“Say My Name” is the exceptional lead-off track from Richmond Virginia garage rock band CHRISTI, specifically via the four-piece’s brand new LP, “Christi 2“. You can currently pick up this...

Virgina-based trio Vigilantes, comprised of Scott Black (vocals and production), Jeremy Burton (rap vocals), and CJ Black (production and backing vocals) draw on their personal experiences of pain, addiction and recovery,...

Diamond Youth is a rock group out of from Baltimore, Maryland with members from Chicago, Illinois and Richmond, Virginia. The band started off by dropping a few EP’s in 2011, notably DMND, Don’t Lose Your Cool...

Ladada is a band from Virginia Beach, originally conceived as a solo project for Josiah Schlater and expanded to include James Robert Smith on bass and Calum Macpherson-Smith on drums. Their music richochets between punk and...

“Broke Royals never intended to fuel a political revolution with their first release. For Philip Basnight and Colin Cross, The Luxury of Time Pt. I, embodies the familiar realization of early adulthood that time is...

Ki:Theory (“Key Theory”) is the alias for Richmond, Virginia based recording artist and producer, Joel Burleson, with his featured track here today remixed by Seattle’s ODESZA – a duo comprised of...

Virginia based favorite Wild Nothing (aka Jack Tatum) released this holiday track last year after making the recording for fun… a well executed cover of the Captain Sensible track, One Christmas Catalogue. As was a...

After recently stumbling headlong into the new single ‘Screens’ from the Lynchburg, Virginia indie folk-rock four piece, Glass Oaks, I found they based their inspired band name from “the creative expression...

In August of 2011, Adrian Krygowski had a relatively normal life. He worked for a telecom giant in Northern Virginia, had a commute, and on the weekends he would travel the east coast with his aggressive folk music, making...

Formerly called ‘We Are Trees’ the duo is back and named ‘Dream Shake’, having released their debut album this past week on Frenchkiss Records. Check the band out at CMJ several days later this...

Winter is Samira Winter, Nolan Eley, Kyle Oppenheimer and Ana Karina DaCosta, the members of this Boston, MA dream pop/shoegaze band started in Boston, MA – an initial collaboration between Samira Winter and Nolan Eley...

Wild Nothing is the solo-project of Jack Tatum whose music is inspired by a longtime love affair with nostalgia. His debut full-length album, Gemini, released on Captured Tracks spring of 2010, is full of dreamy, carefree...

Blue Chandelier is the alias for Ravin Chand, an unsigned artist out of Fairfax, Virginia who recently put out his debut CRASH AND BOOM after around a year long recording effort in his home state.  Following the meat of...

Battle Flags, the moniker for artist Jack Budd, began as a project in stencil graffiti in an 8×10 room in Richmond, Virginia. The meticulously pieced album Color Engine is its harrowing result. Recorded in his bedroom...