April 2012
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WatchREVIEW - Wolf//Goat - The//Day//Tripper//Demo
Wolf//Goat brings an interesting mix to Richmond music. The best way to describe the sounds is Satanic orchestral punk. The first track, “Flesh Tones,” combines the “ois” with organic, Americana-signaling banjo. The piece then turns proggy as the drumming crashes, effects razzle, and piano bangs. The vocalist, Ben...
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WatchStonebrook Moonshine - Highway
Stonebrook Moonshine is a gritty Southern rock four-piece, with two of the four having known each other since high school (bassist Drew Kisamore and keyboardist Joel Ingram). A chance jam session with Steven Boone (lead guitar, vox) added the third member, and the first response of a craigslist ad brought about drummer Terrence Kelleher. Everyone is a part of the...
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On the Horizon #6 @ RVA Mag →
See this week’s column loaded with extra awesome.
thanks Joshua Osborne of Subterranea Collective for the sweet logo!
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Richmond Ranks as a Top Music Trend Setter →
My friend, Becca, sent me this link. Richmond ranks pretty high in the chart for indie music and is still holding strong on the all music category. I have, especially recently, been finding tons and tons of fresh hip hop, so I think it’s an oversight that we didn’t place on that table, too.
I’m proud of us, RVA!
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WatchStarfish Prime - “Fine Earth Cuisine”
The Starfish Prime guys are back and ready with a new instrumental jam. There are almost seven minutes of pure post-rock that can either be background music or the soundtrack to six minutes and fifty seconds of your life.
photo by Grace Shue Melon
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Battle of the Bands →
In Your Ear Studios, Plan 9 Music, and Sam Ash Music are sponsoring a Battle of the Bands on 6/2. Winner receives a fully produced album from In Your Ear. Not bad!
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WatchThis Hungry Earth - Curving All Around You
This Hungry Earth has just released a couple songs as a followup to its 1st EP. THE began as a solo side project by Ian Robinson (Energy 2000 and pictured below) when he left for Amsterdam and Scotland to study abroad. Now the band has expanded to four, and the sound has filled out some more.
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WatchTigerlamp - Good Friends in My Head
Get ready for four tracks of atmospheric and hypnotic music done by Reid LaPierre (Houdan the Mystic, Night Idea) as Tigerlamp. They were written, recorded and mastered (by Joshua Osborne of The Subterranea Collective, who also created the cover art) all in one day. There is certainly something to be said about a project that takes such little time to...
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Watchbadgrrrlrecords:
New Video for “Safe on Your Mountaintop” by Heavy Midgets from the new Sisters Split w/ Tungs
Shot and Edited by Zach Caron
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WatchSpringtime - “Closer/Distraction”
This is a video of Springtime from Tuesday’s (4/17) performance at the Camel with Andrew Jackson Jihad, Joyce Manor and Treasure Fleet. This newish band is really hitting its stride right here in the height of Spring. There are a couple more videos on the band’s facebook, so go check those out.
Springtime is playing 4/23 @ Strange...
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WatchPromethean - Snow and Bodies EP
Newish band Promethean has just released a debut EP called Snow and Bodies EP. Keith Paul from Piscean and ex-Dirty Banners is responsible for the compositions plus guitar and keyboards. Matt Wild, ex-Hellbear and Cardinal Compass, plays drums and Alan Simpson (of This Time It’s War) stepped in for most of the bass-work and guitar and keys engineering and...
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WatchTungs - Sisters (One side of a 12” vinyl split with Heavy Midgets)
Tungs and Heavy Midgets have just released a split 12” vinyl preorder on BadGrrrl Records - which means we can hear the songs as a preview and put our names down for the physical copies. You can also get this bad boy on cassette. And of course you will get a couple bonus tracks if you download. Rumor is these cats...
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Watchgalaxygirlradio:
You may remember back in my posting for Show 28 of Janetpalooza that I said this, “Hopefully Silver will post some of his video too, and then I’ll tumble it. That’s his camera that I kept catching in the left of my frame when I panned to Josie.”
Well my friends, he posted that video today. And he didn’t just get 1 song like I did. He recorded the entire performance (and...
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WatchThe Congress - “Whatever You Want”
Although The Congress currently resides in Denver, CO, they got themselves started here in RVA. Now they are about to release their album, Whatever You Want, on May 4.
My boy Dennis Cook at Jambase has had some great things to say about them so that can only mean good things for these guys. Hopefully they will bring a tour through Richmond and...
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WatchClint Maul - New Shit 2012
Clint Maul has been around the scene for a while now and his acoustic sets are quite popular. He has now released a set of new songs. He even steps out from behind his acoustic guitar to create some electronic moments (e.g., “Love Letter”). “Instrumental Weed Jam #2” is the last song of the album and it messes with the fuzz a little bit. The...
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The Trillions - “Win Some Lose Some”
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Watchnaturalscienceproductions:
PLF Full Moon April Foolishness 2012 1st Friday Street Party with
Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Mr Jennings Remix)
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WatchMH - “Where Are You Going? (The Easy Song)”
Maxfield Haag, who sometimes releases music as Meeting House and MH, has recorded a new song with the lovely Meghann Parkinson (pictured below with MH’s live band by Alexandra Dent). I cannot help but envision the talent show scene of Revenge of the Nerds I guess because it’s so 80s. It’s pretty infectious, too.
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