Meet Iron Reagan, an old school punk-hardcore band formed by Ryan Parish and Paul Burnette (ex-Darkest Hour) along with Tony Foresta, and Phil "Landphil" Hall of Municipal Waste. The outcome is every bit as upbeat, crusty, punk-infested, Richmond style fun as you'd come to expect from the likes of these four gentlemen. You can check ...
EQ is a rapper from Richmond, Virginia who is bringing back real hip-hop. From his facebook page: While his flow is definitely heavily influenced by New York rappers and the modern lyrical underground, the mix of singing transitions between verses and evidence he's provided showing he's no novice at R&B gives EQ a unique edge [...]
Pleased to announce this new mashup duo out of, none other than, Richmond VA. Stereoheist has been cranking out some pretty dope mashups for a little while now, and we're stoked to feature them here on Colt-On. Enjoy this smash of Dev ft. The Cataracs vs. Mims in "Bass Down Low Like This". I'll also include another great piece where they combine Phoenix vs. Drake in "1901 is Over". Check out their soundcloud for more. Stereoheist - Bass Down Low Like This [...]
Another One (feat Joey Ripps) (co-prod. by Ohbliv) by Just Plain Ant Another one has been birthed for about 2 weeks, the homie "Joey Ripps" reppin' Richmond Virginia... Teams up with "Ohbliv" with a collaborative track leaking off the upcoming project "Hell Or High Water" That will be here January 10, 2012".... “my life is what i make it. happiness is in small things and wherever you choose to see it. i do all i can to create, share and show love to everyone i meet. its how i pay it [...]
Remember 311 ? They were all the rage back in 1995 and when anybody mentioned music as being "alternative," 311 was always mentioned. They've had a few moderate successes here and there but kind of faded out of the mainstream - although they do have a very rabid fanbase. The group will be performing at the National on Wednesday, Nov. 30 and will be playing two full sets. I'm a little put off by the price tag though. The band puts on a great show (I've seen them twice), but $40 to see 311 is [...]
Remember 311 ? They were all the rage back in 1995 and when anybody mentioned music as being "alternative," 311 was always mentioned. They've had a few moderate successes here and there but kind of faded out of the mainstream - although they do have a very rabid fanbase. The group will be performing at the National on Wednesday, Nov. 30 and will be playing two full sets. I'm a little put off by the price tag though. The band puts on a great show (I've seen them twice), but $40 to see 311 is [...]
Nickelus F - Handsome (Prod. Brad Oblivion) Nickleus F - Pricless Ft.Conrizzle (Prod.Conrizzle) Nickelus F - Balconies (Prod. Nils Matic) Richmond, Virginia's very own 'Nickleus F" drops a mixtape... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Without using a cheesy pun (which I'm going to use anyway), The Greater the Risk is worth a Greater Risk. Seriously though, the Richmond pop-rock band, who was featured as an Alt Press artist of the month in February 2011, has just released a five track album, entitled Say What You Never Said , and it is full of melodic gems, including first single "Friends and Foes" (which you can listen to here .) Look out for the band's tour in support of the record this fall, and find out more about the emerging band on [...]
Richmond, VA -Last night several faculty members from Virginia Commonwealth University held a forum called "Why Occupy?" It was meant to introduce newcomers to our methods of communication and also to explore some of the motives behind the Occupy movement's (or "moment," as have suggested is a better term) sudden global outburst, such as economic inequality, the military industrial complex, and the exploitation of labor. We had a pretty nice turnout, packing a large lecture hall with over 200 hundred people. This video pretty much somes it up: Tonight we begin re-occupying Richmond! We are headed [...]
‘No tricks’ wrote poet and short story writer Raymond Carver in his short essay On Writing , and it’s advice that Willy Vlautin, whose work as both a lyricist and novelist owes more than a little to Carver’s terse, dirty realist takes on American blue collar life, has taken to heart. Attired in regulation plaid shirts and jeans (with the exception of bassist ‘Mad’ Dave Harding sporting an understated but fetchingly embroidered flowery number) with this band what you see is very much who they are. Like a more muted, downhome edition of Crazy Horse, the consistent excellence of [...]
Richmond, VA -Back in March, before all the Occupy Wall Street craziness began, a small group of activists in Richmond were already in occupation. They were protesting a new city ordinance that would make it illegal to stay in public parks after sunset, which was to inevitably displace many members of the local homeless population. The occupied site was nestled in the middle of Virginia Commonwealth University's main campus, in Monroe Park. After the occupation was demolished, the homeless population who were living in the park were directed, by the city, to downtown's Kanawha Plaza. Several occupiers [...]
Richmond, VA - I recently spent 16 days in occupation of Kanawha Plaza-a public park in the middle of Richmond, Virginia's financial district-in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests. We were camped out in front of and on top of the Federal Reserve (two-thirds of that bitch is underground), we were also next to several poisonous banks and lobbying firms. At about 1am on Halloween morning, the Richmond Police Department set up barricades at the major adjacent intersections and subsequently raided our camp, giving us less than an hour to clear out what had take us over [...]
Gambling, whiskey, cheap hotels and cheaper women, the songs of Richmond Fontaine tell the tales of being down and out in Reno, stoned and alone in a trailer park, stagnant lives in Mid-West US of A and some personal anguish as told by the often wounded, sometimes trashy and always larger than life characters met along the way. Lead songwriter and lyricist for the band Willy Vlautin captures a quixotic Americana. As a novelist, Vlautin covers similar territory. His first novel The Motel Life draws comparisons to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men , a deeply romantic [...]
Today we have a 45-minute slice of hip-hop history graciously provided by musician and collector Rob Wortman from his vast self-recorded cassette archive: an early rap event from Richmond, California as taped from the audience one fine night in May of 1984. Sadly, these are all the details that we have at present, no listing yet of the DJ's and MC's that we will hear in this gig. Also, there seems to have been some problem with the PA sound at the event - numerous [...]
It's always great finding a new band to get into only to find out that they are playing in town in just a few days. That's the case when I first heard the music from Springfield, Missouri natives Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin . Aside from the awesome (if not long) band name, these guys know how to put together a fun indie pop rock song. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is playing at Current on Friday, Oct. 28 with The Absent Center, The Trillions and Young Adult Fiction . [...]
Can you remember what you were doing in 1994? I would have been ten years old, so I was probably watching Sharky & George while playing Scalectrix, however over in the Pacific Northwest of the United States Richmond Fontaine were just starting out on a career that would see them release some of the most loved and critically-acclaimed Folk/Americana albums of the past two decades. Now ten albums in, the band continue to go from strength to strength. Front-man and chief songwriter Willy Vlautin now also has three novels to his name and the [...]
Why do all of the best bands break up way before their time? This past weekend, I made the pilgrimage from Philadelphia down to Richmond, VA to catch their Government Warning play their goodbye show. Playing at Strange Matter, I haven't been there since it was the Nancy Raygun nearly 7 years ago. Strangely enough, the place didn't seem to have changed at all. The sold out venue was
We all know that the Richmond Folk Festival is coming to town this weekend, and while the collective of Richmond loses their minds over this event, I'm personally not that big of a fan. But there is plenty of other things going on besides the Folk Fest. Here are 5 you should check out. 1. WARREN HAYNES BAND Blues guitarist Warren Haynes from Govt Mule and the Allman Brothers Band will be performing a solo gig at the National on Friday, Oct. 14. Raining [...]
FALL INTO DARKNESS: AGALLOCH, ATRIARCH, SEDAN ( Branx , 320 SE 2nd) Portland's metal scene is mightier than ever, and the Fall into Darkness festival invites you to three skull-crushing days of local notables along with imports up and down the West Coast. Tonight is headlined by one of our most gorgeous and blackest, Agalloch. I cannot stress the importance of earplugs enough. MARJORIE SKINNER RICHMOND FONTAINE, IAN MOORE, MERCY GRAVES ( Star Theater [...]
In my limited experience of Brighton one thing I’ve learned is that Coalition, tonight’s venue, is one of those trendy sort of clubs where all the freshers go and blow half their student loans in a night getting wasted on £5 pints and vomiting everywhere with ‘the lads’. So it was a bit of a turn up to see that Richmond Fontaine , with all their alt country and Americana leanings, were going to play here. Opening act Stiv Cantrelli got things going well though, despite suffering from being too close perhaps to [...]
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