Artschool, led by RVA Mag contributor Griffin Smalley, released their debut album Nuclear Sons this week, with a release show set for Friday at The Camel. It’s a record shaped as much by trial and error as it is by intention. “I asked my friend Erin Dakota, who had...
Feb 29th // 10pm - 2am // 21+ to enter & drink // $5 Featuring DJs: Dirt ThurstonEliza Childress (AREA WOMAN) Showcasing (tabling) Artist: Natalie Colleen Gates (https://nataliecolleengates.com/) [A][B][O][U][T] FLUID is the newest (hopefully series of) dance party(s) ANIMAL is curating. To be referred to as "ah dance p-ART-y", which involves...
Friday, February 28, 6 PMBodysnatcher, Born A New, Great American Ghost, Genosha, OnceDrowned, Split Wrist @ RiffHouse Pub (Chesapeake) You know you’re in for a heck of an evening when the Facebook event page features the words “no fighting, throwing chairs, or breaking tables.” If that’s the kind of...
Sunday, March 1, 9 PMLovelorn, Night Sins, True Body @ Wonderland – $10Remember Creepoid? The Philadelphia shoegaze quartet blew my mind when I caught them at Gallery 5 several years ago; unfortunately, though, they broke up soon after, leaving co-leaders Anna and Patrick Troxell sitting on a whole bunch of unfinished...
Friday, February 28, 8 PMBbigpigg, Prayer Group, Faucet, Recital @ Boogaloo’s Speaking for myself, I am totally used to the fact that the world of noise-rock is often unfathomably bizarre. I grew up in the days when the Melvins and the Jesus Lizard were in their prime, so I’m totally desensitized now. However, if you’re a noise-rock newcomer, a...
Monday, March 2, 6 PMCreeping Death, Chamber, Enforced, In Battle, Guardrails @ The Canal Club Monday night’s been slim pickings around the Richmond live music world in recent months; fortunately, it only takes one good show to turn a night from a bust into a boom, and we’ve got exactly that with this Canal Club performance by Texas’s own...
Just outside the jazz mecca of Kansas City springs liberal oasis Lawrence, Kansas—separated only by the waves of wheat from the epicenter of the electronic music revolution in Colorado. From Lawrence, it would logically follow that an act could rise to prominence fueled by the swing of Basie, the birth of Charlie Parker’s bebop, and the wild...
Raise a glass to celebrate Beer & Wine Classic at Maymont, hosted by the Dooley Noted Society! Taste some of Virginia’s finest beverages from local breweries and and wineries while enjoying food trucks, lawn games, and live music from Three Sheets to the Wind + the Rounding Cape Horns, America’s #1 tribute to yacht rock. Follow Beer...
Audra Honaker is back with her second crack at a cabaret. She intends this time around to sing different songs, wear different boots, and be much more inappropriate. BUY TICKETS
Heartracer:Heartracer is an electronic pop project formed by Chris Cosby. The name was derived from Chris’ tachycardia diagnoses, a disorder which causes the heart to beat faster at random intervals. Combining modern production methods with the classic pop songwriting reminiscent of simpler times, Heartracer’s sound is that of anthemic grandeur....
