art. That’s the point. To wear you down. To accept mediocrity. The celebration of film and music has been...
“Let’s go upstairs and make sure we can see the whole city while we chat.” That’s Tyler Williams, drummer for The Head And The Heart, speaking to fellow band member Jonathan Russell and myself in the lobby of The Quirk Hotel almost instinctively after the first music question was asked. This article was featured in...
Mixing moody vocals, creepy synths and street-drinking offers a recipe for success from RVA’s Doctor Collins in a new video produced by local artist Crud City. The video, “Static Kid,” features lead singer Ed Miller purchasing some Mad Dog and walking the streets of Richmond lamenting a relationship he had (or wants). ...
Local hip hop Mikelis bounces between RVA and the 757, but it looks like he got stuck in Henrico over the weekend where he got with @KultureGeorge. Local hip hop Mikelis bounces between RVA and the 757, but it looks like he got stuck in Henrico over the weekend where he got with @KultureGeorge. Armed with a drone and the snowy landscape, the...
Central Virginia has hiking trails and hills but not much else – and it has even less now that the roadside attraction Foamhenge has been taken down. But your chance to see it with a nice RVA bend is alive and well thanks to Dumb Waiter and Good Day RVA. Dumb Waiter has been gigging around RVA for the last few years. Their mix of metal,...
Shortly after the release of 2014’s False Light, people’s ears finally started perking up to Unsacred’s sound. Perhaps it was an article in another popular publication that awoke some, maybe a savage live performance for others. The point is, one of the many gems of Richmond’s contemporary music scene emerged anew two years ago, a lean, taut...
Moving here three years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. Sitting on a pillow, doing my best to see over the wheel of a 20’ moving truck I barreled down from Boston to Syracuse to Richmond, I arrived sleep-deprived and sore from carrying boxes to break into the apartment where my new landlord had forgotten to leave out keys. Like so many...
It might be the holidays, but there’s still plenty of great live music this week – check out the list below: FEATURED SHOW (top image) Sunday, January 1, 8 PM The Big Payback @ The Camel – $10 in advance/$12 day of show (order tickets HERE) OK, so I get that the big party night is New Years Eve, not New Years Day. People are just...
Some of RVA’s best party animals, Party Liberation Front, are set to host another fantastic New Years Eve event – Decemberween 11. Some of RVA’s best party animals, Party Liberation Front, are set to host another fantastic New Years Eve event – Decemberween 11. This in deed their 11th year of celebrating the new year in...
Just in time for the holidays, RVA favorites Sleepwalkers have dropped a new track to keep you rock’n on pine scent and good family times. Just in time for the holidays, RVA favorites Sleepwalkers have dropped a new track to keep you rock’n on pine scent and good family times. “We had some extra time in the studio yesterday...
