Richmond is feeling like a garage this week. It’s young and clean tuff but not mean. Lean in to it, let loose, get hip, don’t be obtuse. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at Griffin@rvamag.com. The Camel | Tuesday,...
Here we go again folks! In just a couple of weeks the good people from DC to BC bring you their second annual Trillectro Music Festival. Here we go again folks! In just a couple of weeks the good people from DC to BC bring you their second annual Trillectro Music Festival. Combining Hip-Hop and EDM acts to bring you a day filled with good music,...
There is a plethora of weird stuff going on this weekend for Richmonders to enjoy. Organ Donor are returning to their home stomping grounds, and will be playing with some other crazy, thrashy acts over at Strange Matter, and the same night, Gallery 5 is hosting a Disney-themed Burlesque performance. On top of that, Speedy Ortiz is stopping off...
When you read the band name “Jimmy Eat World,” what comes to mind? When you read the band name “Jimmy Eat World,” what comes to mind? Did you just blurt out “it just takes some time…” from “The Middle” in a perfect cadence like an awkward musical reflex? Or did you start head-banging your way through “Sweetness” which undoubtedly got you some...
FEATURE SHOW Sound City Bands & Brews, Saturday/Sunday, August 10&11 Part I: Saturday, August 10, 3:30 p.m. Sound City Bands & Brews featuring The Breeders, EL VEZ, Leagues, Benjamin Shepherd, The James Badfellows @ Historic Tredegar - $35/All Ages. The seminal 90s band, the Breeders, are back, and why not make historical Tredegar, which in a way...
Don't panic--Strange Matter will not be dumping a year's supply of your own feces onto your head on Thursday. No, the fourth Year Of Shit Fest will merely bring you a jam-packed lineup of doom, sludge, crust, and other varieties of dark, heavy, brutal metal. If anything, it's an eight-hour antidote to the crappy 2013 you've had so far. And if...
Lets start slow, it's a gross and rainy day out. Check out this chillwave mix of "Call Me Maybe:" Lets start slow, it's a gross and rainy day out. Check out this chillwave mix of "Call Me Maybe:" Chillwave mixes can be fairly hit and miss - criticism usually comes down to "this sounds like they put this pop-song through an adult-contemporary...
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (Carpark) I think I might have finally figured out what’s missing from too many modern hit indie records that makes them seem, in some ways, transient. Ease and beauty and self-confidence abound, and we’ve got plenty of well-tempered soundscapes and reverby one-note guitars. No, it’s none of these. In fact, it’s hardly...
Richmond/Seattle based indie-folk band The Head and The Heart released their new single, "Shake," today, and it's already received over 8,000 listens. Have a listen in the widget below: The Head and The Heart have been under the radar for the last few years. After the wild success of a home-burned CD-R release, indie-lable Sub Pop scooped them up...
Weasel Walter has been playing extreme takes on American jazz, no wave punk and metal since the early 90s. His original claim to fame was his prolific, infamous, self-described "brutal prog" ensemble The Flying Luttenbachers, and their dark no wave counterpart Lake Of Dracula. Weasel Walter has been playing extreme takes on American jazz, no wave...
