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Since 2021, Booth The Streets, the video series presented by Richmond director HundoMadeIt, has showcased more central Virginia hip-hop artists than any other platform in town… by a wide margin. [...]

While The Trial often gets the spotlight for its relevance in today’s world, it’s Franz Kafka’s other celebrated work, The Metamorphosis, that feels eerily suited to the reality capitalism has [...]

As Bo Burnham once observed, every minute of our lives is being colonized. It’s a bleak truth, one that has driven many to seek refuge in small, unassuming hobbies. Painting, scrapbooking, or [...]

It’s been over a year since hip-hop artist TROY dropped 96 DEGREES, his third and most musically layered album to date, but the Richmond-based artist is still finding new ways to explore its [...]

Listeners often approach a new album from a familiar artist with a quiet, unspoken expectation: growth. Whether or not they realize it, what they truly want is to hear the artist push further, to [...]

Heartbreak isn’t just unbearable–it’s chaotic, borderline sinister. We’ve all heard the familiar adage: “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” But what that line [...]

Band evolutions are always compelling, but few have been as captivating as the ascent of Strawberry Moon in recent years. What began in 2017 as a collection of solo bedroom recordings by singer [...]

Get up. Wait. Eat. Stop. Drive. Brake. Work. Break. Return. Rest. Consume. Pause. Sleep. Repeat. Is this what life has boiled down to? A relentless cycle of routine, punctuated only by fleeting [...]

Fifty-five days into 2025. Thirty-seven reported mass shootings. All in the name of an enshrined right, drafted in response to a threat that its fiercest defenders fail to recognize, even as it [...]

The Newlin Music Prize unveiled its 2025 Short List last Monday, featuring 20 albums in contention for this year’s award, which celebrates outstanding musical excellence in Richmond, VA. Voting [...]