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...
The National wasn't exactly packed when Swedish guitar maestro Yngwie Malmsteen hit town on a recent Sunday night. But Ryan Kent was there, and he brings us back this report of stellar Stratocaster shredding. It would’ve killed us all had it made impact. Twenty-seven years ago in San Diego, California at the Palomar Observatory, the late American...
Philly shoegazers Nothing will be coming to Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House on Tuesday, bringing some unlikely holiday harmonies along with their haze of melodic guitar noise. As breaks from the holiday madness go, this should be a particularly refreshing one. The Christmas season can be a tough time, especially if you struggle to come...
We all know how tough it can be to get someone a really great gift, especially if you don't want to just order some mass consumer product from an online mega-retailer. This year, though, Kieran Cleary has a locally-oriented solution -- give the gift of music. One piece of music in particular, in fact: the latest album from Harrisonburg's The...
FEATURED SHOWPunks For Presents 2021Night One: Friday, December 10, 8 PMImaginary Toys, X-Mas, Toy Division @ Wonderland - $10 (order tickets HERE)Night Two: Saturday, December 11, 7 PMBouncing Coals, It's A Wonderful Lifetime, Santa Day Real Estate, International Superheroes of Glory @ Fuzzy Cactus - $10 (order tickets HERE)The holiday season is...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, December 4, 7 PMColin Phils, Houdan The Mystic, The Late Virginia Summers, Shapes In The Water @ Black Iris - $6 (order tickets HERE)It sure is nice to see local music surviving and thriving in our post(?)-pandemic world. Live music shutting down completely for a year caused a lot of chaos for a lot of bands in this world,...
FEATURED SHOWFriday, November 26, 9 PMButcher Brown, Michael Millions, Chance Fischer, Teddy Belafonte @ The Camel - $15 (Order tickets HERE)Saturday, November 27, 9 PMButcher Brown & Nigel Hall, Sam Reed, Kenneka Cook, Charles Owens @ The Camel - $15 (Order tickets HERE)Folks, the holidays are here, and it's time to give thanks. And here in...
When George Wethington headed to the Broadberry for an early November evening of live music, he was thinking about the aging process -- specifically as it applied to him. He applied those reflections to appraisals of headliners the Districts, Atlanta artist Girlpuppy, and Richmond-based openers SHE. Some fared better than others. Back in my day...
With Everyone A Song, Volume Two, Harrisonburg's The Steel Wheels bring us their second collection of songs commissioned by fans -- a collection that reveals the difficult emotions and deep sentiments that lie at the heart of ordinary human experience. The rustic jangle of the banjo leads us into the beginning of the new record by the Steel...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, November 20, 6:30 PMThe Fall Of Troy, Strawberry Girls, Kaonashi, Satyr @ The Canal Club - $25 in advance, $30 day of show (order tickets HERE)Most music in the world fits into nice, neat categories. And that can be fine a lot of the time; whether you're into indie, pop-punk, or vaporwave, it can be nice to hear about a new...
