Ah, Richmond—where history, culture, and community converge. A city where the clash of new and old offers fertile ground for debate. Well, hold on to your seats, River City, because we're about to roll the dice on our future once again. Just three years ago, we...
This youngster hailing from Rome, Italy is creating quite a buzz with his latest mixtapes and remixes for Top Billin records and the Crookers blog. Have a listen to his most recent X-Mas mixtape "Panettone Is On The Table" that is guaranteed to get the chicks movin. Check out more from Lazy Ants here. This youngster hailing from Rome, Italy is...
Sitting Indian style in front of Plaza Artist Materials following a Columbus Day performance at Strange Matter, Shawn Rosenblatt, the sole consistent member of Netherfriends, adjusts his greasy, disheveled hair to the side. “Today I felt very ugly for awhile,” he says. “It’s a very self-conscious, superficial thing... It was unbelievable.” An...
12/27 Paul Ivey (pictured atop, pic by 5th Gear Photography), Thelma Shook, The Vacant Stairs @ The Camel 8pm. 12/27 Clutch, Kylesa, Righteous Fool, Hex Machine (pictured just above, photo by PJ Sykes) @ The National 8pm. 12/27 POA (pictured just above, pic by Curtis Childress), Window Watcher, Wrist Rocket, American Ruins @ The Warehouse (1300...
Cloud Rat – Cloud Rat (Midwestern Decline/IFB/Otherwise Dead) The type of band that offers a resuscitated version of a previous era’s music often does so with a strict and wildly inaccurate set of blinders on. Legions of Farfisa-bashing garage bands would have you believe that the youth of 1966 were foaming at the mouth over The Monks or The...
The video from Amazing Ghost's "i getuppa" is a magical trip through the clouds full of wizards, demon birds, dancing girls, dolphins, and unicorns. We get to see the band battling evil forces with their brand of good time music and bringing peace to the scene. ps- is that Shannon in there shooting lighting???
The Puppini Sisters - Christmas With The Puppini Sisters (Verve) Reviewing music is always a complicated matter, but it gets exponentially moreso when Christmas is added to the equation. Everyone has strong feelings about Christmas, from the "true meaning" types who hate that the holiday has become so heavily commercialized (and ignore the fact...
About a week before their show in Richmond this past October, Matt And Kim's Matt Johnson awoke with a hangover in St. Petersburg, Florida. Rather than bemoaning his physical distress, though, he celebrated the glorious hangover, achieved through a night of spectacular adventures. There is a delightful optimism in the way he refers to these...
“I don’t like hypnotics. I’m doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state. And I think there is one right now. I just want to play. I just want things to change like the patterns and shadows that fall from the sun.” – Captain Beefheart The first noticeable element of the various eulogies for the late Don Van Vliet is the way that...
RNS hit us up a month ago and said he had something BIG to put out. Little did we know it would be a bumping 3 hour journey through clubland with almost every electro track you can think of. Check it out and the short interview below. RVA: DJ RNS, this is an epic set with a ton of music. What was your thought process going into this thing? RNS:...
