I know you're itching to get back outside as much as I am, but while the rain clears up we'll have to wait just a little while longer. We're almost in festival season where outside concerts seemingly never end, with sunshine and tunes galore. Until then, we've got an...
In this episode Russell Lacy made an appearance on the Rubber Room. Russell is the talented front man of Grease Trigger. He played some live cuts from his solo album as well as some acoustic renditions of a few Grease Trigger tunes. Russell can write songs till the cows come home, and Shaun was smitten. You will also learn that the one thing...
For some people, marriage is the beginning of a new life. For others, marriage only signals the end of something good. There are a few couples who have defied the expectation to become lame and boring upon nuptials. Those brave few, we salute you. For some people, marriage is the beginning of a new life. For others, marriage only signals the end...
Beastmilk – Use Your Deluge (Svart Records) People often start bands like Beastmilk with the intention of using sinister, apocalyptic imagery to shock or unsettle listeners. And while this approach has occasionally reached its intended goal, the act of trying to disturb people with morbid imagery is so over-done as to have been rendered cliched....
Here's some heavy, grungy rock n' roll from a Canadian duo that I just discovered this weekend. PS I Love You just released their second LP, Death Dreams, on Paper Bag Records, and now they've released the video for its lead single, "Princess Towers." Here's some heavy, grungy rock n' roll from a Canadian duo that I just discovered this weekend....
The Camp Barefoot 6 Music and Art Festival will be held again at Camp Hidden Meadows, in Bartow, WV on Thursday, August 23 – Sunday, August 26, 2012. This weekend-long event features some of the top rated acts in independent music, including Keller Williams, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Ghostland Observatory, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Zach...
Monday, 5/28 MEMORIAL DAY MASH featuring (in order of appearance) Meth Lab, Marrow, Nashgul, Koward, Backslider, Cough, Dragged into Sunlight, Occultist, Agents of Abhorrence, Ghoul @ Strange Matter 5pm. Monday, 5/28 MEMORIAL DAY MASH featuring (in order of appearance) Meth Lab, Marrow, Nashgul, Koward, Backslider, Cough, Dragged into Sunlight,...
In a lovely display of RVA-based artistic cooperation, Sparta and Ki:Theory, who are currently touring the West Coast together, have taken the Mondial Creative Labs along with them, in order to document the tour for a series of videos that will be posted on Alternative Press' website. The tour represents somewhat of a comeback for Sparta, the...
It’s no easy task to describe either the music or the general approach of Prince Rama. Resisting easy categorization, even our attempt to pigeonhole the music on their unforgettable, most recent album – Trust Now, their second release on the Paw-Tracks label – as “skin-pounding electronic new-age space gospel” falls immeasurably short and quite...
Former Champions Saturday, May 19 at The Otter House (Fredricksburg, VA) Finally, a band I had been seeking for many months arrived in my backyard. My numerous attempts to get to Cary Street Cafe to see these RVA legends in the making had routinely gone unfulfilled. But no worries. The Former Champions landed in Fredericksburg last Saturday night...
