Virginia has, in recent years, begun supporting a variety of incentive programs and tax breaks for creative individuals and endeavors inside the Commonwealth. Notably, up to this point, are the film incentives with guidelines established by The Virginia Department of...
Reuben Wu of Liverpool electronic music superstars Ladytron is currently touring America, bringing the energy of his famed Liverpool club night, EVOL, and bar, Korova, to eager audiences on this side of the pond. Reuben Wu of Liverpool electronic music superstars Ladytron is currently touring America, bringing the energy of his famed Liverpool...
It seems like a lot of musicians are afforded an undue amount of credit if they attempt anything outside of the expectations that the public might have of them. One acting gig, art exhibit, or book of shitty poetry and all of a sudden they're a Renaissance (wo)man. But then there are those who aren't constrained by a single medium, those equally...
Introduction Audio Dancers is a name that emerged from a misheard lyric. On a bizarrely warm December afternoon, I had the great opportunity to preview Nelly Kate’s new record, Ish Ish. On the second side of her LP, Kate sings “all you dancers.” I heard "audio dancers," and it all started from there. The name resonates to me as a description of...
I'm probably showing my age due to the fact that I even remember these guys, but Therapy? were a band from Northern Ireland who got some attention in the post-Nirvana major label feeding frenzy circa the early 90s by straddling the line between the heavy end of the grunge scene and the stripped down metal of bands like Helmet. I had early albums...
Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons (Secret Seven) Country music has been guilty of a lot of things – schmaltz, jingoism, nostalgia for some halcyon America that never was – but one thing it's unfairly been nailed to the wall for has been the idea that it's overly depressing or melodramatic. Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons (Secret Seven) Country music has been...
These days a lot of the best hip-hop stuff that drops in any given year isn't even on a label--it's a free mixtape that gets uploaded to bandcamp or datpiff that catches ears slowly and gets around by getting hyped on blogs and facebook pages. But then after a few months you can't talk to anybody, even dudes you didn't know had a facebook...
Monday, 1/23 Future Islands (pictured above), Canary Oh Canary, Ed Schraders Music Beat @ The Camel 8pm. Monday, 1/23 Future Islands (pictured above), Canary Oh Canary, Ed Schraders Music Beat @ The Camel 8pm. Monday, 1/23 Lazy Magnet, Noise Nomads, Mutwawa, Flesh Control (photo by Tony Lynch), Twilight Memories of the Three Suns @ Strange Matter...
Future Islands - On The Water (Thrill Jockey) The latest from this Baltimore trio has a dark, stately feel that does an excellent job of evoking nights spent on the sea, and long lonely periods away from loved ones. They do this through instrumentation that is equally reminiscent of turn-of-the-80s David Bowie and late-80s Leonard Cohen. Future...
Besides being pissed off at Congress for SOPA and PIPA with everyone else who suddenly seems to care about the bills, I guess you could say it was a bit of a slow week in regards to EDM news. Maybe it’s just because the last few weeks have spoiled us, who knows. Regardless, new hot shit is constantly getting dropped for us. Besides being pissed...