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DAILY RECORD: Street Pizza
Street Pizza - Cancerous Planet (Sympathizer Records) With the unprecedented diffusion of music brought on by the internet, it seems like every minute sub-sub-genre can now experience its fifteen...
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DAILY FIX: Live Performance by Hallogallo 2010
Neu! were a groundbreaking German rock group, active in the early and mid-70s, who have often been credited with the creation of the droning, hypnotic style of music known as Krautrock. Disbanded over...
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zu täuschen den Schutzhund at Reference Gallery
Do you like strange video experimentation? Do you like the internet and wonder how it is affecting your daily perception of reality? If you are looking for answers, you won't find them at the new...
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SHOW REVIEW: Real Talk, Forensics, Pujol
Real Talk, Forensics, and Pujol August 11 at Empire Of the three bands playing the late show at Empire last Wednesday, it was the first band who seemed to generate the most buzz. It was the first show...
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DAILY RECORDS: Make Phantoms, Ratt, Slash, etc.
Make Phantoms - Make Phantoms (Stranger Than Fiction) Make Phantoms are a local group with a keyboard-based, melodic indie sound that, at its best moments, is reminiscent of XTC mixed with Death Cab...
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FILM REVIEW : The Expendables
The Expendables should come with a disclaimer that goes something like this: Warning: The film you are about to see is made for GUYS by GUYS who make movies for GUYS, movies that feature lots of GUYS...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Cannabis Corpse European Tour Video (Part 1)
Cannabis Corpse have just released the first video in a three-part series documenting their European tour, which took place in February of this year. Other than some short clips of plane rides and...
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DAILY RECORDS: Messi, Boas, Tungs
Messi - O (messi.bandcamp.com) The debut album of Chocolate Milk’s Joshua Aidan Padarathsingh, under his latest moniker Messi, finds the former noise artist applying his skill for dissonance and...
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A Silent Music Revival presents The Adventures of Prince Achmed with Dave...
Silent Music Revival is a unique event in the city of Richmond. Once a month this event combines classic silent films with live performances by musicians who have never seen the film. Silent Music...
View ArticleCHPN: Richmond’s worst year?
Great article from the Chuch Hill's People News: Richmond bottomed out in 1994: one city councilman went off to rehab for his heroin problem and another was in hot water for not paying utilities and...
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Sterling Hundley at Ghostprint
Nationally known, locally grown artist Sterling Hundley will be showing for the second time at Ghostprint Gallery in September. He continues his journey away from the clean, strong narratives that...
View ArticleDISINFORMATION: The Price of Truth
Long time RVA contributor Tyler Bass wrote this article for www.disinfo.com. You can read more of his political work at www.spectaclemonopolized.blogspot.com “You’re free, but in your mind, your...
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DAILY RECORDS: Eleven Tigers, Ion Dissonance, Kate Nash, etc.
Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains (Soul Motive) This album combines the best ideas from the past two decades of electronic music--hyperactive drum n' bass beats, Burial's underwater dubstep, plus...
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Amoeba Men "Worried About Your Wiring?" LP Now Available For Free Download!
Worried About Your Wiring, the second Amoeba Men LP, has been made available for free download by their label, CNP Records. It's an accurate representation of The Amoeba Men's live sound, a spastic...
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Godflesh "Streetcleaner" Receives Deluxe Double-Disc Reissue
Twenty-one years after its original release, Godflesh's first full-length album, Streetcleaner, has been reissued in a deluxe two-disc edition that features both a remastered version of the original...
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Old Skool Meets Old Skool, Graffiti In Motion
The decade old animated .gif continues to evolve as the fashion driven designer Insa and street artist Inkie bring a fresh take on an old favorite. Can you see this in an ad somewhere soon?
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Self Titled
There is an appreciation in Richmond for all things independent and the struggle that lies with creating it. Fortunately, we have places like Gallery 5 that continues to be an avenue for under...
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"We Don't Go For Big, We Go For Ridiculous": Best Friends Day 2010
In less than 48 hours, the Ninth Annual Best Friends Day Weekend will begin, kicking off with a Thursday night show at the Bike Lot. Over the course of a long three-day weekend, the festival will...
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DAILY RECORDS: Just Plain Ant, Netherfriends
Just Plain Ant - Rumble, Young Man, Rumble (justplainant.bandcamp.com) Just Plain Sounds’ prolific beat making impresario, Just Plain Ant, returns with a vengeance on his latest guest laden full length...
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HIP-HOP REVIEW: Outasight
OUTASIGHT – Never Say Never mixtape (LRG) ZERO STARS OUT OF FIVE Over the course of this bloated, wildly unnecessary piece of rap/clothing/promotional ephemera, Outasight manages, against all odds, to...
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