This article originally appeared in RVA #40 back in March 2023. The Camel, just after their three o'clock opening time on an unreasonably beautiful weekday in February, is a far cry from 10 o'clock on a Saturday night. Inside, it is quiet and simple, the veritable...
Midnight Soulstice is a Richmond Soul and Funk radio show, hosted by Mr. Felty & DJ Pari, featuring guest artists and DJs.The show airs every Friday from 11pm-1am EST. Listen live at 97.3fm or WRIR.org CLICK HERE FOR MIDNIGHT SOULSTICE Dig this - Midnight Soulstice co-host DJ Pari is back from his recent European tour with Soul legend Leroy...
World Burns To Death/Slang - Split EP (Prank Records) The humanity! All bullshit torn asunder, Never relenting. Negative Approach – Friends Of No One (Taaang Records) If you have to ask, You’re prob’ly never get it. Worst cover art though. Brain Handle – Smiling/Smiling Again (Iron Lung Records) Seething Rust Belt angst, Bowing deep at Ginn’s...
A little something to get your tired Monday brains excited about the weekend again. The Trendsetters @ New York Deli on Friday. CLUBLUV October @ New York Deli on Saturday. This is going to be a HUGE weekend people! Listen and download to your hearts content 🙂 Cheers! - DJ Epoc CLICK HERE FOR RVA RADIO: DJ EPOC 1. Adam Beyer & Alex Delano -...
Conditions - Fluorescent Youth (Good Fight) You're never going to hear anyone make the statement "I've been emo since before it was cool," because anyone who's listened to the style of music now known as emo for long enough to make that statement almost certainly hates the term and vociferously refuses to identify with it. Having said that, I've...
The Hold Steady and Wintersleep Monday, September 20 at The National Expectations are a real motherfucker. Negative expectations are very easily lived up to, to the point that they can verge on self-fulfilling prophecy. Positive expectations are easily disappointed, especially those which are held long enough to become a sort of truism in the...
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD) The warm haze of lo-fi vocals and shoegaze guitars combines with programmed beats and synth swirls to create a melodic crossbreed of electronic music and psychedelia. Deerhunter have previously established this sound on albums like Microcastle, but Halcyon Digest improves on it significantly. Perhaps their best...
Jackie O set the Hat Factory on fire a few weeks ago and here's hoping we get her back soon to do it again. Check her out at www.myspace.com/djjackieo CLICK HERE FOR JACKIE O Jackie O set the Hat Factory on fire a few weeks ago and here's hoping we get her back soon to do it again. Check her out at www.myspace.com/djjackieo CLICK HERE FOR JACKIE...
Continuing with today's theme of the 90s, here's a great video I discovered on Youtube recently--Grip, later known as Dayspring, playing at the Metro in December of 1992. They're doing their song "Diffidence," which was on their first EP, Friction Burn Fatal, released on New Age Records and apparently still available, at least on CD if not vinyl....
Justice Yeldham AKA Lucas Abela is a sound explorer, a lovely and sweet-hearted Australian dude whose personality exhibits an amazing harmony of tender personality and intense alien. Since the mid 1990s he has been exploring sounds from unusual and unique sources, working extensively with turntables and concrètely warped realities. The past years...
