Tom Applegate is a super nice guy and, by all accounts, an excellent teacher of second graders. Recently retired, he has returned to his roots as a punk. Back in 1976, he started his own punk band, L'Amour, whose complete discography was recently reissued by local...
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...
L’Amour was one of the first punk bands to come out of Richmond, Virginia. Now, nearly forty years later, a collection of the band’s recordings is being released on local label Beach Impediment Records. Look to the Artist: 1978 - 1981 is an anthology that includes the...
All the young and not-so-young punks need to be paying attention for this one. It’s yet another installment of Strange Matter’s Locals Only series, and this one features some punk-as-fuck tuneage from a variety of different scenes and eras of Richmond punk history....
FEATURED SHOW Friday, November 24 - Sunday, November 26, 7 PM all three nights J Roddy Walston & The Business 3 Night Stand, feat. The Trillions (Fri), Spooky Cool (Sat), Sleepwalkers (Sun) @ The Broadberry - $25 in advance/$30 day of show (order tickets HERE)...