Chandler Matkins? He's a laid-back dude, funny as hell, but you look at him with that fiery red beard and bald head, and you're like, "A rising rap star? Nah!" Him being a comedian? Absolutely, no doubt about it. Him playing drums for a Southern roots rock band? Yeah,...
This show took me back to 2003. I was a sophomore in college. I would see Brand New and Thrice regularly at Alley Katz, The Norva and 9:30 Club. They had both just released new albums that provided them with bigger audiences. To me, it was a great time. Now, six years later and I would have the opportunity to see both bands again. This show took...
Not since the animatronic animal band, The Rock-afire Explosion, have I been so duped into expecting one thing and given something else. Not since the animatronic animal band, The Rock-afire Explosion, have I been so duped into expecting one thing and given something else. Those guys were all dark and mysterious with their music, but once you got...
This article appears in our current issue. You can see the entire issue, online for free, hereYou’d be lying to yourself if you said that you didn’t have a dark side. Everyone does, to some degree. Some people are really good at keeping their shadow self hidden beneath the surface, and some people have invited the demons over for dinner,...
What were you up to last Saturday? Maybe you dropped by Plaza Bowl and checked out El Presidente? Perhaps you made new friends at your local watering hole? I personally descended to Shockoe Bottom to see an absolutely fantastic show that was grin inducing to say the least. What were you up to last Saturday? Maybe you dropped by Plaza Bowl and...
It’s the type of music that grabs you by the back, that throws its arms around your shoulders and caries you with bounding elation into the benevolent fray of jumping and dancing concertgoers. It chucks Molotov cocktails through speakers and reads your tarot cards, it has circle pit guitars and trains speeding through Eastern Europe riding fiddle...
In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of fresh air to run across a label that manages to not only to be self-sustainable In a music industry that seems exponentially more fucked as each day passes, it’s a gasp of fresh air to run across a label that manages to not only to be self-sustainable, but...
It might be hard to formulate a definable preconception of music described as “post-brontosaurus indie/folk crunk”, and to be honest, I don’t really know what it means. But it’s cute, and if the press photos are any indication, so is the musician self-applying that laboriously long classification. It might be hard to formulate a definable...
Wild Nothing is a one man music project by Blacksburg, VA songwriter Jack Tatum that has recently caught the attention of a lot of popular indie outlets for his lush shoegaze/dream-pop melodies and impressionistic vocals. Wild Nothing is a one man music project by Blacksburg, VA songwriter Jack Tatum that has recently caught the attention of a...
The Bentzen Ball is a comedy festival in Washington DC 10/22- 25th. Curated by Tig Notaro and featuring great comics from across the city and country. Named after an unfortunate soul who supposedly died while watching A Fish Called Wanda the Bentzen Ball is not to be missed by any fan of comedy. The Bentzen Ball is a comedy festival in Washington...
