With DJs and delectable drinks, Fanboy is bringing San Francisco vibes to Richmond Brandon Pearson isn’t afraid to experiment. After his Laotian restaurant, Temple, failed to take off at 2713 W Broad Street, he converted the concept into Sabai Jai — a casual...
FEATURE SHOW Tuesday, April 16, 10 p.m. Thelma & the Sleaze, Stiff Licks, The Milkstains, Navi @ The Nile - $5/21+ Well, once again the Nile is home to the big guns. Describing Nashville’s Thelma & the Sleaze is like describing that time mom flipped the kitchen table over on your sister. FEATURE SHOW Tuesday, April 16, 10 p.m. Thelma & the...
Fans of great music and sustainable, local cuisine have equal reasons to rejoice about the imminent return of the Sweetlife Music & Food Festival. Presented by Sweetgreen, a natural food restaurant based in DC with 16 locations in the DMV areal, the fourth annual Sweetlife Festival will take place on Saturday, May 11, at Merriweather Post...
Highness is an up-and-coming post-hardcore quintet whose members are split between Richmond and Fredericksburg [and Brooklyn! Oops-ed]. The first thing about them that anyone is going to mention is their epic pedigree, so let's get that out of the way right now: Highness is an up-and-coming post-hardcore quintet whose members are split between...
In a time when metal is characterized by apocalyptic doom and crust, avant-garde black metal, and technically layered death metal, a band like Humungus, who don’t take themselves too seriously and aren’t afraid if others don’t either, is truly a rare thing to come across. It’s easy to write them off at first glance as another throwback-thrash...
Hip hop's best-kept secret will be coming to the VA area this week! Immortal Technique, the Peruvian-American rapper with a reputation for uncompromisingly political lyrics, will be appearing at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville this Thursday, and hip hop fans would be foolish to miss him. Hip hop's best-kept secret will be coming to the...
Portal – Vexovoid (Profound Lore Records) There are artists whose aesthetic decisions make certain terminology difficult to resist when describing their music. The output of Australian metal band Portal, for instance, can consistently be seen as nightmarish, and not only for the sinister quality of the music. Portal – Vexovoid (Profound Lore...
Robb Bank$ is a young emcee from South Florida who got his start the way a lot of young artists are doing today--through social media. Originally calling himself "Tumblr God," the blogging/social networking became a launching pad for Bank$'s music the way it has for other artists who've gotten big outside of the standard music industry in recent...
Louie P - A Dollar And A Dream (Datpiff) So I checked my email one day and came across an email from an emcee named Louie P. I thought he was from RVA until I did my research on him and learned that he is actually from Rockland, New York--but that's OK. We don’t just talk RVA here, we talk Hip Hop nationally. I took a listen and instantly became...
It's the first weekend in April, and despite the warm days and sunny skies ahead, it looks like we're in for a weekend of extreme brutality, between the crushing dubstep that is Excision on Friday, a smaller metal show at Wonderland on Saturday, and the black metal assault that is Absu on Sunday. It's the first weekend in April, and despite the...
