RVA Magazine Issues

Golden Daze, An Arts Issue

anthony — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:29:55 -0500

Burnt Offerings

anthony — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:42:02 -0500

The Official Best Friend's Day Guide

anthony — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:59:31 -0500

Irregular Broadcast, A Selection Of Sounds From RVA

anthony — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:10:46 -0400

The RVA Photo Issue

anthony — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:05:50 -0400

Dream In RGB

anthony — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:17:14 -0400

Ahhh, spring in Richmond. That brief time when you can go outside without a pea-coat or melting into a heap of sweat and sagging skin. To commemorate the experience, we’re once again bringing you the adventures of them crazy Books On Wheels kids, investigating the suspicious do-goodery of Tricycle Gardens, and telling you where to get your picnic vittles in this month’s Cheap Eats. Then we explore the strange parallels between Illustration and veterinary assistants, This Is How We Do It teaches you how not to get a blowjob, and we raise some hell with Josh Small and Tim Barry. Strangeness with Enon and the unassailable awesomeness of The Silent Music Revival join And Now Beating The Eardrums album reviews to rep good music hard.

F O U R

anthony — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:15:24 -0400

WooHoo! 4 More Years! 4 More Years! And….when do we sleep? On this, our fourth anniversary, we bring you more of that beer soaked creative genius that has given us shit to write about since 2005. Crack open a celebratory cold one as Liza Kate talks about what doesn’t need to be said, a couple of Richmonders get sick as hell and search for PBR and good shows at SXSW, and May Day brings in a parade and paintings of dead white men to Repressed IV. Also: Art by Matt Lively, and Mike Moses, and the Squirrely Girls, Cheap Eats: Pizza, and Gonzo photography of what you might not remember happening at Slaughterama 6. Cheers!

With Bloodshot Eyes

anthony — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:55:23 -0400

Unadulterated radness, man. *rubs eyes* Richmond’s identity spreads it’s legs across our pages, not unlike the burlesque models of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Young Widows make records with skulls, we hang around Chimbo with Foundation, and someone actually finds Jonathan Vassar. Pulp Tones makes sounds for our new depression, and we throw in a few album reviews of no one’s humble opinion. Then we get you some of that gooood shit by Klutch and Genevieve Castree, and of course lots of sexy people modeling clothes in trashcan alleys.

Blurred Vision

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:21:03 -0400

In this issue RVA holds hands with the nation and looks both ways before jumping into the street and dancing in celebration of the new Commander In Chief, who, perhaps most importantly, is not George Bush. In completely related news Mike Rutz and Talia Miller talk about sex, and why we can’t talk about it, discussions with Brainworms, Fucked Up, and The Hot Seats (who believe it or not, are all bands), a glance at the art of Tyler Thomas, and why Sweet Tease Burlesque needs a long, long bath in a very tiny tub. Also, the first installment of Identity: Richmond and fashionable photos of drunks, acid freaks, and um, ghosts?

Year In Review

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:22:54 -0400

Apparently in 2008 Richmond’s brain exploded and splattered itself all over the walls and stages of our strange city. So we did what any self-respecting publication would do, and sopped up the carnage with crumpled scrap paper and some photographs we found in the aftermath. The result you see before you is a culturally ADD rundown of everything you did, should have done, or better check the fuck out before the rest of the world catches on and it’s not cool anymore. Noah Scalin, WRIR, Nathan Joyce, Catalyst, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Tricycle Gardens, and The Ghostprint Gallery, just for a tiny taste.

Grand Illusions

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:26:19 -0400

Gay marriage, The Faison School for Autism, art about immigrants and slave ships, and the consummate brutality of Metalocalypse. If you want a neat presentation of a culture with common and identifiable interests, move to a city that has one. Did we mention Strike Anywhere, Lamb of God, Off With Their Heads, Greta Brinkman, and The Landmines? We can agree on one thing, Richmond, we can agree to rock. Check out the fashion spread to see how much hotter supporting local businesses makes you.

Anything Can Happen

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:31:44 -0400

Greetings from Richmond, where the Dirty South begins! Listen as Dave Brockie broods on the suckery of Fed Ex field, read dispatches from the Obama victory party at Grant Park, and treat yourself to music interviews with the likes of Broken Social Scene and our town’s very own Hot Lava. Peruse the down-home photography of Kevin Hennessey, paintings of Amanda Wachob, and get your a Skull A Day with Noah Scalin. Everything you’d want in a family vacation destination!

Freedom of Choice

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:34:08 -0400

GAA! WTF? With Halloweek a dark silhouette on the horizon, RVA brings you The Misfits, chain smoking lobsters and other unsettling sculptures by Johnston Foster, and a Halloween mix by music junkie Lauren Vincelli. Ian Graham discusses the more disturbing aspects of Democratic party politics, Pulp Tones tackles the socialization of pop, and we all blush as Richmond gets an enema. Come on in children, we won’t hurt you…

So False, It's True

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:51:45 -0400

Ahh, the sweet smell of teargas in the morning. Get your vicarious revolution on as we report from the violent storm of rubber bullets at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, discuss which politicians and Supreme Court justices need a blow job, and call America an idiot. There’s also a veritable art explosion for the quiet destruction of your cerebral cortex, featuring the inimitable robot world of Nick Kuszyk, Chris Milk Hulbert’s ever evolving “canvas”, and a whole rack of creative minds down with consciousness dropping Hamiltons for Art 180. On the music front, Bio Ritmo makes you shake your ass, hard, and Julie Karr preaches the evangel of making a damn good song. On a sadder note, we wipe our eyes and bid farewell to Fashion Editor, mover, shaker, and all around Badass Christian Detres. We’ll miss you buddy. Check out his last RVA fashion spread, Paper Dolls, and try to refrain from getting all emo about how the genius behind it has moved on to the brutal pastures of NYC.

A Long and Winding Road

gabriel — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:54:27 -0400

Is you a boy or is you a girl? You’ll have plenty of time to figure it out as we bring the artistic androgyny and weirdly haunting portraits of painters Tim Harriss and Jamie Pocklington straight from the walls of the Eric Schindler Gallery. Then we take you deep into the vortex of uncertainty: tag along as we experiment with sanity, fire, and mushroom “porridge” in the lost city of Mysteria, and return with no idea what the fuck just happened. When the walls stop moving we report on finding things to look at other than half-nekkid tweens at the Vans Warped Tour, and some bands that were there too. Sell out (or maybe not) with a fresh cup of Pulp Tones, and have a civilized conversation with The Riot Before. Watch in astonishment as Chris Bopst does unholy things to the late Jesse Helms’ much touted God! See the amazing antics of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus! And we dare you, no double dog dare you, to stop staring at the fashion spread. BTW, anyone have that model’s phone number?!?

Languid & Bittersweet

anthony — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:56:19 -0400

What’s sexier than Gogol Bordello whipping Toad’s Place into a gypsy-punk dance frenzy? You gazing longingly at the photographs we got at the show. We all start wearing purple and grapple with Murphy’s Law and the urge to swoon in our interview with front man Eugene Hutz. Stomp your feet to the folk-transcendent jams of Hoots and Hellmouth, then pop your genre clutch right into the tour diary of Municipal Waste. With Best Friends Day right around the proverbial corner, we provide you, dear reader, with a rundown of the festivities to come, including an interview with Hadad’s Lake owner Ron Hadad, and a feature on the bands scheduled to wreck your eardrums. Almost famous local artist Adam Juresko pastes angry felines and handguns all over our sweet and innocent little pages, and the discreet Mr. Bopst discusses colostitutes. Also: Hasil Adkins, Lamb of God’s Walk With Me In Hell video, some opinions, and people in bikinis.

Not Right Now, But Now

anthony — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:41:30 -0400

Just when you thought the economy was having a great time, chatting everyone up and buying rounds for strangers, it starts to stumble and vomit all over it’s own shoes. We rehash the drama like begrudging friends who had to sling it’s drunk ass over our shoulders and haul it out of the bar. Then we have a talk with a much more suave Big Daddy Kane, ask Wheelbite 21 questions, and have a shared moment with Denali. Drawing Blood brings the extra-epidermal work of tattoo artists to Ghostprint Gallery, and the Squirrelly Girls put the outdoors in the gallery for Squirrel-O-Rama. Pulp Tones gets a little lonely this time around, effectively begging the question: Do we listen to pop music because we’re miserable, or are we miserable because we listen to pop music? Chris Bopst discusses fornicating nuns, and we’re still trying to figure out what the hell Scientology actually is.

Read it. Not now, but right now.

Pretzel Logic

anthony — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:52:26 -0400

The lawmakers are poised to strike Salvia Divinorum from the list of legal psychonautical avenues, crushing thousands of years of spiritual utilization under the same heavy boot that landed on the roach of our forefathers. Watch as we document Richmond’s last legal forays into the realms of the unknown with the Diviner’s Sage. We also cough out a trippy and disturbing cloud of art and music, including a good hard look at the infamous GWAR, and an exploration of the horrifying carnival that is Mickael Broth’s imagery. Pulp Tones explores the delicate and shifting lines between genius, madness, and the assholes who can’t tell the difference, and we round out our psychological terror storm with the first installment of an investigation into Scientology. For those of you who prefer a closer mental proximity with the ground, we have provided a preview of the upcoming Richmond Illustrator’s Club show, as well as a collection of work by skateboarders from around the country. Also: CD Reviews, an NYC music mix, and the reconstructed fashion of Mandate of Heaven.

3 Years and Counting

anthony — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:02:33 -0400

No matter how much you love Richmond, at some point you’ve got to get the fuck out. For our third anniversary we hit the road, entertain ourselves with the aromas of different rivers, and return with something to talk about other than the mysterious perma-scabs you get from swimming in the James. Follow Books On Wheels in their mission to fix bikes and distribute literature to the masses in Pensacola, New Orleans, and Austin. Join us (but skip the long-ass flight) as we ponder human rights, sun drenched beaches, spirituality, and Vodka in Israel. Music for the ride includes the Drive By Truckers, Ann Beretta, Girl Talk, and Prabir And The Substitutes share some images of their own trip. We mark time with the best tattoo artists in RVA, and talk with Ed Trask about living in our fair city, because eventually, you’ll be back. They all come back.

BRAINFREEZE

anthony — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:08:19 -0400

Coming soon to a coffee shop, barstool, or dirty Fan apartment near you! Colors, lights, and eyes: Dalek paints the inner gears and cosmos of the new art world, which is possibly analogous to the psychological landscape of Daniel Johnston, who we take a rather intimate look at in this, the last issue of our third volume. Macrock slams it’s head against Harrisonburg for the XI time, we have a learning experience with Clutch, and then forget it all over again with beer-soaked performance-rockers, Monotonix. Soulpower dons bell bottoms and brings Richmond into an international community of booty shakers, and The James River and French Film Festivals double team your latent cinemaphillic tendencies. Slaughterama 5 comes to Hell’s Isle, so now might be a good time to invest in health insurance. And PBR. Lots of PBR.