Last night, Brown’s Island in Richmond played host to a highly anticipated show featuring the Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, with the New York-based band Geese as the opener. We wrote about this show HERE. Despite a few weather-related delays,...
Iceage, Lower, Brief Lives, Springtime Tuesday June 11 at Strange Matter Iceage must love Richmond. Copenhagen, Denmark's youthful purveyors of spooky, gothic-tinged hardcore have played here three times in the past two years, making this show less of an event in the eyes of some than it might otherwise be. However, this was their first time back...
Burial – Renegade (Hardware Records) Two things to consider with the new Burial album. First, anybody approaching Renegade expecting the UK electronic producer should just keep on moving, as this one – the German metal-punk band – couldn't really resemble the former any less (and in fact predated the former by a few years. Given that the...
A couple of years ago, RJD2 dropped into the Canal Club to rock the place with a DJ set that blew the place away. At a time when a lot of DJs are content to stand behind a laptop pressing buttons, RJD2 kept the party rocking in highly energetic fashion by working four turntables at once, flipping from crossfaders to stacks of LPs and never...
Since 2004, south Florida troublemaker Rat Bastard has been inviting noise acts, experiment freaks and guitar butchers from all over America to come to Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, where he books three days of shows at Churchill's Pub, dubbed the International Noise Conference. Since 2004, south Florida troublemaker Rat Bastard has been...
Kanye West - Yeezus (Roc-A-Fella) No artist has been as ubiquitous or as culturally pervasive in the last decade as Kanye West. Whether he’s riling the ire of teen pop stars or the president, Mr. West continually pushes the boundaries of pop culture with his unique ability to crystallize the zeitgeist of the moment in maximalist statement after...
Are you picking up on the hype for the new Kanye West album? If you're aware of pop culture enough to be reading this website, we don't know how you could miss it. And if you haven't missed it, then surely you've heard about the projections of Kanye's face, accompanied by public playbacks of selections from his new album, Yeezus, which have been...
On Tuesday, June 18, Tigers Jaw will be playing their last Virginia show ever at The Camel. Back in March, the emo/indie rock band from Scranton, Pennsylvania announced that three of its members were quitting the band. However, instead of spontaneously disappearing from the scene, the remaining band members are opting to give fans a proper...
Arsis - Unwelcome (Nuclear Blast) The fifth album from Virginia Beach metalheads Arsis shows the quartet in top form. Recent lineup shakeups might be a concern for some bands, but this has always been singer/guitarist James Malone's show, and he's got things under control, dishing out another helping of the group's stock in trade--excellent...
DJ Ragz knows his stuff. An accomplished turntablist with over 20 years of experience scratching and making beats, Ragz has represented underground hip hop on both coasts, and continues to do so at full force. DJ Ragz knows his stuff. An accomplished turntablist with over 20 years of experience scratching and making beats, Ragz has represented...
