I am super excited for this week of shows, there are some shows that I will be singing along to every word and some where I will be carving new memories of unfamiliar groups. It is an ideal combo of pioneers who slashed their way through the music world, and the...
It’s entirely possible that one can separate The Allah-Las from their home state of California and the sweet, smirking spirituality summoned by their name. The question is: why would you want to? It’s entirely possible that one can separate The Allah-Las from their home state of California and the sweet, smirking spirituality summoned by their...
Few, if any, Richmond musicians have a legacy like that of Fun Size frontman James Menefee. As a promising young lad in a budding scene, his early ventures into music found immediate acclaim. Where the 90s-era Richmond music scene was concerned, Fun Size weren’t just any band. For many in the city, Fun Size was one of the greatest things to ever...
Dopapod - Redivider (self-released) Dopapod is a group that could conveniently be written-off as just another electro-hippie-jam-band. There are so many nowadays, and after all, they’re pretty much all the same, right? Well, perhaps a lot of them are similar, but let’s take a look at some facts: All of the members of Dopapod are Berklee College...
Nine:Fifteen - Electric Blanket (Candlewax) To provide context for this album, I made up a history involving a paranoid UPS third-shift worker, Prince with a stethoscope, a Clinton-era dorm dweller with Beck’s Odelay on repeat, a child giving a rapper a concussion while attempting a “Hong Kong Phooey” jumpkick, getting booted from KMD for...
FEATURE SHOW Friday, December 21 & Saturday, December 22 SKALIDAYS 2012 Day 1 (Friday, 21st) 6 p.m. The Pietasters, Murphy's Kids, Elby Brass, Herro Sugar @ Strange Matter - $15/All Ages SKALIDAYS 2012 Day 2 (Saturday, 22nd) 6 p.m. Murphy's Kids (pictured above by Mary Jacobs), Patent Pending, Tsunami Rising, Eastern Standard Time, Aquafuture @...
Prolific RVA record label Worthless Junk, who have previously released albums by such RVA music scene luminaries as Black Girls, No BS! Brass Band, The Trillions, White Laces, and quite a few others, are currently engaged in an ambitious effort to release vinyl LPs by three different RVA bands--Cheyenne, Shy Low, and Way Shape Or Form--at the...
While music journalists are busy preparing and publishing their Best-Of music lists for the year, bands are frantically releasing music before the final toll of 2012. This may complicate certain lists that had been prepared far in advance, but it only means good things while the glut of Christmas music is in the air. While music journalists are...
Down - Down IV: The Purple EP (Down Records/Independent Label Group) New Orleans metal supergroup (consisting of current and former members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, and Eyehategod) is back with their first (of four EPs to be released over the course of the next year or so) new recording since the stellar Over the Under in the...
For the past two years, I have spent the beginning of my year organizing a fundraiser for WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. It is entitled WRIR and The Commonwealth of Notions Presents. For the past two years, I have spent the beginning of my year organizing a fundraiser for WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. It is entitled WRIR and The Commonwealth...
