MUSIC

In less than 48 hours, the Ninth Annual Best Friends Day Weekend will begin, kicking off with a Thursday night show at the Bike Lot. Over the course of a long three-day weekend, the festival will encompass at least 6 more events, featuring live performances by Andrew...

Worried About Your Wiring, the second Amoeba Men LP, has been made available for free download by their label, CNP Records. It's an accurate representation of The Amoeba Men's live sound, a spastic off-kilter noise that is equal parts art-damaged punk, chaotic...

Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains (Soul Motive) This album combines the best ideas from the past two decades of electronic music--hyperactive drum n' bass beats, Burial's underwater dubstep, plus dark ambience and the reverberations of post-apocalyptic cityscapes....

Messi - O (messi.bandcamp.com) The debut album of Chocolate Milk’s Joshua Aidan Padarathsingh, under his latest moniker Messi, finds the former noise artist applying his skill for dissonance and tension to the land of Boom Bap Hip Hop. Messi’s off kilter rhythms,...

Cannabis Corpse have just released the first video in a three-part series documenting their European tour, which took place in February of this year. Other than some short clips of plane rides and backstage antics, this video concentrates on the music, featuring full...

Make Phantoms - Make Phantoms (Stranger Than Fiction) Make Phantoms are a local group with a keyboard-based, melodic indie sound that, at its best moments, is reminiscent of XTC mixed with Death Cab For Cutie. Their production is a bit overdone, but if you can look...

Real Talk, Forensics, and Pujol August 11 at Empire Of the three bands playing the late show at Empire last Wednesday, it was the first band who seemed to generate the most buzz. It was the first show ever for Real Talk, a Richmond supergroup of sorts featuring Kevin...