Richmond has always been a hub for heavy music, and this past weekend, Dark Days, Bright Nights made its debut, casting a spotlight on the shadowed corners of our city's music scene. If you’re into metal, punk, hardcore, or anything in between, this festival had...
Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum) We’ve been running on the assumption that “Youth Lagoon” was just an arbitrary title Trevor Powers chose as a vessel for his sleepy-eyed musical endeavors. Could be we’re wrong. Maybe the Boise twentysomething has really discovered that fabled spring sought after by misguided conquistadores and...
The local emotive hardcore heads in Springtime are currently streaming a new song from their debut 7” EP, South Hill, set to come out on the Tiny Engines label sometime around the end of this Summer. The local emotive hardcore heads in Springtime are currently streaming a new song from their debut 7” EP, South Hill, set to come out on the Tiny...
Jae Dallas - Bare With Me (ThaLSD) Here's a tape from local emcee Jae Dallas, aka Dilly, who brings us his latest project Bare With Me. I’ve been hearing a lot about Jae and his crew--which is also a graphic design company--The Living Sickness Designs. This mixtape mixes lyrical metaphors with poetic rhythm and free spirited rhymes. Jae Dallas -...
The Merciless Book Of Metal Lists, by Howie Abrams & Sacha Jenkins (Abrams Image) The Merciless Book of Metal Lists will Slay you with useless metal info you never needed to know... but always kind of wondered about. This Overkill of a book is jam packed with 208 pages of metal knowledge, ranging from which album covers feature goats to metal...
Action Bronson, Teleport Team, Rich P, ThaLSDWednesday, June 19 at Kingdom Action Bronson's been one of my favorite new rappers over the last couple of years, so it was really exciting to see that he was coming to town. Kingdom has been bringing in a bunch of good rappers lately, actually, not just Bronsolino but Riff Raff and Lil B, among...
Sigur Ros – Kveikur (XL Recordings) The way it's been told so far, Kveikur is Sigur Ros' leaner, meaner take on what has become a familiar approach. The word “heavy” gets tossed around enough that one could be mistaken for thinking, based on these write-ups at least, that the band was trying to fill the void left by Jeff Hanneman. And,...
One of the nation's foremost bluegrass bands, The Infamous Stringdusters, will be headlining Friday Cheers at Brown’s Island Tomorrow. James Justin & Co. will be opening the show. This will be The Infamous Stringdusters’ second show in Richmond this year. One of the nation's foremost bluegrass bands, The Infamous Stringdusters, will be headlining...
Kylesa - Ultraviolet (Season Of Mist) Savannah-based powerhouse Kylesa released their sixth album to date this May. The response was a slew of mixed reviews and receptions from the metal community and the indie rock community at large, as this album certainly encompasses a lot more than straightforward metal. Kylesa - Ultraviolet (Season Of Mist)...
Starting this Thursday, some of Richmond and the region’s best bands are coming together for four nights of punk-fueled charity in support of Charlotte, North Carolina’s garage rock destroyers Paint Fumes. In February Paint Fumes’ lead singer and guitarist, Elijah Von Cramon, was struck by a car while crossing the street, only weeks before...
