Nothing but crowd pleasers here. Got some big names in the scene and city all over the city this weekend, surely you’ll be at one? Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com....
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Richmond Live Music Picks | J. Roddy’s Christmas to the Bone, Mike Hawkins, A Man To Cook For, and More!
Christmas soundcheck. RVA has some great stuff bookending the holidays this week. If you start feeling stuck in the house, go check out one of these shows and I bet you won’t be disappointed. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0kdPf_PaA0 J....
Richmond Live Music Picks | Gritty City For The Kids, 49 Winchester, Fightback, Nucleus Trio and More!
Last few shows before Christmas rolls out. Got one more charity gig on the bill for this week, some great locals, and a couple folks from on the road. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com. More information HERE Gritty City for the KidsFriday, December 19thThe Camel And here we...
How Locals Mike Shea and Jonathan Facka Made ‘The Light’
Editor's Note: This story that begins, as too many do, with a clown in someone’s DMs and ends with a camera duct-taped to a toy train. The first thing to know is that Mike Shea tried to make a normal introduction. In his mind, it was a filmmaker reaching out to a musician he admired. In Jonathan Facka’s mind, it was a man in full clown makeup...
Richmond Live Music Picks | McKinley Dixon, Punks for Presents Pt.2 and More!
Lotta Punks for Presents on the lineup this week, and it pairs well with a fantastic show from Richmond’s own McKinley Dixon. Both feel like solid ways to close out these oh so dark nights. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3899rOJ60...
Fly Anakin Lands at No. 3 on Pitchfork’s Best Rap Songs of 2025.
Was giving DJ Harrison’s new album a listen preparing the interview. I’m sitting with the tracks, getting a feel for the album’s pulse, when “Seek God” comes on. Fly Anakin steps into the beat with that effortless Richmond control that comes from years of sharpening steel with steel. Right then, the notification hits. Pitchfork’s 40 Best Rap...
‘Trashed Panda’ Now Fronts Ads and Supports Local Wildlife
Only in Virginia could a raccoon get day-drunk in an ABC store and wake up a statewide celebrity by Monday. After a masked intruder broke into the Ashland ABC on Nov. 30, tore through shelves, smashed bottles, and ultimately passed out facedown in the bathroom, the internet did what it does best: adopted him. The store’s employees called animal...
Richmond Music This Week! Punks for Presents, Erin & The Wildfire, Koffin Kats and More
I love Christmas time shows, everyone's cold so they all pack in together, maybe you're at Punks for Presents, maybe you're seeing your friends play their last show of the year. We got a lot of great stuff this week as we close out the year. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com....
CONEX and the Strange New Gravity of Carver
The Carver neighborhood sits tucked between the highway and the downtown sprawl, close enough to reach everything and overlooked long enough to feel like its own island. So when CONEX appeared there a few weeks ago, rising out of a sunken concrete pit built from cargo containers and covered in murals, it felt like the neighborhood had quietly...
Sound Check | J. Roddy Walston and the Automatic Band, Kendall Street Company, Redd Volkaert & More!
And so we begin the holiday season, wrapped up in scarves and full of Thanksgiving leftovers. Some fantastic shows this weekend to take the in laws to, show ‘em what we got going on on a Saturday. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLVxXvDGCto...
