It's getting a little spooky around these parts. With Halloweekend, and the holiday itself, almost upon us, we're here to lay down for you the tunes to keep your partying fresh and well soundtracked. An indie group out of Boston called Palehound will be making their...
Every year the SXSW interactive festival in Austin fills me with such enthusiasm and excitement that it takes a few weeks after I return to Richmond before I come down from it. I find myself missing the world where every conversation is conducted amidst constant iPhone cosultation-multitasking. I find myself searching endlessly for lunch...
I've known Lloyd for a long time now from skating in VA Beach. He always had good steez and dope tricks and rolled with the ill crew VA Fleezers. I moved to RIC but kept in touch and he would hit me up whenever he was in town. Everytime I saw him he would talk about a music project he was working on and before I knew it I was at the album release...
UDACHI (Party Like Us / T&B) comes to Richmond from NYC for April’s edition of BRAIN DRAIN! We’re super excited to have Party Like Us artist and one of New York’s underground bass heroes, Udachi, join us for Brain Drain! Riding a bullet out of hell on a path to nowhere, Udachi's influence lies heavily in the psychedelic and manic aspect of dance...
Ban Ran - Stop Kor (Way Back When/Even Worse Records) One of the best things about record stores run by knowledgeable, conscientious employees is the sort of personalized understanding that can be ascertained about a particular customer's tastes and interests, however mundane or arcane they might seem to anybody else. So when I happened to be in...
4/14 Ben Folds (pictured above), Kenton Chen @ The National 8pm. 4/14 Balaclava (pictured above), Caulfield, Bear Trap @ Strange Matter 10pm. 4/14 Sports Bar (pictured above), Sexy Crimes (split 7” record release) @ Cous Cous 10pm. free. 4/14 East Cackalacky Ascetic Marching Death Band (pictured above), The Dirty Nubs, Over There, Dr. Dukes @...
Wormrot, Tombs, D.O.C. (Disciples Of Christ), Grown Ass Men, and Real Talk Tuesday, March 29 at Gallery 5 There are a lot of positive aspects of Gallery 5, but one fact that can't be ignored is that it's a big concrete cell of a room, with high ceilings and hard floors. It's strange, therefore, how many of the shows I've seen at Gallery 5 over...
Smoking Popes - This Is Only A Test (Asian Man) Smoking Popes’ mid-‘90s albums Born to Quit and Destination: Failure meant the world to punks with sappy streaks. I remember my friends laughing at me for playing the “Just broke up with my girlfriend” song during a... breakup with a girlfriend. Another friend met a boyfriend through a zine-trading...
Local MC Cain McCoy is turning 24 this week. In celebration, he's throwing a birthday bash at Strange Matter this Wednesday night, and everyone's invited! Here's some details, straight from the man himself: "Wednesday April 13th is my 24th birthday, so I thought: What more awesome way to celebrate than with my awesome music friends at Strange...
