Sound Check
Wednesday, Dec. 31
New Year's Eve Shows
The Virginia Metal Alliance specializes not in the periodic table but in music heavier than osmium, lutetium and mercur combined. Playing are Knuckledragger, Emergency November, Klutchkill and Choke Chain .
Hometown aliens GWAR , after years of exile from Richmond stages, are at The National.
Surfs Up at Plaza Bowl. Lovers of vodka, communism and surfing Vivisectors Gulag Tunes are playing with Third Wave, The Dregs and Cha Cha's Cadillac . Guest emcee is Unsteady Freddie .
It's a Roots music extravaganza at The Canal Club with Good Natured Riot, Jackass Flats, Fox Hunt and Special Ed and the Shortbus.
At Poe's Pub it's a funkadelic party with Galactic Superstars .
Black Cash and the Bad Trips are at Tobacco Company.
At The Camel it's a New Year's Eve throwdown with Playground Semantics, DJ Gumby and Kid Vid .
Thursday, Jan. 1
The first day of the new year and you are feeling good, rested, healthy and ready to kick ass in 2009.
Friday, Jan. 2
Show of the week: Folk-punk from Seattle courtesy of Jason Webley . Also playing are Arise, Sweet Donkey, Alison Self, Clint Maul and the Hotdamns . It's at Gallery 5.
Old School Freight Train member Jesse Harper appears for a special performance at In Your Ear Studio.
A full slate of five bands tonight at The Camel – Meantime, Petition, Learn Nothing, Redemption and + One More.
Saturday, Jan. 3
Battery , the Masters of Metallica, will be playing all their metallic hits at The National with Emergency November and White Knuckle Battery.
Jack and the Whale bring their leviathan pop music to The Triple, with Modo and Chris Daltry of the 'mericans returning to his old home town.
Sunday, Jan. 4
Pop music volcano lovers Hot Lava are at The Camel with Deleted Scenes and the Great White Jenkins .
Most unusual bill of the week goes to The Triple – The Dopamines, Wilson Getchell and the Guys, Useless S. Grant and Genuine Imitations.
Monday, Jan. 5
Three bands at The Camel tonight – The Prize, First Strike and What Price Victory .
Tuesday, Jan. 6
No need to fear Horror Show Hot Club , with Blight and Bowery, Perkasie and Casperous Vine tonight at The Camel.
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