MUSIC

To describe Diamond Black Hearted Boy as simply wild and exciting would appear to be an understatement. These two aspects are certainly at play. Yet it is the variety of performances and reactions set in motion within that speak volumes. They are deliberate attempts...

Rising from the ashes of short-lived Richmond hardcore band Brain Damage, Deep China make an excellent first impression on their four-song demo. Three-fourths of the band's lineup carries over from Brain Damage, but with bassist James Henderson now handling vocal...

Punch - Push Pull (Discos Huelga/625) One extremely hungover summer morning a few years ago I was fighting the pounding in my head, struggling to keep my morning coffee from coming right back up, and trying in vain to figure out what had happened to me the previous...

36 Crazyfists - Collisions And Castaways (Ferret Music) Having been a band for over fifteen years now, it seems that Alaskan metalcore foursome 36 Crazyfists have accepted their lot in life. Downgrading from Roadrunner Records (where they were labelmates with...

This truly excellent video of the Netherfriends performing at a house show in Richmond on April 19 of this year was shot and put together by Graham Ohmer. We've talked about the Netherfriends before, but coming upon this video this morning was my first real experience...

Pere Ubu – Annotated Modern Dance (Hearpen/Smog Veil Records) -- “Culture happens in secret, all art is secret. Ordinary people only see the ashes of art, or the failures, or frozen moments. Only rarely onstage do bands achieve reality; mostly it’s in rehearsals, in...