There are a lot of phenomenal bands coming in from out of town this week, and they're all staggered if you wanna try to catch them all. With a enormous spread from Umphrey's McGee coming to jam at The National for hours on end Sunday Night, to Moon Hooch playing their...
That's right folks, it's back! The best hip-hop holiday party of last year returns for a seasonally appropriate encore, and Slapdash have crammed even more amazing local hip-hop talent onto the bill this year, for an all-out extravaganza that'll be rolling nonstop from early in the evening until closing time. In addition to the music that'll be...
It wouldn’t be a Ghost of Pop if Prabir Mehta didn’t showcase one of his many outfits. For the second time, he'll be challenging the audience with a fusion of classical and rock music in The Goldrush. The band shares members with the Richmond Symphony, Long Arms, and some band called The Druthers. When The Goldrush takes their sound to the...
Thursday, 12/8 Dirty Nitrous (pictured above), Gangsta Fun, JMungz, Popsh!t, Retch @ Canal Club 8pm. Thursday, 12/8 The Recliners (photo from churchhillphoto.com) @ Tobacco Company 7:30pm. Thursday, 12/8 PBR (pictured above), Bucket @ The Republic 8pm. Free. Thursday, 12/8 PLF Music Night featuring PLF DJs and collaborators: Jordan (Videos),...
While Ghost of Pop tends to focus on certain pop tropes, they don’t let approach get in the way of who is invited. By involving the likes of J Seger, David Shultz and the Skyline, Mermaid Skeletons and even Palominos over the years, the showcase has been able to spend a part of the night focusing on folk’s answer to the pop conundrum. This year,...
Formed by a group of VCU students two years ago in a dorm room, Young Adult Fiction have grown into one of the better indie rock bands that the Richmond scene has to offer. Their incorporation of a modern pop sensibility into a sound that harks back to the great guitar-driven indie rock bands of the 90s, such as Built To Spill, Archers Of Loaf,...
Botanist – I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From The Dead (tUMULt Records) Conventional wisdom dictates that there is really no creative endeavor that one can undertake which might be seen as genuinely new. Reviewing music for any amount of time generally confirms this, as even artists who seem to possess some radical angle with which they approach...
The wonderful thing about the Ghost of Pop is that it offers the ability for people to check in on what some of their favorite local musicians have been up to. My Old Ways is the latest from Trey Cutrell of Palominos and Curtis Patton of David Shultz and the Skyline,and you can learn all about it on December 10th. They have been slowing...
On paper, Kid is Qual is a daunting band to explain. Two bassists and a drummer creating frenzied, glorious pop music? Sounds kind of crazy--which I think is really what they aim to accomplish: infiltrating pop music with a new sense of style that can only really display itself in a live environment. When Jonathan Sullivan steps up to a...
Obsessor – Sick Salvation (Tankcrimes Records) It seems that practitioners of heavier music often fall victim to a sort of formalism, whether adopting too snugly to the constraints of a particular genre or deluding themselves into the belief that they exercise some sort of iconoclasm because they figured out how to mix two or three different...
