Show Picks for another fucked up year in my life, your life, their life
12/29-1/1...
Thursday, 12/29 Keller Williams (pictured left) and the Pimps of Joytime @ The National (Kids matinee show 2:30pm) - (9pm evening show)
- The gangs of Richmond Vee Aye
will never die, just multiply...
pic by Nicole Kibert
Thursday, 12/29 You Blew It (pictured just above), Dikembe, Quiet the Trees, Jabroni (poster right) @ Some House (info at rvashows.proboards.com) 7pm.
- They play in the road only to get run over, days are counting, my diasease is an inner thought of courage...
Thursday, 12/29 A Tribute to bluegrass on MacArthur featuring The Slack Family Reckless Abandon, Cook County Bluegrass, Shockoe Bottom Boys (poster with S.B. Boys pictured just above) @ Shenanigan’s 7pm.
- Realize the cries are no longer the surprise...
Thursday, 12/29 Hanzel Und Gretyl (pictured right), Synthetic Nightmare, Machines of Living Death @ Fallout 8pm.
- Anything hopes to leap out of straights...
Thursday, 12/29 Photosynthesizers (pictured atop), The Witch Doctor, Amul 9, James Dangle @ Balliceaux 10pm.
- Wild goes 2011, but hardcore sex is the 2012 near sight...
Friday, 12/30 The Hot Seats @ Ashland Coffee & Tea 8pm.
- What did you do on NYE? Oh, you smoked crack and got a STD...meanwhile I watched my intestines bleach out the moon...
Friday, 12/30 Downfall of Gaia (pictured left from Marmota), Vestiges, Balaclava, Fixtures, The Blue Letter (pictured just above by Phil Bowne) @ Strange Matter
- Usurp the beings in transit after you whisper for freedom underneath a straight jacket...dill pickles anyone?...
Friday, 12/30 Goodwill Coat Drive featuring Eric Hunter (pictured just above), The Sweater Band @ The Republic 9pm.
- Move a policymaker to the back of the line...
Saturday, 12/31 Former Champions (poster just above) @ City Dogs in the Fan 9pm.
- Oh shit, I forgot...
Saturday, 12/31 Black Girls (pictured just above), Michael Murphy, DJ Carlito @ Balliceaux 10pm.
- Peruvian Girls...
Saturday, 12/31 Eliot Lipp (pictured right), Existor, Brothers Past @ Canal Club 8pm.
- Go masturbate to Mozart!...
Sunday, 1/1 Tasty Soul Brunch with DJ Charles Williams (aka DJ Greybeard on WRIR)(pictured left) @ Balliceaux 10:30am (early early)
- A Bloody Mary, Rabbit Rabbit and black eyed peas please...
Feliz año nuevo...
Go Wahoos!
And, also from the OWR sports desk...VCU plays @ Akron tomorrow. I say beat 'em good Rams, and grab some tires while you're at it...
R.I.P Cheetah (the chimpanzee from the 1930s "Tarzan" films) succumbs at 80 years old.
Best All Around Musician in Richmond: Eddie Prendergast of Amazing Ghost, Bio Ritmo, DJ X, and solo projects
Best Jazz Musician/Band: Reggie Pace
Best Classical Musician: Eric Stanley (violinist)
Best Blues Band: The Dirty Truth
Best Piano/Keys: Marlysse Simmons of Bio Ritmo and Os Margrelos
Best Guitar: Nick Poulos (Parasytic, Volture)
Best Drummer: Erik Larson (Parasytic)
Best Bass: Sadie Powers (Dead Fame)
Best Utility/Multi-Instruments: Ben Sheperd of The Nervous Ticks/Solo projects
Best Vocals: Brandi Price of The Diamond Center
Best Vocals/Frontman: Davey Bales of Lost Tribe
Best Singer/Songwriter: Jonathan Vassar
Best Hip Hop Group/Collective: Just Plain Sounds
Best MC/Rapper: (tie) Barcodez of Photosynthesizers, The Honorable Sleaze, and Joe Threat
Best Producer/MC/Hype Man/Entertainer: Noah O
Best Party DJ: All the DJ’s from the Audio Ammo Crew
Best Original/Techno/House/Breaks/Glitch/Dubstep/Etc. DJ: PLF DJs (Conway Jennings/John Reinhold)
Best Experimental/Soul/Hip Hop DJ: Ohbliv
Best Drum and Bass DJ: Joanna O
Best Noise/Pedals/Other Odd Musical Objects: Leo Heinzel of Flesh Control, Flesh Molt, Positivland
Best Acoustic/Unplugged Band: The Whiskey Rebellion
Best Jam/Funk/Reggae Band: Proverbial
Best Ensemble Band/Group of Musicians: (tie) Samsun Trinh & The Upper Eastside Band and No BS Brass Band
Best Up and Coming Musician or Band: (tie) Cough and Downbeat Switch
Best Musician/Band Not Everyone in Richmond Knows About, but Should:
The Kindling Kind
Best Music Related Business in Richmond: Black Iris Music
The Hardest Working Person in Richmond’s Music Scene: Mark Osborne of Strange Matter
Best Local Record Label: Triple Stamp Records
Best Record/Music Store: Steady Sounds Records
Best Musical Equipment Store: Kapeller Violins and Metro Sound
Best Theatre/Gallery/Cultural Space (plays, musicals, music, film, other): (tie) Gallery 5 and Ghostprint Gallery
Best Jukebox: The Village
Best Show Flyer/Poster Artist: Joe Legzz
Best Venue: (local acts)(tie) Strange Matter & The Camel (national acts) The National
Best Club: Fallout
Best Weekly Event: Beast Wellington - Wednesdays at Bogart’s in the Fan and VCU Jazz Night (on Tuesdays - not exactly every week, but close enough at The Camel)
Best Monthly Event: 'Afro Beta' presented by Audio Mass Transit at The Nile Ethiopian
Best Place To Play As A Street Musician: Carytown
Best Venue Sound: (tie) Cary St. Cafe and Wonderland
Best Recording Studio: (tie) RVA Studios and Etching Tin Studio
Best Record Producer/Studio Engineer: John Morand of Sound of Music Studios
Best Show Sound/Mixer/Engineer: Jonathan Kassalow of Strange Matter/The Bike Lot/Gallery 5/Other
Show of the Year:
(Major)(Seven way tie)
* Foster the People @ The National
* Bon Iver @ The National
* Raphael Saadiq @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
* Neil Young @ The Mosque (Landmark)
* Big Freedia @ Hat Factory
* Best Friend’s Day (featuring numerous national funk, hardcore, punk, & metal bands)
* Lonnie Liston Smith @ Capital Alehouse Downtown Music Hall
(Local)(Six way tie)
* RVA Music Festival @ Local venues and 18th Street - Shockoe Bottom (featuring numerous local bands, DJs, along with Girl Talk and Best Coast)
* Ghost of Pop 7 @ Gallery 5 (featuring My Old Ways, Young Adult Fiction, Horsehead, TheTrillions, Goldrush, Kid Is Qual, The Druthers)
* Ice Age, Lost Tribe, La Mere Vipere, Dead Fame @ Strange Matter
* RPG, Dead Goats @ Cous Cous
* Final Show/Farewell Night @ Sprout (featuring numerous local bands of all genres)
Best Official/Yet Underground Party: Source presents ‘Underground 2’ (underground rave event back in September)
Best Richmond Music Scene Media Source: RVA Magazine and Website
Best Local Radio Station: WRIR 97.3
Best Local Radio DJ: (tie) Shannon Cleary (WRIR) and Black Liquid (WDCE)
Best Music Calendar of Events: Mike Rutz’s ACTIVATE! Weekly Music Calendar @ WRIR Activate
Best Non-Live Music Show (radio or live in person):
- Open Mic Comedy Night every other Monday at Café Diem
- Wordy Birds (Interviews with writers by Liz Humes from WRIR)
- Radio Rubber Room 102.9 WHAN – Thursday Night
Best Local Music/Band Documentary: The Whiskey Rebellion – “Live from Oregon"
Best Multiple Day Music Event: Best Friends Day
Best Outdoor Concert Series: Groovin’ in the Garden
Best Indoor Concert Series: The Listening Room Series
Best Musical Selections By A Local Bartender: Matt Brooks (Bamboo Café)
Best Place in Richmond to Get News On What Bands Are Up To: Strange Matter
Best Neighborhood for Richmond Musicians to Live In: Church Hill
Best blog or website about music in general and or the Richmond music scene: Revolt of the Apes - www.revoltoftheapes.com
Best Place to See A Local Musician When He or She is Not Playing: Any local restaurant’s kitchen/bar
This year's Award's Award goes to: All the folks who made songs, videos, and rioted during VCU's Final Four run.
Cecil B. DeMiller and Rhodes Richmond Music Scene Lifetime Achievement Award: Christ Bopst
– Writer/books talent at Balliceaux/music podcast posted every Monday on rvanews.com/formally of the Richmond bands: Alter Natives, Holy Rollers and Mao Tse Helen, and founding member of GWAR.
Best Video: (three way tie) Jonathan Vassar & The Speckled Bird – “Turn to Face the Wind” – Directed by Kevin Gallagher
Noah O – “Voices” – Directed by Monsee' and The Media Den.
Ki:Theory "I Wanna Run" featuring Maura Davis of Denali - Directed and edited by Johnny Hugel
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Local Musicians In Memoriam: Cory Smoot of GWAR, Page Wilson, and Phil ‘Slomski’ Pollard
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Shot Outs to places, people, and organizations that contributed to the 2011 Richmond Music Scene: Byrd Theater, Radio Rubber Room Radio Show, Crossroads (Jackson Ward), Richmond Symphony, 821, The Mosque (Landmark Theater), Pete & Liz Humes, Phil Foxwell, Andrew Necci, Shannon Cleary, R. Anthony Harris, Aaron Reinhard, Rand Burgess, Student Hip-Hop Organization at VCU, Brown’s Island, Belle Isle, Jeyon Falsini and Magnus Music, James and Lesley Howson Bruno, Mike Blain, Death By Audio, Brooklyn Vegan, Sean O'Shea, Jamie Lay, VCU School of Music-Art-Film-Photography-Theater, The Camel, Cary St. Café, Bamboo Café, Avalon, Sprout, Charged Up Ent., Chocolate Milk, Hollywood Cemetery Collective, Just Plain Sounds, Godfrey’s, Hat Factory, Canal Club, Commercial Taphouse, Balliceaux, Ghostprint Gallery, Reference Gallery, Café Diem, Legend Brewery, Bogarts, Richmond.com, Richmond Jazz and Blues Society, the band Sports Bar, Raphael Katchinoff, Gallery 5, Really-Really Free Market, Ada Gallery, Forcefield Records, Weekly Rant, Lonnie B, CenterStage, City of Charlottesville, Tea Bazaar, Caliente, The Southern, Musictoday.com, WNRN, WDCE, WVCW, WHAN, WVNZ, Virginia Union, City Dogs, Club 534, VCU Ram Band, VCU Gold Rush Dancers, Every area high school band, Chris Ramming and Cous Cous, Plaza Bowl, Bunny Hop Bike Shop, Food Not Bombs, Illegal underground house/space venues, Alex Wilhelm, Any small yet extremely inspirational gospel group in the area, Lift, Velocity Comics, PLF, House of Real Toys, Various dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and bartenders, The Wingnut, The Black Hand, Crossroads Coffee, Get Money Green Brothers, Face Jay Ent., A-Money Promotions, RVAFreaks.com, Sound guys at all the local venues, The Bike Lot, rvashows.proboards.com, Occupy Richmond, Facecrook, Street performers, El Tropicabana, U of R’s Tyler Haynes Commons, Richmond Flying Squirrels, EQ, Triple Stamp Records, The Bucket Boys all around town, Richmond Coliseum, Modlin Center for the Arts, McCormack’s, First Fridays Art Walk, All involved in the Folk Festival and Two Street Festival, James Talley, Scott Blake, Breton Pezzelle, Silver Persinger, Ward Tefft, Shelley Briggs, Venture Richmond, Rumors Boutique, Fridays at Sunset, The Various Cultural & Nationalities Independent One Day Festivals, Bill Reid, High school music teachers, The Showplace, The Nile Ethiopian, The Cellar Door, Ipanema, The 14 ‘Head Shops’ in Metro Richmond, GRTC, Grace St., Robinson St., Broad St., Fulton Hill Neighborhood Resource Center, Open High, Record Finders, Turnstyle, Vinyl Conflict Records, Steady Sounds Records, Plan 9, BK Music, Witchmond, Rat Ward, Smooth Dirty Productions, Richmond Music Center, Metro Sound, Mojo’s, Chop Suey Books, Sound of Music Studios, Etching Tin Studios, Empire, All the rehearsal spaces around town, Video Fan, Eric E. Stanley, The Biograph, The Triple, GWAR, Lamb of God, Municipal Waste, Angela Pellerano, Mayor Dwight Jones, Chad ‘Cutty’ Coleman, mechanics who fix band vans, VCU's Final Four run, ungrateful bands, and all the others...Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
Monday, 12/26 THINK, People's Blues of Richmond (pictured right) @ The Camel 9pm.
- I'm so fucking sick of liars...
Monday, 12/26 Max Levine Ensemble, Delay, The Haverchucks @ Strange Matter 9pm.
- I wondered what would happen if OWR shut down...
Tuesday, 12/27 Night Idea, Brother Wolf (pictured just above), Plastic Traps @ The Camel 8pm.
- Piss on Jesus...
Tuesday, 12/27 Nine Mile Island (pictured just above), South Swell, Emma White @ Canal Club 7pm.
- Religious people are crooks...
Wednesday, 12/28 Stephen Kellog & the Sixers (pictured left), Madi Diaz @ Capital Alehouse Downtown Music Hall 9pm.
- Frankie goes to Hollywood Cemetery...
Wednesday, 12/28 Ramming Speed, Battlemaster (pictured just above), Thrones of Deceit, Degeneracy @ Strange Matter 9pm.
- Whats Happening...
Wednesday, 12/28 Binary Sound presents Year Reflective featuring James Dangle (pistured atop) & The Just Plain Sounds All-stars, RUHL, Rometti (poster just above) @ Canal Club 9pm. 21+
- Driving that drain, high on Metamucil...
Note: God damn mothafuckin' right i'm smoking a Soouth Richmond blunt.
Christmas is the time for giving, not stampeding corporate stores for bullshit. In the true spirit of what Christmas is really about please take the time to learn about The Street Muse Project featuring Richmond/Philadelphia’s ultimate street performer GULL.
* The Street Muse Project is a documentary project exploring the culture of street and public music around the World. This component of the project will document street performances in Africa. In addition, Gull will perform on the street throughout the project as an offering and thank you to those who are sharing their talents and energy with us. The documentary will be the first in a series.
Why Street Music?
Have you ever stopped and listened to a street musician, maybe given them a dollar, and wondered about their story? What are their musical influences? What can their life and art open to you about the World? That's the goal of the Street Muse Project...to capture and share these stories and use them as a springboard for education. Many countries in East and West Africa are facing incredible humanitarian and political challenges. We see public music as a way to help inspire education and foster a sense of mutual humanity.
Over the last 5 years Gull (Nate Rappole) has been performing as a street musician across much of the United States and Mexico. He is known for his percussion project that involves the simultaneous playing of the drums and guitar. Through his travels, Nate has come to see the importance of street music as a public display of emotion and how it can be used to break down social barriers and constraints. The street can serve as a public venue for artistic experimentation and social/political creativity. In the Spring of 2011, Nate was joined on a tour of the American South by Len Albright, who had recently completed a PhD in urban sociology. They discussed the possibility of interviewing musicians on the streets in other parts of the world and how the sharing of this could open pathways for creative politics and experiences across the globe. The Street Muse Project was born.
Within each country that we visit in Africa we will be meeting street musicians, documenting their craft with both audio and video, and using the lens of street music to explore local cultures and stories. The project will take place for six weeks during February and March, 2012.
The product of the Street Muse Project will be a documentary short that we will share free of charge to educational institutions, cultural centers, and anyone else who is interested in learning about the creativity and stories of street musicians from around the World. We plan this component of the Project to be the first of a series.
The funding you provide will support:
1.) Equipment needed and costs for conducting audio/video field recordings
2.) The editing of the project and the sharing of the field recordings and documentary.
3.) Travel expenses (including airfare, visas, and travel within Africa)
Show Picks for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus or what other crap you may celebrate this weekend 12/22-12/25...
Thursday, 12/22 Bruce Olsen & the Family (pictured right) @ Shenanigans 8pm.
- Divorce everybody...
Thursday, 12/22 Mutwawa, TSRP - Tom Smith & Ryan Parrish, AZ Tireks, En Nod, Whoa! (poster just above) @ Strange Matter 10pm.
- Shit on children...
Thursday, 12/22 Erika Blatnik (pictured atop from Pure Light), Clifton McDaniel, Matthew Paul Butler @ The Camel 8pm.
- Toss a baby into traffic...
Friday, 12/23 Christmas Blowout featuring Amazing Ghost (pictured right), DJ Elves & J Kanizzle @ Balliceaux 10pm.
- Loosen the revenge factor to death...
Friday, 12/23 The Congress, DJ Williams Projekt, Murphys Kids (poster just above) @ The National 6:30pm.
- Everybody sucks balls...
Friday, 12/23 This Time It's War, In Alcatraz 1862 (pictured left by Brandon Hambright), An Obscure Signal, and others (poster just above) @ Kingdom 5pm. All ages.
- Murder the crippled...
Saturday, 12/24 Get drunk, snort cocaine, vomit, repeat.
Sunday, 12/25 White Cross (pictured just above), Pistol Whip Nikki @ Bandito’s 9pm.
- Do mind the bollocks...
Monday, 12/19 Lost Tribe, Mauser @ Empire 9pm.
- Goth punk and a carton of Russian cigarettes...
Monday, 12/19 Cafe Diem Comedy Night Open-Mic featuring Richmond’s best stand up comedians along with Brian Michael Gartland (pictured right) @ Café Diem 8:30pm. (Comedian sign up 8pm)
- Laugh at the ridiculous laughing...
Monday, 12/19 James Justin & Co. (pictured left), Loves It @ The Camel 8pm.
- K95 spells country again...
Tuesday, 12/20 Close Talker, Amateur Thieves, The Haverchucks, Family Cat (pictured just above) @ Church of Abraham (info at rvashows.proboards.com) 7pm.
- Close to thieves using haverchucks to capture the family cat...
Tuesday, 12/20 A Very RVALUTION X-Mas (pictured just above) @ The Hat Factory 10pm. 18+
- Dance you birds!...
Tuesday, 12/20 Fight the Big Bull (pictured just above) @ Balliceaux 10pm. 21+
- Jazz is an empty light across a Montana sky...
Wednesday, 12/21 Benefit for The Cushing Family featuring Josati (pictured left), RYU, The Polychrons, Former Champions @ The Camel 8pm.
- Happy feet tell the story of dull loons escaping from RCJ...
Wednesday, 12/21 Dr. Sketchy’s RVA featuring burlesque renaissance-woman, Deanna Danger (pictured just above by Kim Frost), local burlesque performers, alternative models, circus-ters, and vaudevillians @ Strange Matter 6pm.
- Lady in red...
Wednesday, 12/21 Julius Pittman & the Revival (pictured left) @ Shenanigan's 7pm.
- Scarlett Jake Johannsenn & Tootie from Facts of Life...
Wednesday, 12/21 J3 Project (pictured right) @ Cary St. Café 9pm.
- Think she’s a slut?...I hope so...
Note:
R.I.P Kim Jong 'mentally' il (1942-2011); Václav Havel (1936-2011); Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949 – 2011 - pictured just below)
