Tiny Porch Neighborhood Concert Series, a grassroots music showcase in Richmond’s Woodland Heights, is looking for musicians to fill its 2025 season. Organizers recently reached out to us after seeing the range of artists featured in our Richmond Music of Right...
Young Fathers have been around for a while now but last year they made a huge breakthrough at the 2014 Mercury Prize awards for album of the year for De Young Fathers have been around for a while now but last year they made a huge breakthrough at the 2014 Mercury Prize awards for album of the year for Dead; beating out artists like FKA Twigs and...
While Venomspitter have kept a relatively low profile around the RVA scene in the year or so since they got started, this band has clearly been generating a buzz online. We know this because, when they uploaded their new self-titled EP onto Bandcamp last week, they ran out of free downloads in two days. While Venomspitter have kept a relatively...
After more than ten years of global touring, seven solo albums on labels such as Pretty Lights Music, Old Tacoma Records, Hefty, 1320, and Mush, Eliot Lipp's status as an electronic music pioneer is known to scene experts and weekend warriors alike. After more than ten years of global touring, seven solo albums on labels such as Pretty Lights...
Last night I watched a man easily above 200 lbs crowd surf at the Broadberry. Last night I watched a man easily above 200 lbs crowd surf at the Broadberry. It's this kind of energy, and ability to wind up a crowd, that Nashville, TN's Diarrhea Planet is known for. Since 2009, Diarrhea Planet has been raising eye brows with their band's name, and...
If you're keeping up on the world of jazz, funk, and R&B these days, you're probably aware of Snarky Puppy. This Texas-by-way-of-Brooklyn musical collective has been making waves with its instrumental fusion sound for nearly a decade now, culminating in their winning 2014's Best R&B Performance Grammy. Now Snarky Puppy keyboardist Cory Henry has...
Ben FM, a RVA native since 1986, first cut his hip-hop chops on stage with Afrika Bambaataa and Jazzy Joyce came to the Flood Zone. Ben FM, a RVA native since 1986, first cut his hip-hop chops on stage with Afrika Bambaataa and Jazzy Joyce came to the Flood Zone. They asked if anyone in the crowd knew how to rap, and he raised his hands. "She...
If you've wondered what RVA thrashaholic and metal vocalist extraordinaire Andy Horn has been up to since making his exit from Cannabis Corpse a couple years ago, well, wonder no more! Battlemaster, the band that originally brought Horn to the RVA metal scene's attention, has returned, sneaking a new album onto Bandcamp while their foes were...
Negative Gemini, the solo project of electronic musician Lindsey French, is based in Queens NY these days, but everyone who has been paying attention for a while is sure to remember the project's roots here in RVA. Therefore, when Negative Gemini comes out with an EP as excellent as their brand new release, Real Virtual Unison, we have to let all...
FEATURE SHOW Saturday, April 11, 5 PM The Nervous Ticks (photo by Good Vendetta Photography), Nelly Kate, Dave Watkins, Gull @ Hardywood - Free! The Nervous Ticks X Hardywood: an intriguing combination! FEATURE SHOW Saturday, April 11, 5 PM The Nervous Ticks (photo by Good Vendetta Photography), Nelly Kate, Dave Watkins, Gull @ Hardywood - Free!...
