Hello, reader! This week, I spoke with local R&B singer, producer, and performer Jerel Crockett. The local talent has been a mainstay in the Richmond scene, performing with numerous groups, collaborating in the studio, and branching out as a solo artist. He...
Old Crow Medicine Show are from Nashville, but their fusion of old-time country, bluegrass, and folk sounds is far from the typical sound coming out of Music City. Their newest album, Remedy, promises more folk twang and foot-stomping melodies than ever before. Ahead of their visit to Maymont this Sunday, August 17th, the humble and talented...
Sleaze - Summer Fresh XE (BlocSonic) All jokes aside, Sleaze is one of my heroes--one of the artists in this city who has inspired me and forced me to grow. His most recent project, Heavenly Devilish, is some of the best music to come out of this city, and if you haven't heard it you are seriously missing out. Sleaze - Summer Fresh XE (BlocSonic)...
Local math-rockers Fight Cloud, and really the entire Subterranea Collective, have had quite a productive 2014 so far. The four volumes of Subterranea's Between The Two digital series of splits released in May, one of which featured Fight Cloud (see Bandcamp for details), were quite impressive, and this loose-knit crew of indie rockers show no...
There were few bands last decade that generated as much buzz as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah did with their debut record--so few that you could probably count them on one hand. That buzz was definitely deserved, as their self-titled record still holds up as one of the landmark albums for a crucial time in music history. There were few bands last...
FEATURE SHOW Saturday, August 16, 6 PM Eternal Summers, The Seeers, Mas Y Mas @ Strange Matter - $6 Pay attention, people, because this is important. Roanoke's Eternal Summers, whom we have been telling you about for a couple of years now, recently released their third album. The Drop Beneath hasn't gotten a ton of hype (though Pitchfork came...
From the depths of hell—or, more accurately, Richmond’s most infamous water park—the GWARMY rose once again to take over Hadad’s Lake. This wasn’t just any summer gathering; this was GWAR-B-Q 2014, a festival of metal, mayhem, and madness, bigger and more chaotic than ever before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7iwdxWgn74 A...
Mike Taylor is an artist. He doesn't like to be labeled as part of the electronic or hip-hop or soul, or any other scene. Mike Taylor is an artist. He doesn't like to be labeled as part of the electronic or hip-hop or soul, or any other scene. Taylor's sound is eclectic and influenced by the sounds he knows best and mean the most to him. Growing...
RVA's been enjoying the hybrid surf/garage/grunge/punk sounds of wild-eyed local trio The Milkstains for quite a while now--the band actually celebrated their 10th anniversary earlier this year. However, local diehard fans (of which the band has quite a few) have had to content themselves with semi-frequent live performances and the occasional,...
Goldin - VHS MUSIC (Datpiff) I'm a bit torn on this one. I like the concept: take movies we used to watch on VHS, tell a story with them and pay tribute to how awesome that experience was, turn it all into records. Goldin - VHS MUSIC (Datpiff) I'm a bit torn on this one. I like the concept: take movies we used to watch on VHS, tell a story with...
