While the Summer weather persists for another month or so around Richmond, the school children and college students will be venturing back into the classrooms in about a week. Worry not, for there's plenty to do around Richmond for young families and undergrads...
Southside’s Dream Atlantic tore the roof off The National last Friday night. The hardcore quintet’s double bass blasts and Southern-fried shredding brought out their fans in anticipation of getting an early copy of the band’s new EP, Gunslingers, which dropped for the masses four days later on the 7th of September. The band hit the stage after a...
In early September 2010, Richmond lost one of its brightest creative sparks. Ross Harman—musician, visual artist, and one half of the beloved indie-pop duo The Gaskets—took his own life after a long and private struggle. For those who knew him, Ross was more than his talent. He was a friend with a sharp mind, a generous heart, and a complicated...
The latest and greatest from local homie Nickelus F. Here's the full length video for Nickelus F's "Take You With Me." This is the 3rd video from Nick's Season Premiere mixtape. Directed by Will Bryan & cinematography by Alex Hawthorne for Smooth Dirty Productions (http://www.vimeo.com/user2258328). Will Bryan will also be directing the Nickelus...
To describe Diamond Black Hearted Boy as simply wild and exciting would appear to be an understatement. These two aspects are certainly at play. Yet it is the variety of performances and reactions set in motion within that speak volumes. They are deliberate attempts at challenging any preconceived notions an audience or an artist has when it...
Rising from the ashes of short-lived Richmond hardcore band Brain Damage, Deep China make an excellent first impression on their four-song demo. Three-fourths of the band's lineup carries over from Brain Damage, but with bassist James Henderson now handling vocal duties, and the addition of second guitarist Reid Attaway, Deep China has a thicker,...
Punch - Push Pull (Discos Huelga/625) One extremely hungover summer morning a few years ago I was fighting the pounding in my head, struggling to keep my morning coffee from coming right back up, and trying in vain to figure out what had happened to me the previous evening. My heart sank into my turbulent stomach when I checked my e-mail. At the...
36 Crazyfists - Collisions And Castaways (Ferret Music) Having been a band for over fifteen years now, it seems that Alaskan metalcore foursome 36 Crazyfists have accepted their lot in life. Downgrading from Roadrunner Records (where they were labelmates with Nickelback), who released their first two LPs, to Ferret Music, whose most high-profile...
This truly excellent video of the Netherfriends performing at a house show in Richmond on April 19 of this year was shot and put together by Graham Ohmer. We've talked about the Netherfriends before, but coming upon this video this morning was my first real experience with their music, and I was absolutely entranced. As the video depicts--with...
Pere Ubu – Annotated Modern Dance (Hearpen/Smog Veil Records) -- “Culture happens in secret, all art is secret. Ordinary people only see the ashes of art, or the failures, or frozen moments. Only rarely onstage do bands achieve reality; mostly it’s in rehearsals, in lost moments.” - David Thomas, Pere Ubu vocalist. -- If ever there was a band...
