It’s here, it’s here! But don’t buy your plane tickets yet, RVA music fans–I’m not at all sure this year’s Coachella lineup will be worth the thousand bucks or so you’ll have to shell out in order to attend.
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RVA Magazine’s Top 25 of 2014, Part 1: Introduction & Honorable Mentions
Forget the holidays – this is the most wonderful time of the year for music fans, as publications churn out their year-end lists that inevitably invoke some rage, but also offer up a good amount of stuff to discover or re-visit. We here at RVA Magazine are no different, and are going to spend this week unveiling our top 25 albums of the year and, new for this year, our top five Richmond releases of 2014.
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Jack White’s Lazaretto Is More Complex But Sometimes Less Interesting Than Previous Work
Lazaretto is Jack White’s latest step toward a fuller, denser sound. named after the Italian word for a leper’s hospital, Lazaretto (Third Man/Columbia) showcases some of White’s most complex work yet, though much of it suffers from overproduction and under-reflection.