On the outskirts of town, a band practices in the midst of a decrepit cellar. A sound combining Appalachian roots, vaudeville-style piano compositions, and slurred, soulful vocals fills the space. Cigarette butts and empty beer cans are scattered around the room. This...
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Black Dice’s Eric Copeland Brings His Disco Noise To Gallery 5
Eric Copeland, founder of Black Dice, comes to Gallery 5, possibly for his first visit to Richmond, in support of new DFA Records LP Joke in The Hole. Copeland specializes in a very wet deconstructed mutant sample-based pop. Eric Copeland, founder of Black Dice, comes...
Stop-On-A-Dime Accuracy, High Energy Abandon: The Intricate Chaos Of Navi
It’s Saturday night, and through the vacant silence of the warehouses and glowing street lamps of Scott’s Addition comes one of the deepest, most gut-rattling sounds ever heard from an electric guitar. Its immensity is primordial, almost unnaturally low, churning...
Sounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon, September 2013
By mid-September, the market is inundated with pumpkin everything, and the sweaty summer house shows have given way to hoodied backyard fire pit hangs and galaxy tights underneath everything. RVA does autumn up right, from September Oktoberfest celebrations (that's...
Local Author James Wayland On Horror vs. Thrillers, Kickstarter & His New Novel
We've filled you in quite extensively about Virginia author (and, yes, occasional contributor to RVA Magazine) James Wayland, and his current Kickstarter campaign to fund his second novel, Dirty Southside Jam. A rollicking thriller about two small-town losers who...
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