There are lots of celebrations in the Richmond music world coming up, and what could be a more fitting way for musicians to commemorate milestones and successes then by having a day filled with music. If you’re overwhelmed by all the exciting things happening around...
They call themselves The Wave: a collective of like-minded bands from different parts of America who have joined together in an ongoing collaboration. The link between these bands is not necessarily musical, and The Wave isn't a "new wave" of some genre or another. There are uniting factors between all of the bands--emotionally-centered lyrical...
This Moment In Black History - Public Square (Smog Veil) There is a sort of sonic sweet spot that the best rock bands can manage to wedge themselves into at their more inspired moments – where songs are possessed by an unhinged energy and dangle over the precipice of incoherence, remaining adhered only by force of enthusiasm. Technical accuracy...
Chicago rush hour traffic can be intimidating, to say the least. This seems doubly true when your van, which reeks of body odor and food leftovers from two weeks of tour, insists on turning itself off whenever traffic slows to between five and ten miles an hour. This situation is the one we recently found ourselves in on Sundials’ summer tour....
Good god what a performance. Stage presence, lighting, great recording, and my personal favorite are the backing vocalists in pink boas adding a bit of soul to a wonderful, but bit mechanical song*. *I am well aware that I might get the crap beaten out of my by a group of 80's music fanatics for saying this song is a bit mechanical. What can I...
The Arcade Fire The Suburbs The Suburbs is an absolutely wonderful counterpart to the Arcade Fire’s past two releases. The wait from Neon Bible has only allowed the band to come off as even more tried and true to their methods. While The Suburbs exists primarily in a sound that doesn’t feel too unexpected from the group, the record finds itself...
Gallery5 doesn't open new art exhibits during the summer months, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't stop in on them during your First Fridays wanders! It's a BIG FAT FREE music event, deejayed by Cherry Bomb's White Whine. Performances by Lord of the Yum Yum (video below), Flechette, and Pizza (members of Pygmy Lush). We'll be posting more this...
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here (Editions Mego) Emeralds play compositions that, rather than being divided into verses and choruses, start from small, quiet ideas and build up from there. The result is somewhere between the post-rock of Tortoise and the bizarre electronica of Aphex Twin. Enchanting, melodious beds of sound that subtly...
Bounce is back!!! Well we have been on the road Dj'ing parties us and down the east coast from Transformus to PEX Festival its been a amazing journey. Along the way many of our close Dj friends dropped amazing sets - and I am happy to bring you one of those killer sets. This is from Lina Luv a amazing house Dj, here we have her very vibey...
Ghastly City Sleep is a difficult band to pin down. Any listeners who had expected a continuation of members’ previous bands - including such turn-of-the-millenium hardcore and metal bands as Majority Rule, Pg. 99, Kilara, and City of Caterpillar - would have been in for a surprise. Their first EP channeled both hazy ambience of shoegazer bands...
