This week in Richmond is going to be an absolute whiplash of lush musical genres. Throughout the week the venues big and small will be filled with raucous music of all kinds from all corners of the world that stand posed to either trip you out or trip you in the mosh...
Liza Kate Don’t Let the Dogs Holiday for Quince Records After years of eager anticipation, Liza Kate’s first full-length has finally arrived. Don’t Let the Dogs feels like a collection of contemplative thoughts that allow the songstress to examine herself along with the world that surrounds her. With the use of thought-provoking metaphors, Kate...
My first encounter with Nick Coward’s music was during a show we played together. I was a last minute addition to a bill that included Billy Wallace of the Wading Girl as well as the two of us. Coward carried a level of intrigue lyrically and musically that immediately had the slim audience filled with allure for each song in his short set. The...
As I stood on the pier on August 29th waiting to board the Eagle I, my mind kept rolling over the same memory: I’m sitting in my car at the tender age of four, listening to what I now know as late-p As I stood on the pier on August 29th waiting to board the Eagle I, my mind kept rolling over the same memory: I’m sitting in my car at the tender...
Pissed Jeans King of Jeans Sub Pop Thank God that there are still bands out there who still possess the art of making captivating and intelligent rock records. King of Jeans is ugly, clever, inventive, and dumb in all the right ways. The band clearly has its roots in hardcore, although their closest contemporaries to my ears would be a deft blend...
A mouth breather, according to UrbanDictionary.com, is basically someone lacking the mental faculties to have learned the art of nasal respiration. Why would a band self-apply such an inauspicious title? We’re not sure, but the raucous and grinding punk of Richmond based Mouthbreather is anything but the vacant stare generally associated with the...
Richmond may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of hip hop. The music that most people correlate with Richmond is either punk or metal, which have always been thriving communities here, and done very well nationally. Hip hop, on the other hand, seems to wax and wane. Richmond may not be the first place that comes to mind...
Microjoy has the best qualities of a fun party band – borderline alcoholism, good-natured jams and an unbelievably wide range of musical influences to make sure all the people in the crowd are touched with the fever. The guys took some time to talk to me about a number of things, some of which are ridiculous. Enjoy. Microjoy has the best...
My first experience encountering Amazing Ghost was at Cous Cous. My friend and co-worker Eddie Prendergast mentioned that he was playing a show. He thought I might dig it and that I should stop by. He played me a song that took the rhythm and beat of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” and flipped it on its head with his rendition entitled...
Something about the dreamy lull of North Carolinians The Kingsbury Manx has always appealed to me. Listening to them can sometimes feel as idyllic as lying on a soft blanket of lawn, watching to clouds shapeshift as the sun goes down and taking in some serious birdsongs. Something about the dreamy lull of North Carolinians The Kingsbury Manx has...
