Jeff Terich

California, Richmond

Copy Editor and Reporter at Richmond Times-Dispatch

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Treble Zine

Reading/writing: Richmond Times-Dispatch. Guitar/Vocals: @bloodponies. Thoughts about music: @treblezine

Articles

Sumac and Moor Mother : The Film

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

In 2022 at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, gave a 90-minute performance as part of a series called “Test Pattern,” presented as a single, continuous, multi-dimensional multimedia piece with no separation of songs or setlist to speak of.
6 Great new metal albums with a vintage aesthetic

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Metalheads are just as nostalgic as anyone else. Don’t let us tell you otherwise. Sometimes it’s for the lo-fi early ’90s sound of Norwegian black metal, and sometimes it’s for that burst of creativity that happened in the 2000s, when labels such as Hydra Head and Southern Lord began to flourish, and we all heard Leviathan for the first time.
Eli Winter : A Trick of the Light

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

In a little under a decade’s time, guitarist Eli Winter has expanded his parameters from solo acoustic performances of hypnotically graceful open-tuned pieces to more collaborative full-band arrangements that blur the lines between folk, rock and jazz. His 2022 self-titled album delivered some of the most lushly crafted music of his career—featuring contributions from the likes of Ryley Walker, David Grubbs and jaimie branch—arriving like a verdant landscape coming into full bloom.
Embezzler eluded authorities, inspired songs, bumper stickers

1 week ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

Clyde B. Pitchford Jr. kept anything but a low profile. Whether it was his chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, or donations of thousands of dollars to political candidates and arts organizations, the 31-year-old investment broker made his presence known. So it was hard not to notice when, after a hotel stay in New York on Feb. 12, 1986, Pitchford didn’t return to his Richmond home. "This guy is a complete mystery," said New York Detective Lt. Thomas J.
7 concerts to see this week in Richmond: Gillian Welch, Bully, and more

1 week ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

This week’s must-see live performances in Richmond include a Grammy-award winning Americana duo, a homegrown singer/songwriter, and a band of New Orleans legends. May 2With the kickoff of the Friday Cheers series at Brown’s Island, outdoor concert season is officially open. First up is Texas group Chaparelle, whose vintage country sound evokes the ‘50s and ‘60s-era records by the likes of Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.
Model/Actriz : Pirouette

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Model/Actriz rarely opt for a scalpel when a sledgehammer will do. The band, formed in Boston and now based in New York, form magnificent and powerfully physical monuments of artfully sculpted noise and hypnotic rhythm. Theirs is music meant for dancing as an act of acrobatic contortion—sensual yet stormy, less a noise rock band in the Amphetamine Reptile sense of the word than in the lineage from Liars to Fuck Buttons to Gilla Band.
Stop Polio Sunday campaign administered 1 million vaccines

2 weeks ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

The spread of polio in the early 1950s precipitated a nationwide health crisis. The disease infected tens of thousands, most of them children, often causing paralysis or even death. The introduction of the Salk vaccine in 1955 had mostly eradicated the disease nationwide, but as small outbreaks curved back upward in Virginia in the 1960s, the push to have every person in the Richmond area vaccinated was revived with a renewed sense of urgency.
Commissioned by Jefferson, the State Penitentiary in Richmond closed in 1990

3 weeks ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

In the waning days of the Virginia State Penitentiary, the iron bars on its cell doors had become covered in rust. The paint on its walls cracked and peeled and water steadily trickled in its shower rooms. When it finally shuttered in December 1990, its inmates were ready to leave. “The conditions are so bad here, almost anything would be better,” said Alfred Congdon, an inmate who was transferred to Mecklenburg Correctional Center.
Scowl : Are We All Angels

4 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

For a band that began their debut album with a song as explosive as “Bloodhound,” Scowl never kept their penchant for pop immediacy hidden. On that same album, 2021’s How Flowers Grow, the Santa Cruz band likewise offered a moment of hook-laden levity in “Seeds to Sow,” finding vocalist Kat Moss trading searing growls for a melodic singing style while the band aimed for a more anthemic approach—not to mention its use of saxophone.
Gentle Leader XIV : Joke in the Shadow

1 month ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Gentle Leader XIV evoke a sense of grandeur through the sparsest of means. The drama that the Ohio group harness and sculpt on “Pig Dream,” the leadoff track on their second album Joke In the Shadow, suggests something so much bigger than it is.