When I was growing up in Martinsville, Virginia, I never thought of it as a particularly music-friendly city. Sure, there were open mic nights at local churches and I caught the Charlie Daniels Band at our local Nascar track (ed. note: Martinsville Speedway) on the...
Municipal Waste has a lot going on this month! Not only are they releasing their fifth full-length LP, The Fatal Feast, on Nuclear Blast Records next week, they'll also be releasing a limited-edition blue vinyl 7" single through Scion A/V, the automobile manufacturer that's also a record label. The A-side of that 7" features "Repossession," from...
One of my favorite events to hit Richmond in recent years has been the Silent Music Revival. In it’s essence, the Richmond music community discovers a way to celebrate its art as well as embracing the legacy of cinema’s past. This Friday will see a new incarnation of this idea when the VMFA hosts Silent Night. In a year that has shown great...
If the new Simian Mobile Disco track is a sample of how their new album, Unpatterns, will be; consider me sold. After a return-to-techno-form with their 2010 release of Delicacies, an album worthy of my praise, but a huge jump from their more club-oriented 2009 release, Temporary Pleasure, Simian Mobile Disco seem to be gearing up for a widely...
Here's something that's worth checking out--Richmond's pre-eminent doom metal band, Cough, have just curated a mixtape for the metal website CVLT Nation. The mix, which was created on the occasion of Cough's upcoming two-week tour with fellow herbally-inspired metal bands Weedeater and ASG, collects music from a whole bunch of bands that Cough...
The pollen is still kicking our asses, but allergies can't repress the artistic expression of Richmonders. Regardless of whether you are caught up in one side or the other of the Art 180 controversy or the Presidential election, we have to take time to maintain our creative needs. Thank goodness there is so much material being produced out of RVA...
Thursday, 4/5 YARN (pictured above), Farm Vegas, James Justin & Company @The Camel 9pm. Thursday, 4/5 YARN (pictured above), Farm Vegas, James Justin & Company @The Camel 9pm. Thursday, 4/5 No BS! Brass Band @ Balliceaux 10pm. Free. 21+ Thursday, 4/5 Nightmare Boyzzz, Navi (pictured above, photo by Becca Well) @ Cous Cous 11pm. Thursday, 4/5 The...
I randomly discovered this video in my email inbox last week, and as I'd never heard of St. Lucia before, I almost didn't watch it. I'm glad I decided to, though--since my first listen, "We Got It Wrong" has been one of my favorite new songs of 2012. I randomly discovered this video in my email inbox last week, and as I'd never heard of St. Lucia...
The Diamond Center, Young Adult Fiction, Ear Theory Thursday, March 15 at Casa Chapala, Austin TX I was on day four of a grueling South by Southwest schedule that seemed eager to consume me should even the smallest window of opportunity arise. If Austin, TX were the merry ol’ land of Oz, I had just crossed an incredibly dangerous field and...
Ides Of Gemini – Constantinople (Neurot Recordings) Over the course of the two short-form releases that Ides Of Gemini has offered since 2010, the band has showed a considerable level of consistency. Their mixture of eerie, harmonized vocals, heavy, detuned guitar buzz, and sparse, martial percussion had several sources tagging them “dream doom,”...
