Welcome to the month of May, and with it, the start of festival season in earnest around these parts. Friday Cheers kicks off this weekend with Bella White and Colby T. Helms & The Virginia Creepers opening for a wonderful evening as country tunes fill the air...
Dope Body - Natural History (Drag City) Dope Body are a four-piece group from Baltimore who present themselves at first as the kind of repetitively pounding, unrelentingly brutal postpunk band that would win acclaim from people who wish the Jesus Lizard were less melodic, or think that Swans went soft after Holy Money, or whatever. Dope Body is...
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...
