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Space Jazz Pours From Michal Menerts Fingers

One of the biggest names in electronic music and a founding member of the Pretty Lights Label, Michal Menert, is set to release a new studio album entitled “Space Jazz” in early November. One of the biggest names in electronic music and a founding member of the Pretty...

DAILY RECORD: Outer Gods

Outer Gods – Light Dims Eternal (Domestic Genocide Records) Among the most immediately noticeable facets of Outer Gods' first full-length (released after a quick succession of demos that've appeared over the past year or so) is that many of the features that render it...

One Way Richmond’s Must-See Show Previews 9/25-10/1

FEATURE SHOW Saturday, September 28, 10 p.m. Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Nervous Ticks, The Milkstains, Mutwawa @ Strange Matter - $10/18+ Why people don’t go see Quintron is a mystery to me. I guess folks enjoy living in their miserable circumstances too much. FEATURE...

Daily Record: Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady

Janelle Monae (born Janelle Monae Robinson), 27, is more than just a singer, she's a storyteller, a gifted musician, a songwriter and an artist. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Monae would often build alternative realities for herself in which she would sing or perform...

Why Cold Cave’s Love for Richmond Is More Than Just Nostalgia

Cold Cave is the pseudonym of LA and NYC based musician Wesley Eisold. The project, in existence since 2007, has 2 full albums under its belt - Love Comes Close and Cherish The Light Years. The sound bounces between heavy-new wave synth and low-bit dance beats. With...

SHOW REVIEW: Pepper

Pepper, Grieves, RDGLDGRN September 19 at The National “Do not be afraid of the Pepper! The people want the Pepper.” --Dana Carvey, Saturday Night Live On September 19, 2013, the fans in Richmond did indeed want the Pepper, and these Pepper boys, from Kona, Hawaii via...

Take Your Spoilers Like A Man: An Interview With Walk The Moon

Walk The Moon is just one of those bands that you just can't help but fall in love with. Whether you're an ardent music fan or a casual radio listener, you're going to learn every last note and lyric of every last song quicker than you'd care to admit when you start...

Petition to get Gwar to Play the Super Bowl hits 29,000 Signatures

A Change.org petition to get Gwar to be the halftime entertainment at the 2015 Super Bowl has almost hit 30K signatures. A Change.org petition to get Gwar to be the halftime entertainment at the 2015 Super Bowl has almost hit 30K signatures. The petition, started by...

DAILY RECORD: The Trash Company

The Trash Company - The Earle Hotel Tapes (Steady Sounds/PPU) Steady Sounds have made a good name for themselves over the past few years as one of the newer and more noteworthy record shops in town. With their focus on vinyl from all eras, they've made sure that Richmond collectors can find everything from brand new releases to rare vintage...

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DAILY RECORD: The Trash Company

The Trash Company - The Earle Hotel Tapes (Steady Sounds/PPU) Steady Sounds have made a good name for themselves over the past few years as one of the newer and more noteworthy record shops in town. With their focus on vinyl from all eras, they've made sure that Richmond collectors can find everything from brand new releases to rare vintage...

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DAILY RECORD: The Trash Company

The Trash Company - The Earle Hotel Tapes (Steady Sounds/PPU) Steady Sounds have made a good name for themselves over the past few years as one of the newer and more noteworthy record shops in town. With their focus on vinyl from all eras, they've made sure that Richmond collectors can find everything from brand new releases to rare vintage...

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SHOW REVIEW: Toro Y Moi

Toro Y Moi, Wild Belle, Dog Bite Saturday, February 9 at The National Recently, I’ve been writing about and frequenting dance parties around Richmond, but I can only dance so much before my soles crumble off and my soul crumbles away. So last Saturday, I opted to go watch some live music at the National, just to keep it chill. I didn’t know that...

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SHOW REVIEW: Toro Y Moi

Toro Y Moi, Wild Belle, Dog Bite Saturday, February 9 at The National Recently, I’ve been writing about and frequenting dance parties around Richmond, but I can only dance so much before my soles crumble off and my soul crumbles away. So last Saturday, I opted to go watch some live music at the National, just to keep it chill. I didn’t know that...

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SHOW REVIEW: Toro Y Moi

Toro Y Moi, Wild Belle, Dog Bite Saturday, February 9 at The National Recently, I’ve been writing about and frequenting dance parties around Richmond, but I can only dance so much before my soles crumble off and my soul crumbles away. So last Saturday, I opted to go watch some live music at the National, just to keep it chill. I didn’t know that...

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DAILY RECORD: Grouper

Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat (Kranky Records) Anybody with a history of buying music could rightly be wary of the phenomenon of long-unreleased companion recordings that might see the light of day subsequent to the success of some artist's better-loved work. Though they're usually posited as some sort of buried treasure, they're more...

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The Opposite Of Excess: An Interview With Pallbearer

It's rare to encounter a heavy band that's garnered the sort of wide-ranging praise that Pallbearer has. With a sound that blends crushing, downtuned dirge with ethereal, psychedelic elements and melodic sense matched by few in their genre, the Arkansas doom quartet's 2012 debut album, Sorrow And Extinction, has garnered favorable attention not...

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