MUSIC

Sitting Indian style in front of Plaza Artist Materials following a Columbus Day performance at Strange Matter, Shawn Rosenblatt, the sole consistent member of Netherfriends, adjusts his greasy, disheveled hair to the side. “Today I felt very ugly for awhile,” he...

12/27 Paul Ivey (pictured atop, pic by 5th Gear Photography), Thelma Shook, The Vacant Stairs @ The Camel 8pm. 12/27 Clutch, Kylesa, Righteous Fool, Hex Machine (pictured just above, photo by PJ Sykes) @ The National 8pm. 12/27 POA (pictured just above, pic by Curtis...

Cloud Rat – Cloud Rat (Midwestern Decline/IFB/Otherwise Dead) The type of band that offers a resuscitated version of a previous era’s music often does so with a strict and wildly inaccurate set of blinders on. Legions of Farfisa-bashing garage bands would have you...

The video from Amazing Ghost's "i getuppa" is a magical trip through the clouds full of wizards, demon birds, dancing girls, dolphins, and unicorns. We get to see the band battling evil forces with their brand of good time music and bringing peace to the scene. ps- is...

The Puppini Sisters - Christmas With The Puppini Sisters (Verve) Reviewing music is always a complicated matter, but it gets exponentially moreso when Christmas is added to the equation. Everyone has strong feelings about Christmas, from the "true meaning" types who...

About a week before their show in Richmond this past October, Matt And Kim's Matt Johnson awoke with a hangover in St. Petersburg, Florida. Rather than bemoaning his physical distress, though, he celebrated the glorious hangover, achieved through a night of...

“I don’t like hypnotics. I’m doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state. And I think there is one right now. I just want to play. I just want things to change like the patterns and shadows that fall from the sun.” – Captain Beefheart The first...

RNS hit us up a month ago and said he had something BIG to put out. Little did we know it would be a bumping 3 hour journey through clubland with almost every electro track you can think of. Check it out and the short interview below. RVA: DJ RNS, this is an epic set...