This week’s edition of YO! HIP HOP RVA features three gifted MCs, two of which hail from cities outside of Richmond. Tajahmad and Bucky Malone, hailing from South Hill and Northern Virginia respectively, are on opposite sides of the spectrum sonically, but both get...
Thursday 9/22 Case Closed, Raintree, Ear Theory, Herro Sugar (photo by Mian Long), Aim For The Weekend @ Canal Club 7pm. all ages Thursday 9/22 Snarky Puppy @ Balliceaux 110pm. 21+ Thursday 9/22 HotChaCha, The Catalyst, Summer People, Jabroni, Hoax Hunters (photo by Kristel Poole) @ Strange Matter 10pm. Thursday, 9/22 Deer Hoof (pictured above),...
Are you ready for the raging firestorm of hardcore punk fury that will hit Charlottesville in less than a week? Get stoked, because the veteran Canadian sextet Fucked Up aren't going to settle for anything less than total insanity. This group, who has been around for over a decade, have been steadily developing their sound, pushing things farther...
It’s time to break out the electric Kool Aid because The Instant Pleasure Psych Fest is coming to Strange Matter this Friday and Saturday. In what will be two days of heavy vibes and ample sonic dosage, some of the region's most freaked and fuzzed out acts will be performing in a trans-dimensional marathon of eclectic sights and sounds. Richmond...
It's time for yet another Open Stage Night at Cafe Diem, presented by RVA Magazine and Radio Rubber Room. If you've missed the last four events, you've missed great music and good times provided by some of the most talented musicians in the Richmond area. With names like Downbeat Switch, The Kindling Kind, Luke and the Junk, Dane Ferguson,...
Night Birds – The Other Side Of Darkness (Grave Mistake Records) Every other review of this album has relied on certain comparisons that are pretty much unavoidable, so I'll just get them out of the way right now. Agent Orange, Dead Kennedys, Adolescents. There. Done. I didn't want to do it, but it was going to come out eventually. This isn't to...
Hold Tight! have helped lead a resurgence in Richmond’s basement pop-punk scene. They blend pop-hardcore influences like Kid Dynamite and Lifetime with an almost adolescent “let’s have fun and make as many friends as possible because that’s what this is all about” view of music, informed by a deep commitment to the stylings of bands like...
Corrupted – Garten Der Unbewusstheit (Nostalgia Blackrain) Any argument regarding the heaviest bands to have existed will invariably come off as a rather unnecessary expulsion of carbon dioxide into our precious air supply, so I hesitate to even mention such a thing when referencing a band like Corrupted. If I were to make such an assessment,...
“We have created a historic night in RVA, something years from now I can tell my kids about. And the folklore from this night will spread that September 10, 2011 was a great night for RVA Hip-Hop.” –Cain McCoy, Slapdash Promotion. A historic night and a new beginning for RVA Hip-Hop was the sentiment swirling around The Camel in the early hours...
When I met Noah O nearly ten years ago, he appeared from a distance to have a chip on his shoulder. Based on his rough exterior, dressed in baggy colorful clothes, I assumed he was a common thug and labeled him unapproachable. Looking back, I am grateful the universe saw fit to reveal to me the error in my assumptions. I would have been denied...
