Thursday, Sept. 22, 10 p.m.
The Catalyst, HotChaCha, Summer People, Jabroni, Hoax Hunters @ Strange Matter
Here is a night of all kinds of music. Richmond metal kings The Catalyst will get out of control for your pleasing. Speaking of pleasing, is there anything more pleasing than the hard rocking art-punk sounds of the all female group HotChaCha out of Cleveland? Hell no. These ladies are the spirit of ’76 and ’77.
Summer People enter the autumn still rocking. They will bring their Syracuse style rock to Richmond for it’s a big time celebration for these Upstate New Yorkers. Syracuse University is joining the ACC. Let’s hope Summer People’s rock blast away the usual frat boy bands you get out of ACC universities. I have a feeling they will. It’s a new day on the East Coast folks.
Richmond bands Jaboni and Hoax Hunters will round out the night’s bill. Oh my, Hoax Hunters have a lot of folks talking from the Chippenham Parkway to Providence Park about their grungy alternative blow-off- your-lips Meadowlark Lemon sound. You better check this show out.
The Catalyst
www.thecatalystrva.bandcamp.com
HotChaCha
www.exitstencil.org/hotchacha.php
Jabroni
Hoax Hunters
www.reverbnation.com/hoaxhunters
Summer People
$5; 18+
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Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m.
Bio Ritmo @ Gallery 5
Tonight is the release party for Bio Ritmo’s new album "LA VERDAD" on Electric Cowbell Records. Tonight also marks Bio Ritmo’s 20th anniversary as a band. I might also add, these guys are one of the most influential bands to ever come out of Richmond, let alone America. Congratulations, Bio Ritmo!
Salsa in Jackson Ward, you can’t lose!
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$12; 18+
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Friday, Sept. 23, 9 p.m.
Van Hunt, Photosynthesizers @ The Camel
Van Hunt is a vibrant Grammy Award Winning performer and producer out of Dayton, Ohio.
Van Hunt delivers to our ears a day-glo psychedelic soul laced with glam and punk. The guitar riffs Van Hunt supplies are the barbiturates we took last Thursday, yet still feel in are bones.
Van Hunt is also is complete force in the songwriting game. Last check he had just defeated 12 wanna-be songwriters in his sleep. This man can’t go wrong; he’s amazing.
The Photosynthesizers add much more juice to this evening of miracles and poisonous snakes on stilts.
Van Hunt
Photosynthesizers
www.reverbnation.com/photosynthesizers
$15; 18+
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Friday, Sept. 23, 9 p.m. & Saturday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m.
Revolt of the Apes presents Instant Pleasure: Richmond Psych Fest
Friday: (order of appearance) Frailty of Angels, Flesh Control, PJB, Borborites, Dark Sea Dream, Caves Caverns, DJ Shravnasty @ Strange Matter
Saturday: (order of appearance) Palindrone, Mutwawa, Last Remaining Pinnacle, The Flying Eyes, Gull, The Sky Drops, Black Box Revelation, Morning After Girls, The Diamond Center
Wow, a psych fest in Richmond? Finally, says the lamppost. The year is 2011, now witness the birth of the Psych child. This child drinks and smokes shorts as well. And, now for the reports: this two day pleasure cruise brought to us by Revolt of the Apes will have the mind expanding past Chester, Va.
OK, bring it back; the sun is on as the light from a true underground sound that no one at 1313 E. Main St. has found is glazing super. The line-ups for both days are a who’s who of beacons that bestow harmony and ear play.
Highlighting day one will be of course Caves Caverns, but look out for Dark Sea Dream, Flesh Control and the Hoover dam sounds of DJ Shravnasty. This should be a night of poodles, peace, and pornographers along with the acid jazz from Uncle Baghdad’s upstairs closet.
Highlighting this cavalcade on day two are the bands Black Box Revelation of Belgium and the Morning After Girls of Australia along with locals The Diamond Center. But, don’t forget GULL and Mutwawa. They will most certainly supply the funk with a taste of weirdo crocodile.
Instant Pleasure: Richmond Psych Fest
Friday - Free; 18+
Saturday - $10; 18+
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Sunday, Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m.
Fall Concert by the Richmond Concert Band @ Agecroft Hall (4305 Sulgrave Road)
If Lou Rawls spilt the ketchup, out would come the Richmond Concert Band. Now here’s what they say about themselves: The Richmond Concert Band, is a diverse but united adult community band whose mission is to perform free concerts for the citizens of the metropolitan Richmond area, and to provide a quality and challenging performing experience for local musicians of all ages.
Sometimes this band brings in guest conductors. I’m thinking for fun they should get the Maestro for a night. Anyway, this has family fun written all over it. Don’t forget granddad’s dentures.
Richmond Concert Band
Free; all ages
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Monday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m.
Primus @ The National
Wild eye Northern California boy Les Claypool is back with his supernatural rock band Primus. Before cutting the "South Park" theme song this guillotine of a fancy band brought joy and hopping to our hearts.
Who knew a bass guitar could carry a band so far. Also, come to think about it, who knew a song about a redneck’s beaver could take a band so far. Claypool has come a long way since trying out for Metallica. For nostalgia, and a bouncing good time, I recommend you jump on top of a GRTC bus and ride eastward downtown for this three-top circus.
For your information, Primus will be performing two long sets. I then say, pace the drinking my dear friends.
$35; all ages
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Tuesday, Sept. 27, 10 p.m.
Voltaire's Black Unicorn Cabaret featuring Voltaire, This Way to the Egress, Hellblinki @ Fallout
Looking for a dark minded singer songwriter that evokes blood and doom? Well, you can find just that in Voltaire. No, not the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire, but the one I’m talking about is a performer’s performer.
Voltaire is a songwriter whose music is a collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in the macabre and bawdy songs about Star Trek and Star Wars. Don’t be surprised if conversations get started during the set, and definitely expect toys and games to come about. Oh my word, zombie prostitutes too?
You might also know of Voltaire from his songs "Brains!" and "Land of the Dead" from the Cartoon Network show "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy."
They say Voltaire is a renaissance man. I say his shows are renaissance shows. Voltaire is also an animator that creates comic books. I’m sure Richmond and E.A. Poe will give him plenty of inspiration during his visit to the dark woods of Shockoe Bottom.
Voltaire
This Way to the Egress
Hellblinki
$9 Advance – falloutrva.com/$12 door; 18+
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Wednesday, Sept. 28 8 p.m.
Cornmeal, Dirtfoot @ Canal Club
Cornmeal is a roots and bluegrass jam band from Chicago. Dirtfoot is a gypsy punk country boogie band from Shreveport. This night has hi-jinks written all over it. I can’t wait to hop on the Party Bus and get delivered to what is sure to be a night of foot stomping and psychiatry at the Canal Club.
Cornmeal
Dirtfoot
$12; 18+
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