A conversation with Høly River and Richmond artist Sarah Aha on the making of “Day is Born” Shortly after the year 2026 began and 5 years in the making Høly River released their new album Day is Born. I was able to sit at Earthfolk, a central point in community...
Christopher Adkins Stone, otherwise known as CAS, requested that I meet him at his Richmond townhome on a rainy Monday afternoon. I was greeted at the door by his roommate and bass player in his backing band, Tien. He showed me into a living room lined with dividers emblazoned with east Asian inspired artwork. CAS emerged from his studio in the...
Klogg Wallabee and I used to work together at a gas station. If you caught him in the right kinda light, Klogg looked like he could’ve played Sean Astin’s cousin in some movie. He had a shitty sedan with a dent in the side, a bunch of trash in the back and on the floorboards. Cigarette butts and soda bottles, single socks, pistachio shells, and...
You get 15 minutes sometimes. Sometimes it’s 20-30. Most of the time someone from their management company or record label connects the call. This is relatively easy. It’s often you get just the allotted amount of time, and maybe a few minutes more. Typically, the artist has a few interviews scheduled for that day already, or they’re on tour and...
Almost exactly one year ago, Richmond grunge-rockers Gnawing released their first LP, You Freak Me Out. If you remember last July (I wouldn't blame you if you didn't... for the past couple of years, all the months have felt kind of the same), the live music world was just starting to come back online, and the entire world was dealing with...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, July 9, 7:30 PMMs. Jaylin Brown, Rebekah Rafferty and The Wakes, Kenneka Cook @ Gallery 5 - $10 (order tickets HERE)Music is too damn predictable sometimes. It might not seem that way to you, the casual reader of this column, but when you spend eight years of your life doing deep dives into the work of something like five...
As I rounded the corner to meet up with some members of No BS! Brass at Minimum Wage, an Oregon Hill music studio, I was greeted by Reggie Pace coming out of a small white bus parked on the curb. He ushered me towards a modest two-story building I had seen many times but never taken the time to consider. Opening a gate, he lead me down a...
Folks, if you're not paying attention to what Richmond vocalist, poet, and writer extraordinaire Ryan Kent is up to by now, you're really overdue for a wakeup call on that one. And Dying Comes With Age, Kent's debut solo album, is the perfect thing to give it to you. You might be familiar with Ryan Kent's name already. He's previously supplied...
FEATURED SHOWFriday, July 1, 5 PMBio Ritmo, The Sweet Potatoes @ Gallery 5 - Free!Summer is officially here, folks, and with the temperatures and the humidity on the rise, the time is perfect for some hot music. Bio Ritmo's been serving up that exact sort of thing here in Richmond for over 30 years now, and hearing their salsa music right now...
The first time I heard Cannibal Corpse was in a movie theater on the Dahlgren Naval Base in Dahlgren, Virginia. It was Opening Day for King George Little League, and festivities were held at the field just beyond the armed-guard checkpoint. I was there hours before my team’s game started, just like a lot of other 11-year-olds excited to play...
