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RANDY: And we are rolling, here. We are at City Dogs in Richmond, Virginia. TONY: Glorious City Dogs! RANDY: Glorious City Dogs. TONY: All right, Ill kick this one off. RANDY: Its- TONY:

What was your first introduction to the Rich-mond music scene? RANDY: My first introduction to the Rich-mond music sceneI really owe my famil-iarity with Richmond musicians, Richmond bands, and the Richmond sound, to a guy named Scott Hudgens, who is now the gui-tar player in Hex Machine, and hes also in Tulsa Drone. I moved here under the excuse I was going to go to college, you know, but really it was to go to shows, because Id come up from the Tidewater area to see shows up here. I had a class my freshman year with Scott Hudgens, and wed start talk-ing about music, because I was this insane punk rock kid who thought I was the cool-est dude everI wasnt. He was like, Well, my bands playing, his first bandwell, I dont know if it was his first band, but his band at the timeBrain Flower, and I went to go see them. If you werent on drugs when you went to the show, by the end of the show you felt like you were. They were just really intense. Kepone wrote a song about them. TONY: Oh, wow. RANDY: Called Brain Flowers, an instrumen-tal. And Scott later went on to be in, most notably, in Sliang Laos. TONY: Oh, shit. RANDY: Which is one the most intense bands Ive ever seen anywhere. And he was really, really nice to me, to a dumb, goofy kid with a mohawk who thought he was from England or something. I was a little shit. And he was really cool to me, and turned me on to some local stuff, and to this day he still gives me music if I pester him about it. Great dude. TONY: Thats good, thats real good. Shit, my first experience was an Action Patrol show. RANDY: What was his name? The guy with glasses? TONY: Nappy? RANDY: Nappy, Nappy, yeah. TONY: I just moved here you know from Florida, and one of my best friends, Matt Mills, fucking dragged me up. Ah, we gotta go see this band, theyre amazing! and they were. BACKGROUND [There he is.] TONY: Hey! RANDY: Hi everybody, world-famous Ward, owner of Chop Suey. Come on over, were interviewing. WARD: Lets talk about Randy coming into Chop Suey Books all the time. RANDY: Whered my picture go?

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Alkaline Trio This Addiction (Heart And Skull/Epitaph)This Addiction is no Maybe Ill Catch Fire, but itd be unrealistic to expect that anyway. And considering how bad they were two years ago, this solid album of gothic-tinged pop-punk qualifies as a comeback. If you gave up on these guys in 2005, its time to tune back in.

Balaclava Shame EP (Forcefield)Balaclavas original route to brutality was slow, doom-like tempos, but theyve learned to vary them with much faster thrash riffs, which makes the breakdowns hit that much harder. This EP is excellent downtuned hardcore with resemblances to His Hero Is Gone and early Neurosis. Play it loud!

Andrew W.K.Close Calls With Brick Walls (Universal)W.K. goes epic. Two CDs, bombastic in-tros, ambient interludes, huge production--its all here. Where his previous records (other than the solo piano one) were just about partying, this one is about ambition. And also partying, of course. Dont go to bed, stay up and rock out with Andrew W.K.!

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devils Tattoo (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant)BRMC have gone from ripping off Jesus And Mary Chain to hazy psych-folk to shoegaze and biker rock. This album throws all of those phases into a blender, and the result, while still a bit patchy, is their most interesting album yet. Blaze up and bliss out.

Cloak/Dagger Lost Art (Jade Tree)Cloak/Dagger have slowed down a bit, and the reduced tempos make their riffs sound more garage rock than hardcore. Jasons singing rather than yelling and Colins guitar leads have more melody than ever. The result is music better suited to doing the twist than to moshing, and I fully approve.

Broken Social SceneForgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)Im not sure what Im missing, but Ive never been as excited about this band as most people. Sure, their new album is a pleasant enough example of epic-tinged melodic indie, but I still cant get into it. The hype train will have to roll without me this time.

Four Year Strong Enemy Of The World (Decaydance/Universal)Hardcore song structures and metal guitar riffs mix with pop-punk chorus hooks and melodic vocals to create undeniably catchy bubblegum brilliance. The Ameri-can Apparel hipsters will enjoy this one just as much as the Hot Topic teens do (if they can stand to let themselves).

Frightened Rabbit The Winter Of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)Ah, Scotland, where people drink too much and wear their hearts on their sleeves. Frightened Rabbit bring the character of their native land to emotion-ally-driven melodies that start off quiet but build towards powerful catharsis. Es-sential listening for the nights when your existential crises keep you awake.

Fucked Up Couple Tracks (Matador)This collection of non-LP tracks is far from comprehensive, but presents a thematic unity uncommon to singles comps. The songs are shorter and faster than those on their last album, which will please the hardcore kids, but theyre catchy enough to keep the indie kids happy as well. Everyone wins!

Jonsi Go (XL/Parlophone)On his first solo album, Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi Birgisson explores a warmer, more song-oriented style than that of his notori-ously bombastic group. He even forsakes his usual falsetto for a clear tenor. The results should both please fans and win over those who usually find Sigur Ros boring.

Hole Nobodys Daughter (Universal)Courtney Love and a bunch of people youve never heard of spent five years making this, so of course I thought it would suck. Imagine my surprise. Dark, passionate, and full of memorable cho-ruses, Nobodys Daughter is the best thing Courtneys done since Live Through This. Give it a shot.

Ke$ha Animal (RCA)Drunk party girl babbles through Au-totune about how much fun it is to be a drunk party girl and barf in Paris Hiltons closet. Hilarious as a concept, grating as actual music, especially with the jackham-mer electro beats that back it up. The ladies will dance to it, though. Trust.

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Japandroids No Singles (Polyvinyl)This is a reissue of the two EPs they released before their first album. Theyre pretty decent, but none of the songs are as me