“Finally I can see it, these birds not meant to fly alone.” These lyrics from Turnstile’s new song “Birds” would define their set at Wyman Dell Park. Last month, Turnstile made their triumphant return to their hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. The band organized a free...
Sophia Nadia, aloft on a Reston, Virginia garage rooftop, was holding her acoustic guitar, working through new songs that would be the material for Richmond favorite, Cold Beaches’ https://www.facebook.com/coldbeachesmusic next release, when a security guard came walking by. “You can’t do that,” he said. Nadia reasoned with Officer Sourpuss. “Ya’...
When you recall memories associated with falling in love, what is the first thing to come to mind? Is it the whimsical conversations that fall into place with an unexpected ease? Is it the way that one evening can feel like an indulged spirit that intoxicates the memory? Or is it as quaint as the way one feels when they hear their favorite song...
When you recall memories associated with falling in love, what is the first thing to come to mind? Is it the whimsical conversations that fall into place with an unexpected ease? Is it the way that one evening can feel like an indulged spirit that intoxicates the memory? Or is it as quaint as the way one feels when they hear their favorite song...
In my 9th grade art class, my friends Marin and Zach (who knew way cooler music then I did) turned me onto Pedro the Lion. I was given a burnt cd with no album title. It was an epic compilation of gut wrenching songs that helped form the music I produce today - and now I'm opening for the band's frontman at Capital Ale House this Sunday. Bazan's...
For three years, the rowdy, bearded guys that make up the band Dharma Bombs have brought RVA feet-stompin’, booty-shakin’, whiskey-drinking party tunes with their fusion of blues, folk, and swing, a genre they refer to as Appalachian Dixieland. But the group has been toiling away on their latest effort, Old Time Romance, their first full length...
Richmond is getting doused in sludge on August 8 when The Melvins grace The Broadberry with their brand of punk jams. The Melvins, forming in the 1980s, have been a staple of punk music since riding the waves of Washington grunge popularity into national embrace. The Melvins, not far from their 2016 release, Basses Loaded, an album featuring a...
If you could tune out cheers from the sold out crowd, PJ Harvey’s stop in Richmond felt distinctly funereal. But as it was, it seemed a darkly joyful proceeding, an end-of-the-world party with Harvey and her nine piece band as the horsemen ushering in the demise of all things. The National was among the band’s first stops touring off of her...
Sonic Youth Frontman Thurston Moore might be the closest thing we've got to a living poet and noise rock legend (even if the band's breakup might have left everyone's head spinning). But even if you walked away thinking he was an asshole, it would still be neat to see him at the tiny Rock and Roll hotel up in DC on his tour for Rock N Roll...
It’s been a long, winding road for Those Manic Seas but after more than seven years the band is set to release their first full length LP, Telegenic. “This band and evolved and changed a lot,” said Daniel Medley, the drummer and manager for the band. Medley has since moved to Nashville, TN, and the rest of the band’s current lineup - Drew Rollo...
