It's an exciting time to be in Richmond; Spring is on the horizon, although it feels like it's been here for weeks already, and the days grow longer as we itch to get back outside. Yet, we must wait just a little while longer. I've got some music here to hold you over...
The third anniversary of Steez Promo's epic three-city party Dub Nation hits RVA this Friday night, featuring heavy hitters Vaski and Crizzly, plus a set from Richmond's own Mike Phear, and plenty more party music to keep things rolling all night long! The third anniversary of Steez Promo's epic three-city party Dub Nation hits RVA this Friday...
Thursday, 1/26 DJ set by Reuben Wu (Of Ladytron) (pictured above), along with DJ Ghost, M.A.S.S FX, Reinhold,DJ Phenom @ The Hat Factory 9pm. Thursday, 1/26 DJ set by Reuben Wu (Of Ladytron) (pictured above), along with DJ Ghost, M.A.S.S FX, Reinhold,DJ Phenom @ The Hat Factory 9pm. Thursday, 1/26 Marshall Crenshaw @ Ashland Coffee & Tea 7:30pm....
It goes down tonight! Charged Up Ent x Hip Hop VA x Sam Ash present Beat Battle VII. Bring your ears and five bones, or your beats on CD/jumpdrive with ten bones to The Camel at 9PM. The top producer takes home a one-hundred dollar gift certificate. The runner-up grabs fifty. Everyone who enters the battle takes home $10 to Sam Ash. It goes down...
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...
