One Way Richmond’s Show Picks 5/3-5/6

by | May 3, 2012 | MUSIC

Thursday, 5/3 Beats Antique (pictured above), Laura Low @ The National 8pm.


Thursday, 5/3 Beats Antique (pictured above), Laura Low @ The National 8pm.

Thursday, 5/3 Fletcher C. Johnson (pictured above), Julie & Wess @ Cous Cous 10pm.

Thursday, 5/3 WNRN Presents Southern Culture on the Skids (pictured above), Franz Nicolay, The Green Boys @ The Camel 7:30pm.

Thursday, 5/3 Sofia Talvik @ Globehopper Coffeehouse & Lounge 7pm.

Friday, 5/4 Friday Cheers featuring Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears (pictured above), The Preservation @ Brown’s Island 6:30pm.

Friday, 5/4 The Virginia Center for Latin American Art (VACLAA) presents Bio Ritmo, Rattan DJ @ Balliceaux 10pm.

Friday, 5/4 Sweet Justice (pictured above), Kevin Brackett @ Cullen’s Cove 9pm.

Friday, 5/4 RVA Presents REBEL featuring DJ Long Jawns & DJ Doddie (photo by GB Photography) @ The Republic 10pm.

Friday, 5/4 Conditions (photo by Brandon Sloter), Diamond, Life on Repeat, Late Night Habit, Fixtures @ Canal Club (Downstairs) 5pm. All Ages.

Friday, 5/4 Halflit Halo (pictured above), Daylight Burning, Madrone, The Dismissed @ Canal Club 8pm. (Upstairs) 18+

Friday, 5/4 The Boxcars @ Ashland Coffee & Tea 8pm.

Friday, 5/4 Craig Campbell (pictured above), JJ Lawhorn @ Epic Theatre (Former Hat Factory) 9pm.

Friday, 5/4 Steez Promo presents the Subhuman Beatdown Tour featuring Dieselboy (pictured above), Bare, Smash Gordon, Numbernin6 @ The National 8pm.

Friday, 5/4 Boneanchor @ Gus’ 9pm. Free.

Friday, 5/4 Dividing Face (photo by Joe Pollard), Fight the Lion, Gypsy Healers @ Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall 10pm. Free.

Friday, 5/4 Every Avenue (pictured above), The Atlantic Light, Car Party, The Elysium Trigger, Another Treehouse Acquaintance, The Jim Ivins Band @ Kingdom 6pm. All Ages.

Friday & Saturday 5/4&5 RVA Magazine, Phull Entertainment and Gallery 5 present The RVA Beer Fest, featuring a 2 Day Beer Festival indoors and outdoors at Gallery5 (200 West Marshall St.) with the best in local and regional beers and bands, in conjunction with the G40 Art Summit. Music on Friday, May 4th (7-11PM) & Saturday, May 5th (12-6pm) along with 100 local, regional, and nation breweries, food carts, and other fabulous stuff. * Friday, May 4th (7-11pm) Inside: Old school soul jam, Soulpower; Outside Fire, Performance and Sculptures by The Party Liberation Front, TsunamiBassExperience @ Gallery 5. * Saturday, May 5th (12-6PM) Inside: Mikemetic, New Belgians, Black Girls; Outside: Kindling Kind, Apache Radio, Dream Machine, Goldrush, Peoples Blues of Richmond @ Gallery 5.

Saturday, 5/5 Lucy Kaplansky @ Ashland Coffee & Tea 8pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Old Man Gloom, Iron Reagan (pictured above), Balaclava, Hex Machine @ Strange Matter 10pm. 18+

Saturday, 5/5 Vexine @ City Dogs in the Fan 10pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Farm Vegas @ The Camel 9pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Cashless Society, Fat Skippy, Houston Scott, Cha Cha’s Cadillac (pictured above) @ McCook’s Lakeside Grill 7pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Cinco de Mayo with DJ Big Chair (Cam DiNunzio) @ Balliceaux 10pm.

Saturday, 5/5 RVA Grooves presents Mint Condition @ The Hippodrome 7:30pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Cinco De Mayo with Rattlemouth @ Crossroads (Forest Hill Ave location) 8pm.

Saturday, 5/5 Seraph, Divine Suffering, Fall to Eternity (pictured above) @ Wonderland 9pm.


Saturday, 5/5 Clash Party 22 featuring Young Richmond Outkasts (pictured above), Ratchet City, Raige Records, Ms. Dutchess, OMO, G Mook, Bas Squad, 5 footaz, V Marley, RT, King Lusc, Team Nitti, G.S.U.P, Sons of Thundr @ Kingdom 9pm. 18+


Sunday, 5/6 Black Brothers (photo by Philip Harper), Natalie Prass, Shy Low, Spacemonster, Boxer @ The Camel 9pm. 18+

Sunday, 5/6 Buckin’ Comedy Throwdown featuring comedians Kenny Wingle (photo by Adam), James Paulk, Jason Klingman, Dylan Vattelana @ Tobacco Company 9pm.

Sunday, 5/6 To Speak of Wolves, Life on Repeat, Young Statues (pictured above), The Composure, Harp & Lyre @ Kingdom 5pm. All ages.


Sunday, 5/6 Joe Enroughty & His Royal Virginians (pictured above) featuring vocalists Dick Orange and Peggy Alee @ Henrico Theatre (305 E. Nine Mile Rd. – reservations at (804)-328-4491) 7pm.

Written by John Lewis Morgan/originally appeared at onewayrichmond.com

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