MUSIC

The Reactionaries - 1979 (45 RPM Records) It’s really impossible to do the San Pedro, California-based punk band The Reactionaries proper justice without mentioning the band they later spawned, the Minutemen. The latter group was known for a mixture of hardcore...

While Jonathan Lee might be recognized by most Richmond show-goers as the keyboard player for

RJD2 with AudioAmmo Thursday February 10 at The Canal Club Four turntables, mp mixer, and a shit ton of vinyl records. That was the scene onstage at the Canal Club last Thursday night. The show had been highly anticipated for weeks, since the announcement that RJD2...

JEFF The Brotherhood - Heavy Days (Infinity Cat) JEFF the Brotherhood is a two-piece sibling band from Tennessee and Heavy Days is their fourth album. Their sound lies in the sweet spot where fuzzy riff-rock meets compact pop-punk. If you were one of my fellow music...

2/14 Black Valentine's feat. Josh Small (pictured above), Baby Help Me Forget, The Diamond Center @ Cous Cous 10pm. 2/14 , Dirty Finger, Nola Brown, Diamond Black Hearted Boy (pictured above), Vockah Redu & the Cru @ Strange Matter 9pm. 2/14 RVA Magazine pres. ‘Easy...

Hang Glider - Hang Glider (Self-released) This mysterious EP by a solo musician based in LA comes to the listener through a druggy, ambient haze, its synthesizer-driven pop feeling so languid that at times you'd think the tapes are slowed down on purpose. In fact,...

Spacebomb Records is a brand new Richmond record label based on old-fashioned ideas. Its founders, Matthew White, Dean Christesen, Jesse Medaries, and Matt Rawls, take their inspiration from the music makers of a half-century ago: Phil Spector, Stax Records, The Brill...