FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, November 24, 8 p. m.
WRIR Benefit featuring The Technical Jed, Lorem Ipsum, The New Messengers @ The Camel - $5/18+
Clancy Fraher returns to Richmond with his band The Technical Jed. For those entrenched in Richmond music history, you might remember the Technical Jed was the indie rock band before indie rock, from right here in Richmond in the early nineties.
Since Fraher moved to Chicago, the Technical Jed fizzled out, and the fellas went their separate ways with different musical endeavors. Well, you can come home again, literally and figuratively. The Technical Jed are back at it, thank goodness, and will play this show with their good friends Lorem Ipsum, who are also comprised of Richmond music heroes. Lorem Ipsum comes from the ashes of More Fire for Burning People and Lazy Cain. If you were into those Richmond stalwarts back in the day, then you will love The Technical Jed. When you think The Technical Jed, think Richard Hell. When you think Lorem Ipsum, think how the way post-hardcore should be played. And on top of all this, we also get The New Messengers--Clancy Fraher's current project, which also features Joe Nio of fellow early-90s Richmond indie heroes The Seymores. Whoa!
This should be an historical evening. I’m already there.
Wednesday, November 21, 9 p.m.
Virulence featuring DJ Prototype_IX @ Fallout– Free (No membership needed) / 18+
The night before Thanksgiving you should do something completely different. A night of dancing to coldwave and industrial grooves draped in metal calls. Get out the stress of living in this crazy world of ours, which doesn't necessarily deserve giving thanks to, and jive turkey your way down to Shockoe Bottom. Fallout always has the best deejays, and DJ Prototype_IX is no exception. For fans of Fallout’s Sacrosanct, you are already fully aware of this industrial maestro spinning the gore for those on the floor.
Thursday, November 22, All Day
Sleep in, eat a bunch of food, ponder over what we as Americans actually did to the Native Americans, ignore the family, watch VCU play Memphis in basketball at 7 p.m. on the NBC Sports Network, and then finish the day by renting or streaming the 2005 Georgian suspense thriller film 13 Tzameti.
Friday, November 23, 10 p.m.
Napalm Death, Municipal Waste, Exhumed, Speedwolf @ Kingdom - $15/18+
Holy Walnut Alley! Is this show the true meaning of Black Friday or what? This juggernaut has everything in store in regards to good old fashioned hardcore anarcho-punk thrown in with thrash metal. Napalm Death, the longtime warriors that they are, are doing it again. Yes, there are no original members currently in the band; yet the current lineup has been a part of the band long enough to still jam the hardcore death metal-punk on the one.
Joining this melee will be Richmond’s own Municipal Waste. The Waste continues to gain legions of followers worldwide, but there is no love like the love from your hometown. Tony and the boys make their triumphant return to a Richmond stage this Friday night with all the fabulous thrash metal you can take. Their shows are disgustingly scenic and more fun than a threesome at midnight.
The death metal band Exhumed, who are currently signed to Relapse, along with the pure metal force of Colorado’s Speedwolf, open this bargain basement of madness. How in the hell do you miss this show? You don’t. This show is a possible sellout; however, you still better make it a point to attend if you can get in, or at least stand in the Alley to listen. Wow! I can’t keep my hair down just thinking about this shindig.
Friday, Nomvember 23, 10 p.m.
Hi-Steps, DJ Mike Murphy @ Balliceaux $5/21+
Where’s the party at? It’s at the nearest Hi Steps show. Oh my, this dandy of a band comprised of some of the best funky musicians this side of the Byrd Field is back on Lombardy Street tonight. Hi Steps will help you lose those pounds you gained at the Thanksgiving dinner table yesterday with their hits--and, as they put it, the hits you didn't know about. Hi Steps know all too well music is about partying, dancing, and love. Balliceaux is the perfect spot for that, I tell you.
Hi-Steps are Brittany O'Neill – Vocals, Brian Mahne – Keys, Jason Scott – Saxophone, Bob Miller- Trumpet, Stefan Demetriadis – Trombone, Cameron Ralston – Bass, and last but not least, Pinson Chanselle – Drums. This outfit is a 60's and 70's soul music revue brought to you by the aforementioned who’s who of Richmond musicians, who were inspired by their love and enjoyment of this genre of music to deliver it live, straight to your ear. You’re out of control; you’re at a Hi Steps show.
Sunday, November 25, 5 p.m.
Joey Molinaro, Suppression, Valerie Kuehne, Head Molt, Hear Hums, projections by Lord Candy Dish @ Strange Matter - $5/All Ages
Okay, you just wasted time at church. Now, the real religious studies begin. All praise the performance of sound, echoes, strings, kickboxing, noise, fizz, psychotic images, and all out ear joy.
Composer, violinist, and fiddler Joey Molinaro is in town and yes, he’s the same Joey Molinaro from Basilica. As a solo artist, Molinaro is a two-boot foot percussionist meshed with said violin/fiddle. According to Malinaro, his set often includes seventeen discordance-axis-inspired songs, overdriven by poetry, and electronics. What a showman. A hippie, this guy isn’t.
Those manic street preachers, Suppression, are back on Grace Street this evening, performing songs from their earlier days when Suppression was based out of the Star City. And, just when you thought a cello couldn’t rock out the freakiness, Valerie Kuehne delivers her lovely songs accompanied by a psych-metal-sounding cello. Performance art just got all performance and shit. My head is where my ass cheeks should be, and my ass cheeks are where my face should be.
Holy bartenders! There’s more. Yes, Gainesville’s Hear Hums have joined this cult with their psychedelic percussions of grandeur. Also, not to be outdone, Richmond, via Hampton, Virginia, gets represented with Head Molt getting all weird and frantic, like a beaver cutting through a dam. Those projections you’ll see during this escapade will of course from none other than my man Lord Candy Dish. Religion suddenly got preternatural, and I worship it, so should you.
Monday, November 26, 8 p.m.
Austin Lucas, Josh Small, Harris Mendell, Julie Karr @ The Camel - $5/All Ages
After Breaking Away, what does Bloomington, Indiana really bring us? I've got it! Folk punk singer-songwriter Austin Lucas. This man has a voice wider than an Indiana corn field. It’s a divine get up-stand up kind of voice that is sure to turn us all into Hoosiers.
Looking for more singer songwriters with a passion for stampeding a guitar all the while making love to a microphone? Well, you've found em, as Richmonders Josh Small, Harris Mendell, and the exquisite Julie Karr round out this bill of harmonizing angst only to be adored.
Folk can get punk, as proven here tonight, so get back into the week with music literally from the heart. Where there's pain or pleasure, these musicians have that special way of bringing the two and making your presence felt as well as theirs.
Tuesday, November 27, 9 p.m
Silo Effect @ The Camel– Free/18+
Silo Effect end their Tuesdays-in-November residency at The Camel tonight in what is sure to be a flat out hoedown. Get out the dancing shoes from the back corner of your closet and run, don’t walk, to hear this inspiring progressive jam band with electronic space-out tendencies to get you right. If this band doesn’t get you moving then I don’t know what will.
By the way, this progressive rock disco will be more of an event than just a show. Let the Silo Effect affect the way you deal with the miserable holidays. Is there any other band out there in Richmond that can turn that frown upside down?
By John Lewis Morgan (onewayrichmond.com)