The Canal Club, long known for hosting some of the city’s heaviest shows, hosted Obituary a few nights ago. The death metal titans shook the walls of the club in a blistering set that photographer Vincent Candela captured in a brilliant set of images. For those that...
Fall Line Fest debuted in Richmond this past weekend with concerts across four venues, food specials at several restaurants, and art showings across the city. Fall Line Fest debuted in Richmond this past weekend with concerts across four venues, food specials at several restaurants, and art showings across the city. Richmond's tried for a while...
Ulcerate – Vermis (Relapse Records) It's difficult to ignore the extent to which 2013 has been something of a high water mark in the recent history of death metal, with bands like Autopsy, Exhumed, and most notably Carcass unleashing their work onto a genre that had become overburdened with sterile-sounding nth-generation Suffocation clones and...
Ever since their inception in 1997, Pig Destroyer have been a band that breaks down genre barriers, reinvents themselves on each new album, and generally doesn’t give a damn what people think of them. Starting out in the DIY underground scene, playing small sweaty shows in DC and Baltimore, the bassless grindcore trio spent their first few years...
“Rap just makes me anxious and acid made me crazy, them squares just made looser and that wax just made me lazy and I still make this song, and I’mma make another…” Chance the Rapper; hailing from Chi-town, has got the masses going crazy over his zany mixtape, Acid Rap, which was released April 30. Chance has surged with a social media buzz he's...
FEATURE SHOW Saturday, September 14, 8 p.m. WDCE presents White Laces (Photo by Patrick Moran), Vince Cane and the Incurables @ UR Tyler Haynes Commons – $12 (UR Students – Free)/All Ages In case you haven’t noticed, Richmond has more than one stellar commercial free independent FM station. The college radio station WDCE - University of Richmond,...
When Fall Line Fest announced their line-up for their inaugural event, there were tons of good bands on the list like Cold Cave and Richmond's own No BS! When Fall Line Fest announced their line-up for their inaugural event, there were tons of good bands on the list like Cold Cave and Richmond's own No BS! Brass Band, but there was just one band...
You're not supposed to be able to have your cake and eat it too. I suppose you could buy two cakes, eat one and put the other on display, but baked goods aren't really the point. You're not supposed to be able to have your cake and eat it too. I suppose you could buy two cakes, eat one and put the other on display, but baked goods aren't really...
Since their formation, The Head And The Heart have been doing big things. Forming in Seattle in 2009, the indie-folk sextet began by recording and releasing their debut album on their own dime and selling an unbelievable 10,000 copies at shows and through local record stores. Seattle label Sub Pop took notice, signing the band and rereleasing...
J. Roddy Walston & The Business - Essential Tremors (ATO Records) At a time when indie dominates the musical conversation and you've got to head for any of at least a dozen subgenres if you actually want to hear distorted guitars, J. Roddy Walston and his band constitute an anomaly. This hirsute quartet of jeans-clad rowdies actually seem to care...
