Since 2013, New York based group Deli Girls have established an electrifying, riotous legacy that dares to not only call out injustice by name, but to scream it from the rooftops. Deli Girls’ founder, Danny Orlowski, has served as the fiery vocal centerpiece for...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, January 29, 7 PMLast Minute Fest!, feat. The Mitras, Nancy Raygun, Halfcast, Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers, Dead Billionaires, Ten Pound Snail, Dead Rising, Big Loud Awful Sound @ The Camel - $10 in advance, $12 day of show (order tickets HERE)Every week, no matter how much I intend not to, I end up starting the column...
There's so much. So much more than even I knew when we started this whole process. I keep sending myself emails in the middle of the night with one or two more bands to add. We're looking at going at least nine installments for this series at this point. Luckily for you, we're parceling them out at a rate of about one a week, so that you aren't...
He pulled his Ford F-150 in front of the Starbucks on Robinson Street like it was some kind of mobile command unit. Loud music getting louder from a few blocks down. I knew who it was before he got there. We’ve acted this scene out more times than I could try to invent for an article. You can almost see it: Adam pulling up in front of wherever,...
Hip hop is the only genre of music you will ever hear described as a game. The way people talk about "running the rap game," you'd almost think it was a sport. Here's the thing: it is, kind of. Or at least, it kind of started out as one. And here in Richmond, some of the most talented artists, creatives, movers and shakers are working together to...
On their latest EP, Moon Maniac, Richmond metallic punk quartet 3:33 explore the horrors of modern life between falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes about true crime, serial killers, and beer. Always beer. There used to be a crew of hardcore kids around the central Virginia area who called themselves the 333 crew, by which they meant they were...
FEATURED SHOWFriday, January 21, 9 PMSexbruise? @ The Camel - $10 in advance, $12 day of show (order tickets HERE)I keep telling myself, week after week, that I'm not going to start the column this week by talking about the pandemic. And then I find myself, week after week, having to do so. Why am I bringing it up this week? Well, just to give...
Richmond duo Digital Hell makes distorted, foreboding noise and discusses heady philosophical concepts, but if you ask them, they're really just making pop music. I was greeted by a joyful character with a teddy-bear beanie covering her long black locs. "What's good!!! You're finally here!" she said, as she gave me a friendly hug. This is...
On Time Is The Price, Blackliq's first release for Sage Francis's Strange Famous Records, the veteran Richmond MC lays out his dark history, his bright future, and his methods for hacking life -- all overtop of the best production he's received in his career thus far. I've always enjoyed the work Blackliq, aka Black Liquid, does as an MC. I've...
So here's what happened: we compiled our original list -- which ran to 175 bands, give or take -- from suggestions dropped into Reddit threads, group texts, and email lists. The original plan had been to create a list of 100 great Richmond bands, and at first no one thought we'd come up with that many. Hahahahahaha. Once it became clear that we...
