This was an overwhelming week of Sound Check as there is just so much amazing music in Richmond this week. Picking which shows to cover was like picking which hand to eat soup with. The weather is beautiful, shows are plentiful, life is good and I want to get out...
Integrity – Suicide Black Snake (a389/Magic Bullet Records) Anybody who's followed Integrity over the course of their quarter-century run should be less surprised by the variations the band has undertaken than by the extent to which they've been able to adhere to a single core sound despite a revolving door lineup. There are variations between...
With Slapdash’s third annual presentation of Epic Fest starting tomorrow and continuing through Saturday, we’ve compiled a small, eclectic list of the artist you should definitely try to catch this week. From R&B to classic hip hop to horrorcore, here’s our list of people you should not miss on each night of the four day, five stage fest....
Ladies and gentlemen, the best psychedelic bands of both the northern and southern hemispheres have combined forces for one amazing American tour--and if you're really lucky, you can see it for free! The Flaming Lips will be joining Tame Impala for a week of East Coast dates this fall, and one of those dates will be Friday, October 4 at...
It’s Monday morning, and the classroom is filled with the early morning yawns of Sabot At Stony Point School's eighth grade students. As Black Liquid, or Mr. Liquid, as the students call him, enters into the classroom, he addresses most of his students by the nicknames with which they have knighted themselves. It’s Monday morning, and the...
It won’t be a release show per se, but there will be plenty of fanfare when NYMPH plays at Strange Matter on Wednesday, June 26. The band is releasing a new full-length album, New Millennium Prayer, one day earlier, and if the recording is any indication, I’d expect they’ll be celebrating on Wednesday by letting loose a wildly colorful,...
Den Sorte Skole – Lektion III (self-released) It's been some time since the idea of an artist sampling another's work could be considered shocking or transgressive, either in the positive sense of an artful reappropriation of extant work (Negativland, DJ Shadow) or in the inverse, that of popular musicians swiping large chunks of older material...
Ladies and gentlemen, it's back--and bigger than ever! Next week brings the arrival of Epic Fest 2013--Slapdash Entertainment's third annual presentation of the best in local and regional hip hop. If you thought they went big last year when they took over Kingdom for an entire weekend, wait until you see what they've got in store for you this...
LJ MTX is an up-and-coming electro-house DJ from the Washington DC area who has been increasing his profile in a big way lately. With tracks climbing the Beatport charts and a recent tour of Australia taking him all the way around the world, the co-owner of Phethouse Recordings is working on becoming a household name. LJ MTX is an up-and-coming...
Cut The Architect's Hand – Remove the Head, Destroy the Stairs (Aunt Mary Records) Cut The Architect’s Hand is a band that defies any sort of pigeonholing other than some sort of vague metal reference. But even that could be confusing, like when you tell a co-worker you like metal and they respond with something that might pass for metal in a...
