I am having one of those weeks where I fall absolutely head over heels in love with music and listening to these bands has done absolute wonders. Seeing Palmyra last week has me back on the grass (the blue kind) which could not line up better with the upcoming Brown’s...
Nine:Fifteen - Electric Blanket (Candlewax) To provide context for this album, I made up a history involving a paranoid UPS third-shift worker, Prince with a stethoscope, a Clinton-era dorm dweller with Beck’s Odelay on repeat, a child giving a rapper a concussion while attempting a “Hong Kong Phooey” jumpkick, getting booted from KMD for...
FEATURE SHOW Friday, December 21 & Saturday, December 22 SKALIDAYS 2012 Day 1 (Friday, 21st) 6 p.m. The Pietasters, Murphy's Kids, Elby Brass, Herro Sugar @ Strange Matter - $15/All Ages SKALIDAYS 2012 Day 2 (Saturday, 22nd) 6 p.m. Murphy's Kids (pictured above by Mary Jacobs), Patent Pending, Tsunami Rising, Eastern Standard Time, Aquafuture @...
Prolific RVA record label Worthless Junk, who have previously released albums by such RVA music scene luminaries as Black Girls, No BS! Brass Band, The Trillions, White Laces, and quite a few others, are currently engaged in an ambitious effort to release vinyl LPs by three different RVA bands--Cheyenne, Shy Low, and Way Shape Or Form--at the...
While music journalists are busy preparing and publishing their Best-Of music lists for the year, bands are frantically releasing music before the final toll of 2012. This may complicate certain lists that had been prepared far in advance, but it only means good things while the glut of Christmas music is in the air. While music journalists are...
Down - Down IV: The Purple EP (Down Records/Independent Label Group) New Orleans metal supergroup (consisting of current and former members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, and Eyehategod) is back with their first (of four EPs to be released over the course of the next year or so) new recording since the stellar Over the Under in the...
For the past two years, I have spent the beginning of my year organizing a fundraiser for WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. It is entitled WRIR and The Commonwealth of Notions Presents. For the past two years, I have spent the beginning of my year organizing a fundraiser for WRIR Richmond Independent Radio. It is entitled WRIR and The Commonwealth...
As part of our continuing series of compilations featuring local music curated by local bloggers, today RVA Magazine presents RVA Hot Sauce: The Mixtape, Vol. 1, compiled by The Cheats Movement. Featuring cover art by Hamilton Glass (as seen above), the mixtape also features contributions by 11 different RVA hip hop artists, all of whom had a big...
We sense something at least slightly off-kilter about the opening minutes of the self-titled debut album from The Chaw. It’s not off-kilter in an unpleasant way – it’s more of an indication of a certain nerve-wracking, jittery, “is-this-train-going-to-jump-the-tracks?” darkness that informs the album as a whole. We sense something at least...
Ladies and gentlemen, we present Sounds Of RVA's Party Hard mixtape, the latest installment of RVA Magazine's compilation series featuring Richmond music curated by Richmond bloggers. Richmond is no stranger to partying, and so we thought we would do it up right with a mix to serve as soundtrack for your next holiday party. Ladies and gentlemen,...
