MUSIC

Sometimes I get down on the current state of hip-hop music, but whenever I really look, I realize that the problem is most of the time I'm too lazy to find the good shit. Like this; Shad is a Canadian rapper whose third album, TSOL, just came out in America last month...

11/15 Kid is Qual (pictured atop), Sports Bar, Trew, DJ Air Waste @ The Cellar Door (1600 Monument Ave.) 10pm. - A guy to my right takes over for melancholy… 11/15 Kid is Qual (pictured atop), Sports Bar, Trew, DJ Air Waste @ The Cellar Door (1600 Monument Ave.) 10pm....

Friday November 12. The place was the Landmark Theater, front row seats. With an oversized Heineken in hand, and what turned out to be undersized expectations, I watched as the Experience Hendrix Tour 2010 exploded onto the stage. Friday November 12. The place was the...

Bermuda Triangles - Reptilian Intervention (CNP Records) I am going to be as objective as I possibly can in reviewing the newest Bermuda Triangles’ LP Reptilian Intervention, released last May on the CNP label. This is going to be a hard one, for these lads are dear...

Pretty Lights (and Bassnectar) with Chali 2na Nov. 4 at The National Last week in Richmond, something happened that I have never seen before. Two artists, Bassnectar and Pretty Lights, booked at separate sold-out venues in Richmond, coordinated a plan to leave fans of...

The duo of The Low Branches Matt Klimas and Christina Gleixner stopped in to perform for RVA Sessions. The duo of The Low Branches Matt Klimas and Christina Gleixner stopped in to perform for RVA Sessions. You can see them live tonight, Thursday November 11th playing...

Best Of The Blogs: Part 1 No longer does the world have to suffer the carbon footprint of my almost daily musical quests. All I have to do now is sit in front of my computer to find a plethora of unique, non-mainstream inspirations that eluded me, more times than not,...