No matter the tastes of music lovers in this city, there is something for everyone this week. An overwhelming amount of pop music will be passing through (and additionally is on my mind as I will talk about later), so I'll be bringing you the information on my...
2/24 Destiny Da Chef (pictured above), Da 5yve Footaz, Black Lyric @ Harlem Lounge (207 W. Broad St.) 10pm. (see post above) 2/24 Destroy Your Idols feat. DJ Skinny Friedman, along with DJ’s Long (Audio Ammo), Scorpio Static, Sir Reinhold @ The Hat Factory 10pm. 2/24 Glows In the Dark @ Balliceaux 10pm. 2/25 CRAVE feat. A 4 hour set of dark drum...
Eisley - The Valley (Equal Vision) The Valley is the newest release from Tyler, Texas power-pop/indie quintet Eisley. An indie favorite since the release of 2005's Room Noises, Eisley is a tight-knit family band, comprising four siblings and a first cousin. They write enchanting music that makes you feel like you're living a perpetual daydream....
This Thursday at Balliceaux, come check out Richmond jazz quintet Glows In The Dark's latest foray into new sonic territory. Recently they worked with director Mike Malloy, helping to create a soundtrack for his upcoming documentary, Eurocrime!, a history of the poliziotteschi subgenre of Italian crime films. Inspired by dark American crime films...
Bright Eyes - The People's Key (Saddle Creek) When it was announced that The People’s Key would be the last Bright Eyes album, several questions arose. Besides obvious queries regarding style and lyrical content, would this effort adequately close the book on an independent entity that has spanned its course over a decade? In many ways, The...
Buzzoven, Cough, Occultist, Gritter and Druglord Tuesday, February 15 at The Canal Club It would be cool to say I can’t remember much of what happened. That I got there too late to see all five bands, that I was stumbling into girls, puking in the alley, totally drunk, totally out of it. But that’s not what happened. I remember every detail. From...
2/21 The Hi Tones, Parlour Shakedown, Drew Martin & the Limelights (pictured above) @ Canal Club 7pm. 2/21 Weedeater (pictured above), Inter Arma, ASG, Hellbear @ Strange Matter 8pm. 2-21 The Beets (pictured above), Junk Culture, Teen Dreams @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar (414 E. Main St. – Downtown Mall, Charlottesville - 434-293-9947) 9pm. 2/22...
If you’re going to San Francisco… you’re probably not a member of Sleepy Sun. Since the release of their mammoth album Fever early in 2010, the road has been home for these Golden State psychedelic warriors, with word of their increasingly intense live performances being planted like seeds after every show. With that word regularly hovering...
We live in an era that’s fond of free and accessible things. The Internet provides us with this in the form of constant, innumerable data. It’s because of this situation that the modern world is blessed with artists equipped and enabled by an indifference to public domain. Modern artists create a unique pastiche composed of three-dimensional...
All of you fans of that modern strain of indie rock that combines lo-fi psychedelia with modern synthesizer sounds should sit up and take notice of this show. That's right--Animal Collective fans, I'm talking to you. Brooklyn's Miniature Tigers, who are touring to support their second album, Fortress, were at one time declared one of the 25 Best...
