Negative Creep: Weekend Playlist By Pissing Contest

by | Jul 12, 2019 | MUSIC

Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

Our playlist this week comes to us from Richmond’s own Pissing Contest, whose harsh, angry, yet catchy as hell punk rock stylings distinguish themselves as both blatantly filthy and full of subtle intelligence — as all the best punk bands do. They released their second album, The Fountain (which references both urine and Marcel Duchamp on its cover — I dig it), earlier this year, and this Sunday night will find them releasing a cassette featuring both of their albums, cleverly entitled Pisscography, at Bandito’s.

Learn more about that free show, which also features fellow Richmonders Roy Batty and Weird Tears, here, and while you wait for Sunday night to roll around, spend your weekend punking out and circle-pitting around your backyard to this excellent mix from Pissing Contest. We’d say “to whet your appetite,” but with a name like Pissing Contest, it’s best to keep food-related metaphors far away from the conversation.

Get pissed, Virginia.

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