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...
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...
Monday, 12/5 The Inflatables @ The Camel 8pm. Free. 18+ Monday, 12/5 Mutilation Rites (pictured above), War Graves, Ravn @ Strange Matter 10pm. 18+ Tuesday, 12/6 Obscura (pictured above), Abysmal Dawn, Enfold Darkness @ Kingdom 5pm. Tuesday, 12/6 Compass Rose Orchestra, Marcus Tenney Trio (pictured above) @ The Camel 8:30pm. Free. 18+ Wednesday,...
Emperor X - Western Teleport (Bar/None) It can be easy when considering a modern indie rock record to get caught up in subgenre bingo. Is it chillwave, or glo-fi? Dream pop? Beach punk? Some combination of them all? Avoiding a detailed description through the generous use of previously defined signifiers becomes the path of least resistance. But...
WHO: Long Jawns and DJ Doddie WHAT: REBEL WHEN: Friday, December 2nd 2011, 10PM WHERE: Republic WHO: Long Jawns and DJ Doddie WHAT: REBEL WHEN: Friday, December 2nd 2011, 10PM WHERE: Republic
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The one word which can best describe this past week in the electronic dance music community is historical. Why? Because Skrillex managed to shock the world by becoming the first EDM artist to ever receive a Grammy nomination. He followed this up with four more nominations, bringing his total to five, while cronies Avicii, Deadmau5, David Guetta,...
