This week’s edition of YO! HIP HOP RVA features Richmond hip-hop legend Radio B and rising star T.R.I.G. with former’s record serving as a showcase of lyrical prowess, and the latter delivering a raw, beautifully produced album. Additionally, in recent weeks,...
That's right, it's the third annual edition of this Halloween cover band event! This year, there are so many awesome bands playing, it wouldn't fit into one night. So come out to Strange Matter on Saturday, and then again on Sunday, for two nights of awesome cover bands! The event is free, and there'll be costume contests on both nights, so come...
Thursday, 10/27 The Greater the Risk, Rookie of the Year, Like the Stars, Men of Leisure (pictured above) @ Canal Club 6pm. Thursday, 10/27 Direct Control (pictured above), Warcry, Ripper, Siren @ Strange Matter 10pm. 18+ Thursday, 10/27 Chromeo (pictured above), Mayer Hawthorne @ The National 8pm. All ages. Friday, 10/28 Dick Dale @ Capital Ale...
Susan SurfTone – Shore (Acme Brothers Records) It's usually fairly easy to form expectations for any band that utilizes their genre name within their stage name, a point borne out by Metallica, Funkadelic, and the vast majority of ska bands that ever existed. It could be argued that this is a self-defeating measure, as it instantly pegs an...
Here it is, folks, the latest video from DC/RVA's long-running metal/hardcore quintet, Darkest Hour. "Your Every Day Disaster" is the third single from their ninth (!) record, The Human Romance, and it proves that if anything, these guys are better than ever. The video is an onrushing sensory overload of quick cuts and blurry black and white...
Richmond's favorite hostile man-eating aliens, fresh off their triumphant second annual GWAR-B-Que, will return for the second year in a row to the set of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as part of their Return Of The World Maggot Tour! "We are overjoyed that Jimmy had the good sense to invite us back," declared front-thing Oderus Urungus, "as we...
There's been a sudden surge in psychedelic music in the Richmond scene over the last year or two, and Palindrone has been right in the middle of it. Singer/guitarist Christian Brady, who first came to prominence as the vocalist and bassist of DC-based experimental hardcore band Mass Movement Of The Moth, spent the middle part of the last decade...
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems to me that a lot of Richmond hip-hop artists are getting their names out there and grabbing the spotlight beyond the city limits lately. This is a great development for RVA hip-hop, of course--it's great to see our scene on the upswing, growing stronger by the week. And this week, yet another...
That's right, folks, we have a pair of tickets to give away to see this excellent double bill at the 930 Club in Washington DC next Friday night, November 4. Scratch Acid were a truly insane noise-punk band who came out of Austin, TX in the 1980s, releasing three albums before breaking up in 1987. Their albums were eventually compiled onto a CD...
For the past year, Tuesday nights have been Honky Tonk nights at Empire. DJ Cheyenne McClanahan spins plenty of classic country and rockabilly vinyl all night, and there are $3 pork BBQ sandwiches and cheap drink specials available as well. It's always a good time, and it promises to be especially so tonight, on the one-year anniversary of this...
