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Comedian Conan O'Brien onstage at the 2024 Newport Folk Festival.

The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend

By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024

Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.

Noise Complaint

Inter Arma, most members long-haired and scruffy, lean against a concrete wall looking like a bunch of cool guys.

Exploring New Heaven with Inter Arma

By Ben Sailer • August 29th, 2024

Richmond-based metal five-piece Inter Arma have long charted their own path between metal sub-genres. On their sixth record New Heaven, they may have transcended simple categorization altogether, and are much more interesting as a result.

a screenshot from Hi Fi Rush featuring a vista of a colorful futuristic city with a frozen peak and two V towers, while a young man in a yellow jacket and red scarf flies above it all

Performing Through Failure to Hit that Hi-Fi Rush

By Fred Banks • August 28th, 2024

There is a performance to games, from reaching an in-game objective, or literally a developer-created achievement as an extra bonus for a particular feat or choice in a game.

Casting Deep Meteo

A black-and-white photo of the band Orchid rocking out on stage in all their middle-aged glory.

Orchid in Defiant Embrace of Age

By Levi Rubeck • August 14th, 2024

The members of Orchid got together, found the weight of the years less cumbersome than they imagined, and in the most pure punk spirit of all said, “Fuck it.”

A photo of Zochi cropped in on her face. She has coiled braided hair, wide silver rimmed glasses, a black leather vest and white long sleeve shirt, and is tilting her head to while looking at the camera and pointing up with one lone finger

How an African Princess Became a Singer of a Queer-Affirming God

By Elijah Beahm • August 7th, 2024

“Whenever I’m writing a song, whenever I’m singing a song, I make sure that I’m coming from a place of being free, just being free. I let my emotions speak through my song.”

A crop of the cover art for the Bette Davis Eyes cover single by Katrina Woolverton and Val Garay, a black and white image of Woolverton with black curly hair looking up but with a ringed hand held up to shield her eyes

A Fresh Look Through “Bette Davis Eyes” With Katrina Woolverton & Val Garay

By Elijah Beahm • July 30th, 2024

It was awave of stylistic rebirth that prompted Garay into finally exploring “Bette Davis Eyes” for a new audience, “because I’ve been approached a zillion times to recut that song, and I always said ‘Absolutely not’ because it’s just too iconic.”

Noise Complaint

Detail from the cover art for Better Lovers' God Made Me an Animal features two dark figures with heart eyes attached to each other by their tongues. On each of their chests is one half of a broken heart.

Better Vibes With Better Lovers

By Ben Sailer • July 30th, 2024

Ben goes to see metalcore supergroup Better Lovers and comes away with a renewed affection for his city and the power of the riff.

Noise Complaint

Several guitar effects pedals are propped up on a stony outcropping on a mountain trail.

Kawaii, Kaiju, and Guitar Pedals: Window Shopping With Effects Bakery

By Ben Sailer • June 28th, 2024

Ben falls in love with an impossibly cute guitar pedal company that brings kawaii style and rock and roll together.

Holomatixx: A New Wave Order

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2024

Coming at you straight from the Pink Aisle!

Casting Deep Meteo

A black-and-white photo of the Zazen Boys looking cool as cukes in their short-sleeved button-downs.

Zazen Boys and the Healing Riff

By Levi Rubeck • June 7th, 2024

Zazen Boys, even after so long, is clearly not afraid to confront multiple shades of life, breaking time and time signatures while remaining achingly human.

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