MUSIC

Neu! were a groundbreaking German rock group, active in the early and mid-70s, who have often been credited with the creation of the droning, hypnotic style of music known as Krautrock. Disbanded over 30 years ago, interest in Neu!--never that popular while they...

Street Pizza - Cancerous Planet (Sympathizer Records) With the unprecedented diffusion of music brought on by the internet, it seems like every minute sub-sub-genre can now experience its fifteen minutes of quasi-fame. Power violence – a style originating in southern...

Mikey Erg plays more music than anyone you know. He was the drummer of arguably the most important pop-punk band of the last ten years, and he’s not stopping now that The Ergs! have run their course. He plays drums and guitar for countless bands between the east coast...

Richmond native Chance Fischer (shown here as Mars Blackmon) has put out a mixtape that is getting mad love up north and we are pleased to be passing this along to the hip-hop heads in RVA. The production is excellent and the kid has a sound that harkens back but is...

Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa EP (Decon) In the last three years, Freddie Gibbs has run and completed a full horrific lap of the mainstream music industry rat race. After establishing himself as one of Indiana’s finest underground artists, he signed a deal with...

Tenement is a three-piece noisy pop punk band from a small town in Wisconsin called Appleton. Guitar player and vocalist Amos Pitsch is probably the most talented musician you’ve never heard of. Scorching solos work their way into catchy, riffy hooks with gruff, lo-fi...

Sundials - The First Six Songs (Self-Released) The sheer fact that a band like Sundials calls Richmond, Virginia their home brings a smile to my face. Sundials is a band that predicates itself on having fun and reflecting on passing years. Their flickering memories...

Richmond ragers Municipal Waste have just released a new video for their song "Acid Sentence," from last year's Massive Aggressive LP (Earache Records). With its combination of slasher mayhem and thrashing madness, it looks like the best video you'd see on any given...