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A Fake Homeless Man In A Polar Bear Suit: An Interview With Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins is an American multimedia artist best known for street installations that he creates using packing tape. His humanoid figures in a variety of impossible positions have graced the streets...
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Camp Barefoot 6 Music And Art Festival!
The Camp Barefoot 6 Music and Art Festival will be held again at Camp Hidden Meadows, in Bartow, WV on Thursday, August 23 – Sunday, August 26, 2012. This weekend-long event features some of the top...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: PS I Love You, "Princess Towers"
Here's some heavy, grungy rock n' roll from a Canadian duo that I just discovered this weekend. PS I Love You just released their second LP, Death Dreams, on Paper Bag Records, and now they've released...
View ArticleDAILY RECORD: Beastmilk
Beastmilk – Use Your Deluge (Svart Records) People often start bands like Beastmilk with the intention of using sinister, apocalyptic imagery to shock or unsettle listeners. And while this approach has...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: Joel Salatin At Ellwood Thompson's!
Joel Salatin, the owner of Polyface Farms, located west of Staunton in Augusta County, VA, will be speaking in the Ellwood Thompson's Community Room tomorrow evening at 5:30 PM. Salatin, who raises...
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Photographs of RVA Past: The Adolph B. Rice Studio Collection
Adolph B. Rice was a photographer who owned and operated a commercial studio in Richmond starting in 1949. After his death in 1960, his son Adolph B. Rice Jr. operated the studio until it closed down...
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Sounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon #11
For some people, marriage is the beginning of a new life. For others, marriage only signals the end of something good. There are a few couples who have defied the expectation to become lame and boring...
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TONIGHT: The Santamaria Brothers w/ The Dream Machine At The Republic
Last Wednesday night at The Republic, Radio Rubber Room presented The Dream Machine and ROMA. With TDM guitarist Justin Shear out of town, veteran Yerbian Joe DelMonaco stepped up with his work cut out...
View ArticleRadio Rubber Room EP 64, Featuring Russell Lacy of Grease Trigger
In this episode Russell Lacy made an appearance on the Rubber Room. Russell is the talented front man of Grease Trigger. He played some live cuts from his solo album as well as some acoustic renditions...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Vaudeville Galore Showcase Showdown, May 2012
Todd Raviotta's been doing a great job lately of documenting the local performing arts scene--no mean feat, considering what a hotbed of activity it's been over the last year or so--through still...
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DAILY RECORD: Dope Body
Dope Body - Natural History (Drag City) Dope Body are a four-piece group from Baltimore who present themselves at first as the kind of repetitively pounding, unrelentingly brutal postpunk band that...
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First Friday, June 2012: This Is What's Happening
That's right, everyone, it's that time again! June's First Friday is on the 1st of the month, so if it snuck up on you we understand, especially right after the long holiday weekend. But this short...
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OneWayRichmond's Show Picks 5/31-6/3
Thursday, 5/31 John Winn @ Crossroads Coffee (Forest Hill Ave. location) 8pm. Thursday, 5/31 Paleface, Fuzzy Baby @ Balliceaux 10pm. 21+ Thursday, 5/31 Groovin’ in the Garden presents Carbon Leaf @...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Luggage, "Chemicals"
RVA hip-hop veterans Luggage have been steadily increasing their profile over the past year or so, playing shows regularly and releasing videos in anticipation of their new album, Sex Drugs & Rap....
View ArticleCan I Get A Deal?
“Listen to my Mixtape,” “Support my Movement,” “Come to my Show!” These are just some of the many things we hear every day when we log on to Facebook, go to a club, or even walk to the grocery store....
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SHOW REVIEW: Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack, The Trillions, Kid is Qual Thursday, May 17 at The National This show resulted in an unusual circumstance--independently, and unknown to each other, both Shannon Cleary and I...
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DAILY RECORD: Father Yod And The Source Family
Father Yod And The Source Family - The Thought Adjusters (Drag City) It'd be easy to let the backstory overshadow the music with this release--after all, Father Yod was basically a cult leader, though...
View ArticleSelective Enforcement Of Broad St. Parking Laws Will Only Hurt RVA Business...
Anyone who has lived in downtown Richmond for a decent length of time has probably noticed at one time or another the signs on W. Broad St, in the VCU/lower Fan area, that make parking on Broad St...
View ArticleREBEL w/ Long Jawns & Doddie @ Republic
The First Friday jump off continues as Long Jawns and DJ Doddie head to Republic to do what they do best. Plenty of tunes and booze to reel in a new month, and the start of what's guaranteed to be an...
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REVOLT OF THE APES Presents: An Interview With Psychic Ills
We might be better served to go with the flow, but we can’t resist amateurishly parsing the meaning, intention or ambition of Psychic Ills‘ most recent album – the not-necessarily-stoned-but-beautiful...
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