Lotta Punks for Presents on the lineup this week, and it pairs well with a fantastic show from Richmond’s own McKinley Dixon. Both feel like solid ways to close out these oh so dark nights. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up...
Has this happened to you before? You’re driving with the window down and unexpectedly catch a whiff of something you haven’t heard in a long time. Maybe it’s only a few words of the chorus. Maybe it’s the end of a weeping guitar solo. Maybe you don’t even completely catch the song, but something goes in your ear and sticks to something else. That...
Range: Hotspit’s got it. The Richmond-based rock band can turn on a dime dynamically, letting a muted, ethereal exploration explode at a moment's notice, or building from quiet to full-tilt catharsis during songs that unfold with great deliberation. The patience and the payoff are rewarding in equal measure. Hotspit also has geographical...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, January 29, 7 PMLast Minute Fest!, feat. The Mitras, Nancy Raygun, Halfcast, Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers, Dead Billionaires, Ten Pound Snail, Dead Rising, Big Loud Awful Sound @ The Camel - $10 in advance, $12 day of show (order tickets HERE)Every week, no matter how much I intend not to, I end up starting the column...
There's so much. So much more than even I knew when we started this whole process. I keep sending myself emails in the middle of the night with one or two more bands to add. We're looking at going at least nine installments for this series at this point. Luckily for you, we're parceling them out at a rate of about one a week, so that you aren't...
He pulled his Ford F-150 in front of the Starbucks on Robinson Street like it was some kind of mobile command unit. Loud music getting louder from a few blocks down. I knew who it was before he got there. We’ve acted this scene out more times than I could try to invent for an article. You can almost see it: Adam pulling up in front of wherever,...
Hip hop is the only genre of music you will ever hear described as a game. The way people talk about "running the rap game," you'd almost think it was a sport. Here's the thing: it is, kind of. Or at least, it kind of started out as one. And here in Richmond, some of the most talented artists, creatives, movers and shakers are working together to...
On their latest EP, Moon Maniac, Richmond metallic punk quartet 3:33 explore the horrors of modern life between falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes about true crime, serial killers, and beer. Always beer. There used to be a crew of hardcore kids around the central Virginia area who called themselves the 333 crew, by which they meant they were...
FEATURED SHOWFriday, January 21, 9 PMSexbruise? @ The Camel - $10 in advance, $12 day of show (order tickets HERE)I keep telling myself, week after week, that I'm not going to start the column this week by talking about the pandemic. And then I find myself, week after week, having to do so. Why am I bringing it up this week? Well, just to give...
Richmond duo Digital Hell makes distorted, foreboding noise and discusses heady philosophical concepts, but if you ask them, they're really just making pop music. I was greeted by a joyful character with a teddy-bear beanie covering her long black locs. "What's good!!! You're finally here!" she said, as she gave me a friendly hug. This is...
