Join us Saturday, April 27 at The 400, for an amazing night of music with Nick Coward & The Last Battle Billy Wallace, Declan Ryan, and Giants (Stephen Wozny). NC&TLB have been playing…

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These guys are coming to The Fourhundred Friday, March 9 @ 7pm!

Join us Wednesday, March 6 @ 7pm at The 400 for a phenomenal concert with Polyenso. You really don’t want to miss this incredible band! They are currently on tour for the release of their new album “…

Join us Saturday, March 9 as Lowland Hum takes the stage at The 400! They are an incredibly talented husband & wife duo from NC. We just know you’re going to love them!

Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the…

On Tuesday, November 20th, we will celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of The Listening Room. We could not be more thankful to the folks who sponsor us and for the relentless crowd that shows up every month for the best listening experience in Richmond. 



The Listening Room is put on by a small group of volunteers that call themselves the Foundry. This group is fixed on the idea of curating great…

Matt White of Fight the Big Bull fame, will debut "Big Inner" on August 21st. The record is a joint release between Spacebomb Records and Hometapes. If you missed the pre-release 7'' a couple weeks ago, don't worry you can pre-order the LP record from Hometapes…

      Yes, its true....the name alone causes you to stop and scratch your head before saying, nice!  YIP DECEIVER is the brainchild of Athens, GA multi-instrumentalist Davey Pierce.  Yip Deceiver’s music is an exciting take on experimental dance pop with strong hooks, playful take on new wave, 80s R&B and electro pop.  The other 50% of YIP is Nic Dobbratz, a classy singer/bass player/keyboardist who completes…

While they may not be from #RVA, they certainly a favorite around here. Check out the Cinnamon Band's new video done by Will Renton. 

The video is part of the release of their new 7'' featuring Black Love and Tough Love on…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAvf5j_dfs

Amen Dunes, the solo project of Damon McMahon, began with recordings made in the fall of 2006 in upstate New York. Those tapes were initially put on the shelf as personal recordings he never intended for release, and the following summer, McMahon moved to China and all but stopped making music. He would live in Beijing for the next few years, writing…

Big Stone Gap, VA -  how many Richmonders could point that out on a map?  Well, you may have a better clue where to look when you listen to Big Stone's very own "WE KILLED VEGAS."

      Comparisons like "AC/DC meets the White Stripes" couldn't be farther from the truth, you gotta see…

In Earmilk's recently published "Top 20 Hip-Hop albums of 2011" post, you may have read me refer to the "Chillwave" genre as a half-life. This was probably due to my recognition of the genres' tight-knit handful of affluentials seemingly move toward differently describable sounds. Regardless of how excellent the music was that dropped last year, whether it be Washed Out's blissfully spacious aural journey Within and Without, or Toro Y Moi's Unequivocally funky homage to disco and…

Every Listening Room is an exercise in gratefulness. Continually being humbled by talent of the artists and the service of the organizers, I am struck by the demands of work and sweat and heart that bear these special nights. This week in particular, they were short on baked goods. Once I heard this, my heart sank, because I realized I do so little to help in these efforts. In the least, I can bake some cookies, I thought. But I didn’t have the time, and…

Dead Fame is excited to announce the release of their first EP recording, Frontiers--available for digital download on iTunes, Amazon,…

Solitary EP Review #1

We just released a 5-song EP titiled, Solitary in December.  You can buy it at iTunes or off our bandcamp page. 

Quick on the heals of it's release we had an indie music blog site take notice and write a glowing review of the EP.  Please click the link above, or the one below, to read the review.…

The Richmond music scene had so many incredible albums come out this year, there was no way I could lump them in with national releases and then have to narrow them down to 10 (there are actually 11 on this list). And since my blog is primarily local, I made a completely separate list - and even that was still hard to do. Here are the best albums Richmond musicians had to offer for 2011.

COREY MCLEMORE - THE DEFINITION

There's nothing really more I can say about…

The one thing I take pride in as a music lover is that I have a wide variety of tastes. After looking at Paste and Pitchfork's Best of 2011 lists, I realize I hadn't listened to the majority of their choices. The music I listened to and loved over the year is 1) mainstream (Adele's "21" is a phenomenal album, in case you didn't already know), 2) so obscure…

It seems I was too quick to post yesterday about local artist and their Christmas songs. Because no sooner did I post, I managed to hear about two more releases.

Make Phantoms, who just released their new EP "Solitary Never Sleeps,"…

Christmas is fast approaching and what better way to get in the spirit of things than with some great local holiday music? Well, there's drinking heavily, but that works for every occasion.

After giving away a bunch of free songs over Thanksgiving, Dean Fields is at it again. This time, he went into the studio and recorded a few of his holiday favorites, and giving the gift of songs to his fans.…