With the Richmond Folk Festival going up this weekend, there will be nonstop music for three days down at Brown's Island to usher the fall weather in earnest to Richmond. Although it is not exclusively folk music down at the festival -- which has been known to host...
Audio Ammo is headin to Norfolk to team up with the Noah Larmz crew for a night of pure bass destruction. This long awaited, inevitable collaboration is a prime example of "real recognize real" and is sure prove a worthy event to attend. Check out the NorVA tomorrow and get your ear drums split as Richmond's Brain Drain invades the city. WHO:...
Haste The Day, Mychildren Mybride, The Chariot, and A Plea For Purging Monday, March 7 at The Canal Club I'm an old man now, and all-ages shows trip me up. As it's become more and more common for me to head out to shows that don't start until 10 PM, earlier start times become harder and harder to make. I thought I was doing a good job by showing...
We've been telling you about Real Talk for a while now. They're a Richmond hardcore supergroup, featuring current or former members of Brainworms, The Catalyst, Operation Latte Thunder and Forensics, getting back to their roots and playing some fast, angry hardcore. Now, for the first time, we're in a position to give you advance warning about...
Tonight, electronic heavyweights will reclaim their throne at the Hat Factory in Richmond. With an impressive performance for one of last semester’s RVALUTION’s, Designer Drugs have exploded throughout the scene. With shows world-wide and a newly released full-length album HARDCORE/SOFTCORE, this is the show to leave for Spring Break with. It...
3/10 Lost Tribe (pictured above, pic by Sarja Hasan), SGNLS, Tate House, Drums Like Machine Guns @ Strange Matter 10pm. 3/10 The Trillions, Embarrassing Fruits, Jason Horst & the Best of the Worst (pictured above) @ Gallery 5 7pm. 3/10 Destroy Your Idols feat. Designer Drugs (pictured above), Reinhold, Dylan Mott @ The Hat Factory @ 10pm. 3/11...
Kohoutek has been an improv psych collective since 2003, when the group was cultivated at DC DIY spots 611 Florida Ave and the 7th Street Warehouse Nextdoor. The instrumental lineup is a malleable beast, changing from show to show, tour to tour, always held down by the percussive king/Kohoutek mastermind Scott Verrastro. Kohoutek's always cosmic...
Cloudland Canyon is a place where sound, song and sonic subterfuge stack atop each other much the same way as do the past, present and future--a persistent illusion. Listening to their most recent album--their third full-length overall, entitled Fin Eaves--is an invitation to get lost in a strange landscape, a landscape offering a thousand paths...
Des Ark and Pygmy Lush are two bands with much in common. Beginning in the DC area DIY hardcore scene around the middle of the last decade, both bands moved from the post-hardcore sound that initially made their name into much more eclectic styles. Both groups incorporated a great deal of acoustic instrumentation into their sound, while still...
This Friday at Strange Matter, CMLK, presents to you : Bloom , a showcase of some of the East Coast's most followed underground beat musicians. CMLK, a Virginia based collective consisting of : Ohbliv, Ahnnu, Shawn Kemp, Mir, and Messi are teaming up with their Philly native cronies, Knxwledge, Mndsgn, and Sir Froderick to bring you a night of...
