February 2012
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WatchLightfields - Something Else EP
The guys in Lightfields have gotten an EP together with the help of Black Girls’ Drew Gillihan on the mixing board. The three songs fuse the right amount of Pavement with a little bit of Robert Smith’s vocals in lead singer Coldon Martin’s sound. Gritty electronics and ringing guitars (C.J. Rosati) take their songs to higher levels of...
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WatchHot Dolphin - first show @ Cous Cous, 2-23-12
Recorded by PJ Sykes (Hoax Hunters)
Hot Dolphin is a new band made up of husband-wife Tyrannosaurus Awesome team Robert Barrow and Allison Hancock as well as the drumming skills of Tim Falen (The Diamond Center, Hoax Hunters, and prob more) and frontwoman Lindsey Spurrier.
Keep checking their facebook for upcoming shows.
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WatchThe Hot Seats - “Hard Working Man”
This is a single from The Hot Seats’ newest set of recordings, purported to be out soon. This tune describes the band perfectly, because each member works tirelessly in pursuit of their musical goals. Right now, for instance, Josh Bearman is working on a side project with Alison Self entitled Sweet Fern (pictured below). They had to scrap a...
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Martin Agency X Mondial
blaaahg:
Big ups to our homie Matthew “Chewy” Macdonald and our friends at Mondail for putting together this video for BF Goodrich and getting Long “Jawns” and Billy the Gent to do the track. Pretty awesome.
RVA peeps getting ish done.
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WatchJake Mayday - First Arrows EP
Jake Mayday is heading on acoustic punk tour with P.O.O.P.S. and has a new EP to share along the way. Catch his EP release show tonight (that’s right, 2/24) @ Church of Abe.
$5, 8pm
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WatchShift - Commercial Free Content [Mixtape]
Hard 2 Kill Records just released Shift’s Mixtape, Commercial Free Content. Shift is the stage name for Justin Rice. Check out “One By One” and “Soul,” two standout tracks.
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WatchThe Horn RVA Presents: Vol. 1
The Horn is a really cool music blog made up of kids from VCU. They JUST RELEASED this compilation of Richmond bands called The Horn RVA Presents: Vol. 1. Some of the bands included are well-known and loved like Hold Tight!, The Diamond Center, Black Girls, Hex Machine….and then there are some ones that you might not have heard. For me that was Night Idea,...
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Bermuda Triangles - “Black Knight...
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PALINDRONE: UPCOMING ANTLERS SHOWS →
palindrone:
TONIGHT @ THE NILE
FIRE BISON ANTLERS CAVES CAVERNS Free/21+ Doors open 10P http://www.facebook.com/events/372332672778014/?ref=ts
FEB 27th @ STRANGE MATTER Antlers ~ local saviors of high rock ~ www.antlersrva.wordpress.com Boas ~ pre-apocalyptic alien ballads ~ www.boas.bandcamp.com …
Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie: PJ Sykes of Hoax Hunters →
hoaxhunters:
“Besides being an avid music enthusiast through his label and a dedicated photographic archivist, the one creative outlet that may come as a shock to a few is as a musician.”
very interesting and cool Richmonder!
Free Show @ Nile Tonight
rumorsownsyou:
See you there…
THE HYPE IS REAL: BUCKY LEWIS (WORTHLESS JUNK):... →
Check out The Cheats Movement interview with Bucky of Worthless Junk Records!
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WatchThe Diamond Center - “California”
Funny/Not Funny Records is set to release the new 7” from The Diamond Center called California/Bells. “California” is dream-like and wonderful, and I cannot wait to hear it on vinyl along with “Bells.” Those who pre-order this 7” will be entered into a drawing to win the test pressing of the record!
See the...
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WatchREVIEW - RPG - High Loathsome
Forget what you thought you knew about Richmond’s RPG. Their new record, High Loathsome, is more of a piece of iconic Americana, punk and rock and roll. From Pink Floyd to Townes Van Zandt, the album’s influences and style reflect that of frontman Matt Conner. The band rallied friends, family and fans to help make this album on 12” vinyl via...
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WatchOccultist - Hell By Our Hands
RVA’s deathcrust Occultist just released a new EP, Hell By Our Hands. They will have their demo on tape for their upcoming tour with Ghoul. Lots of bands seem to be going back to tapes these days. It’s neat I guess but as I’ve heard Greta Brinkman mention, she can’t play those on the air. Wanna get played, gotta stay digital. Occultist...
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WatchLocal celebrity and WRIR DJ, Greta Brinkman (Druglord, White Cross) has started a new radio show on the third Saturday of the month featuring LOCAL RVA bands called “Locals Only.” The band plays a few songs and then Greta spins some of the greatest new music RVA has to offer.
This past Saturday Greta featured Promethean, pictured below, a trio of saxophone, drums and guitar...
THIRD WAVE OF BANDS. HOLY...
macrock:
We heard you. We get it, you want us to release more bands. Well we have more. AND THEY’RE SO SICK AAAHHH OH MY GAAAHD!
Here you go you little bloodsucking music fiends:
Hunx and his punx
Heavy Cream
Cough
Internal Void
Ramming Speed
Timbre
La Des Les
Just soak that in for a second and then faint and then wake up and then ask yourself, “wait… was that a dream?”
No, it...
Road Soda by Les La Britanica
blaaahg:
Some next level stuff going on here….
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WatchPrecious Fluids- Big Man on Campus EP
This wet snow is no reason to miss tonight’s (Sunday, 2/19) show @ Cellar Door. The Precious Fluids have just released this EP, and I hear they put on a heck of a show. This show tonight is their first with new drummer, Bill. They are joined by:
Chris Staples (Seattle singer/songwriter)
Ghost Lotion (RVA pop)
Heavy Midgets (RVA grunge, pictured...
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