Just because it's the slow season for live music doesn't mean YOU need to slow down. Sure most of the outside venues are calling it quits until the spring, but there are still plenty of places around town to catch some music every single night of the week if you so...
Long-time Richmonder Tim Barry is beginning the recording of his new album 40 MILER, which is due in early 2012 on Chunksaah Records. Local filmmaker J LAW put together this video from inside Minimum Wage Studios and captured footage from on the road with Tim Barry. Keep in touch at TimBarryRVA.com Long-time Richmonder Tim Barry is beginning the...
Considering that we've been telling you about how amazing Conditions are for quite a while, both in the magazine and here on the website, it'd be a shame if you haven't checked them out by now. Or maybe you have, and were sufficiently impressed that you understand that you should see them every chance you get. Whichever one of these options...
Silla Eléctrica – Ritmo Suicida (Solo Para Punks) Greil Marcus once wrote that the best punk rock can “convince you that you never have to hear anything else as long as you live,” that “each record seems to say everything there is to say.” It's a wonderful idea, bestowing upon something so maligned and misunderstood the seemingly contradictory...
Beirut, Gabriel and the Hounds Tuesday, October 25 at The National The first time I heard Beirut was my freshman year at VCU. Something about the then one-man project’s sound seemed to encapsulate the fullness of life. And so, at every party my friends and I held that year, someone invariably pulled out a guitar near the end of the evening so we...
One of the most unexpectedly uplifting surprises of the year has been becoming fluent in the language of Swahili – being in this case the extraordinary band of altered-state enthusiasts from the Pacific Northwest. Learning the language of Swahili – as spoken through synth, drum, drone, and the occasional well-placed moan on their spectacular,...
This should be a pretty amazing show. Asobi Seksu are an excellent shoegaze/dream-pop group who wowed us when they played Strange Matter back in the spring. This show comes pretty close to the end of their North American tour for their latest album, Fluorescence, so don't miss them, because it might be a while before they come through again. The...
11/10 Oh Sleeper, Greeley Estates, Ten After Two, At The Skylines, Secrets, Bring The Arsenal, Oh The Irony, Therefore I Fear, I Prayed For An Afterlife @ Kingdom 4pm. (early) All ages. 11/10 Backwords, Precious Fluids (pictured above) @ Carytown Bistro (Cary & 28 S. Auburn Ave.) 7pm. Free. All ages. 11/10 Absu, Infernal Stronghold, Battlemaster...
There's a little over two weeks left until DC plays host to a one-of-a-kind festival, one that is sure to be a treat to the majority of your senses. Steez Promo, the same people behind the Starscape Festival, in conjunction with Underworld, have booked a massive roster of many of the leading EDM artists in the industry today. Acts ranging from...
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All Sunday, October 23 at the 930 Club (Washington DC) In recent memory, has there been a group as controversial as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All? While revising this article, information was released that would lead one to believe that Left Brain slapped a female photographer in the face during their set in...
