So, it’s New Year’s Eve. The drinks are poured, the fireworks are loaded, and before the clock strikes midnight, let’s take a moment to sift through the rubble of the year that was. Richmond in 2024—messy, beautiful, endlessly fascinating. Thanks for sticking with us...
Now when I saw weird, I mean it in the nicest way imaginable - seriously, like how people say "keep Portland weird," I like to say "the folk festival makes RVA weird." Now when I saw weird, I mean it in the nicest way imaginable - seriously, like how people say "keep Portland weird," I like to say "the folk festival makes RVA weird." I don't have...
Local indie-rock band Positive No have made a strong and, um, positive impression on the Richmond scene ever since they started playing out, and their debut EP, Via Florum, was one of the best releases to come out of RVA in 2013 according to our own Shannon Cleary (and he's right). Now, the first new song since the band's debut EP proves that...
I'm sure all you fans of the modern bluegrass revival are still feeling the buzz from the Old Crow Medicine Show gig at Maymont on Sunday, but don't let the party end just yet, because Yonder Mountain String Band is coming to Charlottesville at the end of the month, and you could see them for free! I'm sure all you fans of the modern bluegrass...
In a spectacle as grand and theatrical as the man himself, Dave Brockie, better known as Oderus Urungus, was sent off in a Viking funeral at Hadad’s Lake in Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony, held during the 2014 GWAR B-Q, saw Brockie’s stage-worn Oderus Urungus costume set ablaze on a boat, launched into the lake, and ignited with a flaming...
Belgium is likely not the first place that one thinks of when it comes to origin points for heavy music, but Oathbreaker, from Ghent, Belgium, put out one of the most under-recognized and freshest-sounding releases in terms of hardcore and metal last year in the form of Eros|Anteros. Belgium is likely not the first place that one thinks of when...
This weekend's GWARBQ was incredible - the music, the crowd, the GWARBeer, and the feeling of being a part of real memorial for a rock-god created the perfect end of summer party. Read more about GWARBQ, Dave Brockie, and how and why this event happens here. Here's a few photos and videos from the memorial held last Friday. We'll have much more...
Old Crow Medicine Show are from Nashville, but their fusion of old-time country, bluegrass, and folk sounds is far from the typical sound coming out of Music City. Their newest album, Remedy, promises more folk twang and foot-stomping melodies than ever before. Ahead of their visit to Maymont this Sunday, August 17th, the humble and talented...
Sleaze - Summer Fresh XE (BlocSonic) All jokes aside, Sleaze is one of my heroes--one of the artists in this city who has inspired me and forced me to grow. His most recent project, Heavenly Devilish, is some of the best music to come out of this city, and if you haven't heard it you are seriously missing out. Sleaze - Summer Fresh XE (BlocSonic)...
Local math-rockers Fight Cloud, and really the entire Subterranea Collective, have had quite a productive 2014 so far. The four volumes of Subterranea's Between The Two digital series of splits released in May, one of which featured Fight Cloud (see Bandcamp for details), were quite impressive, and this loose-knit crew of indie rockers show no...
