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...
Saturday, December 11 brings Ghost Of Pop 6 to Gallery 5 (200 W. Marshall St). This year's edition will feature performances by Young Adult Fiction, Orioles, Rocktopussy, The Trillions, Fuzzy Baby, Prabir/Goldrush, and David Shultz and the Skyline, all for only $5. This show is a perfect opportunity to familiarize yourself with all the great...
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez Volume Three (Sublime Frequencies) Group Doueh - Beatte Harab (Sublime Frequencies) It’s a shame how often albums like the newest from Group Inerane and Group Doueh get classified with the lamentable genre tag “world music.” The term itself establishes a cultural binary--America/modern Western civilization...
Saturday, December 11 brings Ghost Of Pop 6 to Gallery 5 (200 W. Marshall St). This year's edition will feature performances by Young Adult Fiction, Orioles, Rocktopussy, The Trillions, Fuzzy Baby, Prabir/Goldrush, and David Shultz and the Skyline, all for only $5. This show is a perfect opportunity to familiarize yourself with all the great...
Tim Barry Saturday, December 4 at Books Bikes And Beyond The first snow flurries of the year drifted through the glare of Broad Street lights as I approached the door of Books, Bikes and Beyond. My work schedule had forced me to arrive late for the Flying Brick benefit show, and the final act, Tim Barry, had just begun to play. Tim Barry...
BRAIN DRAIN is back for the last party of 2010 with DILLON FRANCIS (Los Angeles // Mad Decent / Plant). In the past year, LA’s Dillon Francis has shot out of nowhere to become one of hottest young DJ/producers in the scene. Murdering it in the production department, Dillon’s been unstoppable - constantly releasing new tracks, from brutal dubstep...
12/9 Gull (pictured atop), additional sounds by Revolt of The Apes @ Cous Cous 10pm. 12/9 Gull (pictured atop), additional sounds by Revolt of The Apes @ Cous Cous 10pm. 12/9 Zoogma, The Silo Effect (pictured above) @ The Canal Club 10pm. 12/9 Synthetic Nightmare (pictured above), The Order of March, Low on Sanity @ Wonderland 9pm. 12/9 Bill...
Stroll through Strange Matter and watch Santa pound 40's of Colt while Slapdash starts the holidays off right with a dope line up of MC's from the Richmond hip hop scene. Kulture, West Coast Kix, Heroes & Ghosts, Eurotrash, Play-N-Trade, and Dreamers Clothing are all backing this shindig by providing goodies for the lucky raffle winners. WHO:...
Apparently punknews.org has a regular feature called Band On Band, where members of two different bands interview each other. On Monday they posted an interview in which Tony Foresta of Municipal Waste interviewed Jon Lewis of The Dopamines, and vice versa. As you might expect, it is utterly insane. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE! Some choice...
This Saturday, December 11, brings Ghost Of Pop 6 to Gallery 5. This show is a perfect opportunity to familiarize yourself with all the great things happening in the Richmond independent pop music scene, or to check out the latest work of some old favorites. As the day of the show draws closer, we'll be running a series of interviews with the...
