RVA's Brief Lives, who have been struggling over the past several months to lock down a permanent singer, hit the jackpot earlier this year when they responded to a Craigslist ad from a singer seeking a band. RVA's Brief Lives, who have been struggling over the past...
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...
Harrisonburg, Virginia’s Malatese make tense and discomfiting music. Combining the lockstep acid-washed grooves of acts like Can and their kraut rock brethren with a manic postpunk frenzy, the band’s sound teeters between moments of sheer rock and roll chaos and terse...
As we found out last Friday, the Foo Fighters are coming to RVA as the result of a successful crowdfunding campaign. This is certainly the first time action of this kind has been successful locally--but we can't imagine it'll be the last. So who should the people of...
Bastard Sapling, the enigmatic local black metal quintet who first drew widespread attention with their 2012 debut full-length Dragged From Our Restless Trance, are preparing to release a followup, and in order to herald its arrival, have just released a new track....