Creativity is challenging without community, a problem that the up-and-coming OffKey Entertainment is looking to solve. They aren’t a band, or a record label, but something bigger than that. “We are a collective, we are a group, we are a family,” I’m told on the porch...
3/17 Modlin Center for the Arts pres. KODO Drummers of Japan @ Landmark Theater (The Mosque) 7:30pm. 3/17 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Celtic sounds of Enter the Haggis @ Capital Ale House Music Hall 9pm. 3/18 Nervous Ticks (pictured above), Precious Fluids, Bloody Crackdown @ Sprout 10pm. 3/18 Save My Byrd Tail Fundraiser feat. Bob...
Chris Price is a self-described “record nerd” with a finger firmly on the pulse of the DC music scene. As such, he was ill from the top 40 nights played out all over the city and diagnosed the need for an "underground-alt NY style party" for Washingtonians. So he started Unknown Pleasures with his label Future Forward Records as a cure to the Top...
The Strokes - Angles (RCA) The Strokes' fourth full-length studio release finds the band in rare form. Forgoing the Julian Casablancas-helmed writing and composition formula that had been the mainstay of the band's illustrious and enigmatic career, the album finds the roles reversed, with the band composing and Casablancas's vocals existing...
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead--a dead parent, for example--can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.” – Jacques Derrida The Diamond Center is a band that claims to be from from Richmond VA, Georgia, Texas, Earth--we suspect more supernatural origins. How else to explain their...
That's right, well-beloved Florida stoner band Torche returns once again to Richmond, and you can be on hand to watch the whole thing go down. Torche are still touring in support of last year's Songs For Singles EP, which expands on the melodic side they showed off on their previous full-length, 2008's Meanderthal, while also getting creative...
Like dark matter--that unobservable force that astrophysicists believe holds the universe together--the “It Factor” is phantom magic that few are fortunate enough to possess. Those who possess this magical trait attract our attention and influence us without trying. They are the ones that inadvertently become game-changers, igniting movements and...
Bright Eyes and Cursive Sunday, March 6 at The National I found there to be a lot to consider as I ventured to catch Bright Eyes and Cursive this past Sunday. With the release of The People’s Key, this tour would act as a farewell for the Bright Eyes name. I considered how much of an achievement it has been for the group to reach the pinnacles...
Gang Of Four - Content (Yep Roc) Gang Of Four are an almost universally acclaimed band, and they deserve to be. If there were a postpunk hall of fame, they'd claim membership by virtue of their debut album, 1979's Entertainment!, alone. In fact, it often seems that Entertainment!, alone or nearly so, is the measure by which their entire career is...
3/14 Kohoutek, Caves Caverns, Frankzig (pictured above) @ Sprout 9pm. 3/14 Fashion Bath (pictured just above), Young Adult Fiction, Lester Seal and The Point, Sophisticated Cat @ The Camel 8pm. 3/14 Real Talk (pictured above), Partial People, Cop City Chill Pillars @ Strange Matter 9pm. 3/14 She Rides (pictured above, pic by Lisa Gourley), Almost...
