For as long as I can recall, I have always felt a bit like an outsider. When I moved to Richmond in 2002 to attend VCU, I wasn’t entirely sold on the city. I was quickly impressed by the never-ending plethora of live music taking place on Grace Street at 929 or...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one banger of a playlist curated by Virginia's most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, Richmond party king Pete Curry aka FM Skyline, co-owner of Crystal Pistol Records, brings you into an esoteric world of...
Strawberry Moon is part of who Katie Bowles is. The young band was the brainchild of her obsession with music, and wanting to create her own “stuff.” “I've been in some weird, crappy relationships with musicians who were not always super supportive of you making your...
It's been a great year in local music. The sound coming from our local scene has a cohesive quality that's pushing everything forward. In looking through all these noteworthy videos coming out of Richmond, you get a sense that our town is making itself known all over...
It was the end of 2014 when the future founders of Crystal Pistol Records realized they might never get their music released. The two men, Justin Black and Pete Curry, had become good friends after playing local shows with some of the same bands. They were spending a...