Editor's Note: Looking to get coverage for your music? We have a submission form. Take a minute to tell us about your project so we can better plan our editorial coverage. You can find the form HERE. Pretty guitar sounds all over the place. Country, indie, psyche...
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...
FEATURED SHOWBlood Night II, Take Two Times TwoFriday, June 24, 7 PMDiet Blood, Dark Waters, Heavy Is the Head, Bodyshell, Dead FormatSaturday, June 25, 7 PMDiet Blood, Two Cars, Terror Cell, TVLPA, Baby Age@ Garden Grove Brewing - Free!It's summertime! And oh, if only the living were easy. On top of every other terrible thing going on in the...
We're going to have to cop a bit of a latepass on this one, since it's actually been out for a few weeks now, but really, is there ever a bad time to discover a new single by Richmond indie rockers Spooky Cool? "Time Will Tell" is their first new release since 2018's Every Thing Ever EP, and is also the first single from their forthcoming LP,...
With the major shift in music since the start of the pandemic, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the music coming out. Here in Richmond there is a very deep underground part of the city if you know how to find it. That's where you'll find King Kaiju. King Kaiju is one of those people keeping Richmond hip hop on the map, as it should...
