This story was originally published in RVA 41 which can be in various locations around town, or you can read it right here. This is a slightly modified version formatted for digital distribution. There is no band quite like Butcher Brown. If one were to head into any...
Citizens Arrest – Soaked In Others’ Blood (Coextinction) A controversial proposition – Citizens Arrest was the best New York hardcore band ever. Before the hate mail starts flowing, just try to come up with another band who could kill it so consistently across the span of multiple releases. Antidote and Urban Waste each had a spectacular EP, but...
6/13 FocusedXMinds, Bent Life (pictured above), Break Away, File 13, Pussywillow @ Strange Matter 5pm (early, all ages) 6/13 Parasytic, Origin of M (pictured above), 45 A.D., Siren @ Strange Matter 10:30pm. (Late) 18+ 6/13 Now Sleepyhead (pictured above), Sleepy Vikings, Canary Oh Canary @ Sprout 10pm. 6/14 Free Jazz Night feat. Scott Clark 4tet,...
This week the Rubber Room guys welcomed Spotted Dead Nettle into the studio. They brought with them their instruments and rocked out with us on a variety of of original tunes that showed off their wide spectrum of influences. This week the Rubber Room guys welcomed Spotted Dead Nettle into the studio. They brought with them their instruments and...
If there exists a chance to see individual songs slightly obscured by the flotsam and jetsam of Austin Psych Fest 4 – buried beneath the bands, the beer, the BBQ, the friends, the fans, the fun – it’s through no fault of The Fresh and Onlys. The San Francisco foursome has become known for treating listeners to an expansive selection of...
Petrychor – Effigies and Epitaphs (Krysanthoney) I have to hand it to one-man black metal band Petrychor; they do two things really well. And lest this sound like I'm damning the band with faint praise, one might consider that many bands in their genre do only a single thing well (whether that's Emperor's bombastic tendencies or Bone Awl's...
The Flaming Lips with The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth TigerSunday, May 15 at The National I was lucky that I even got a chance to go to this show. It sold out weeks in advance, before I'd even fully considered the question of whether I wanted to go. Then I got the chance to interview Wayne Coyne. During the process of transcription, I had plenty of...
6/9 Trapped Under Ice, Stick Together, Turnstile, Worlds Apart @ The Warehouse (1300 School St./near VUU) 7pm. 6/9 Capital 7 (Photo by Brandon Hambright), Basmati, The Ark, J-Bones @ Canal Club 7pm. All ages. 6/9 RUIN & Trapstar DJ’s “Worldwide Wangin’” official mixtape release party feat. RUIN (pictured above), DJ Var; Hosted by Noah O @ The...
In this weeks episode Opposite The Satellite joined the Rubber Room for some juvenile fun and low brow humor. In this weeks episode Opposite The Satellite joined the Rubber Room for some juvenile fun and low brow humor. Opposite The Satellite brought the pain with two of their angst filled original tunes while covering two of our favorite Nirvana...
Between The Buried And Me - Best Of (Victory Records) I first became aware of this band back in 2001 when they released their debut EP. Having grown directly out of pioneering North Carolina metalcore band Prayer For Cleansing, they had a lot of friends in Richmond as soon as they started, one of whom was then a bandmate of mine. He played their...
