I love Christmas time shows, everyone's cold so they all pack in together, maybe you're at Punks for Presents, maybe you're seeing your friends play their last show of the year. We got a lot of great stuff this week as we close out the year. Got a show coming up? New...
Shock and awe consumed me while my eyes drifted back and forth across the artwork for Piranha Rama’s third album, Omniscient Cloud Cover. When I first listened to the new record, I was doing some chores around the house, and I had it on to experience it as the average listener might: passively. On my next run, I sat down in front of my laptop to...
FEATURED SHOWThursday, September 15, 7 PMIlliterate Light (Photo by Jason Siemer Photography), Palmyra @ The Broadberry - $15 in advance, $18 day of show (order tickets HERE)Back in the spring of 2020, this column went on a hiatus that eventually stretched out for over 18 months. This hiatus, of course, corresponded with the hiatus that live...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, September 10, 3:30 PMFuture Projektor @ The Byrd Theatre - $12 (order tickets HERE)I've seen some pretty amazing shows at The Byrd over the years -- and I'm not just talking about Bob Gulledge playing the Mighty Wurlitzer on Saturday night before the movie, either (though that is always amazing). From a Boom Boom Basics...
It had begun to rain as I was on my way to meet with the members of Høly River at Earth Folk, and I drove right past their driveway on my first pass. Having made a sharp u-turn after my GPS informed me that I was going the wrong way, I inched slowly along the road until I noticed a natural archway ringed in leaves and plants of various kinds. I...
FEATURED SHOWMonday, September 5, 11 AMLabor Of Love, feat. Yarn (Photo by Roger Gupta), South Hill Banks, Dalton Dash, Chris Leggett & The Copper Line, Mackenzie Roark, Tarrant, Slate River Band, The Great Beforetimes, Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers, Nate Oyler @ Main Line Brewery - $20 in advance, $30 day of show (order tickets...
Fe_lie the God is a difficult man to find. When this series of interviews began, my team reached out to every subject asking for their schedules so that we could arrange times to speak that would be convenient for all parties. Some were very responsive, others took a little bit, but I wasn't able to finally get in touch with and interview Fe_lie...
Maryland native and fabulous singer/songwriter Lindsey Jordan, aka Snail Mail, dazzled Richmond this past Friday evening with a dreamy set for the celebration tour of their brilliant new record, Valentine. Their performance at The National was originally scheduled to take place last November, only two weeks after Valentine's release. The need to...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, August 28, 8 PMKidz At Play @ The Camel - $10 (order tickets HERE)As far as the youth of Richmond are concerned, the local artists with the biggest buzz are the dozen or so members of Kidz At Play, who represent themselves not as a band or a crew but a creative house. If you read our recent feature about the group, you heard...
When I went to interview Jonathan Facka, both Tyler Scheerschmidt and Dillon Douglasson tagged along. They insisted; the two Hourglass Sessions co-founders were both adamant that they wanted to see him. They told me they appreciated the whole-hearted nature of his character. Loading them into my Subaru...
