Richmond Battery Shows: Disseminating Sound & Breaking Paradigms
An outdoor series in motion, dedicated to sharing forms of self-expression with the community.
Weekly Roundup
What our staff has been looking at, reading, and thinking about.
Marc Rebillet @ the 9:30 Club
Concert-goers understand the importance of crowd participation during sets. A somewhat boring artist could have an incredible performance with the proper amount of crowd interaction infused into it. However, this isn’t the case for Marc “Loop Daddy” Rebillet.
Some Things Last a Long Time, Daniel Johnston is Proof.
I spent a lot of time this summer sitting on my friend’s porch and listening to music. I was caught off-guard by a song he had added to the playlist. The quality of the recording wasn’t very good, the singer had a strange high-pitched voice, and there were very audible mistakes throughout the recording, but there was something about it that just stopped me in my tracks.
Weekly Roundup
What our staff has been looking at, reading, and thinking about.
Sitting Down with COIN
Seated in the greenroom, Chase (lead vocals, synth), Joe (guitar), and Ryan (drums) of COIN took the time to talk about their start in music, their experiences on tour, and their upcoming album.
Review: hankychief – funnel
Get lost in the hazy synths and guitar laden rhythms of Richmond singer + producer. Richmond based label, Foil, has been putting out mixes by a wide variety of artists since August of 2018, but last November they had their debut release: funnel. The 50-track album is the latest release by hankychief, pseudonym of the […]
All the “Yeehaw” Worthy Looks in Solange’s When I Get Home
The designers and stylist behind all our favorite cowboy chic ensembles featured in Solange’s latest release. Words by Nico Gavino Solange’s long anticipated album, When I Get Home, dropped last month and, as expected, she delivered some serious looks in the project’s short film. The album explores Solange’s roots in Houston, Texas and arrived in […]
Review: Goodnight Daniel – Self titled EP
Richmond guitar trio gets cozy on their debut EP. Brett Jones is a careful man. Listening through this EP by he, bassist Garen Dorsey and drummer Daniel Richardson, you can’t help notice a sense of restraint. A feeling that the group is setting aside more expressive instrumental virtuosity for diligent attention to detail. Every note […]
Show Me A Sign: Talking to Shy Lennox About His New Visual
Shy Inspires Us to Stay Cautious About Love This Valentine’s Day Words and Interview by Ross Atkinson Last September, Shy Lennox released his 2018 EP Audition. Ink interviewed him in November about the EP, but today, Shy has come back to the project with a new visual for his hit single Signs. The video beautifully […]
The Honor Roll
Ink’s Kaelan Brown and Kyle Mayo-Blake share their top albums of 2018. In a year of fantastic releases, musical triumphs, and amazing feats, it’s tough to narrow it all down to 30 releases. From the glitchy and aggressive energy of JPEGMAFIA’s “Veteran” to the soaring and beautifully crafted guitar ballads of Natalia Lafourcade’s “Musas Vol. […]
Unwrapping FOIL: A Platform for Anything Experimental
FOIL is a new community of musicians and artists in Richmond aiming to create a platform for experimentation by like-minded folks. Words and Photos by Sam Mullany “We wanted to give people a place—sometimes physical and sometimes digital—to try new things and feel supported in doing so,” explains Liza Pittard, the co-creator of FOIL. Liza […]