There’s Nothing Traditional About Blues Artist Diana Rein. Romanian Blood. Diana’s parents escaped communist Romania in 1981 when she was 3 years old. They arrived in Chicago, on Halloween with only $50 and a dream for a better life. Diana brought her family's strong...
This Saturday, Hardywood will release its Brandy Barrel Cru, its Abbey-style Quadrupel ale aged in Brandy barrels. Slideways Mobile Bistro will be here grillin’ up goodness and live performances by Blush Face Album Release with Gull and Bad Magic begin at 6PM!
Tuesday, September 26, 8 PM Dryjacket, Eaves, Sleave, Nine Line @ Strange Matter – $10 in advance/$12 day of show (order tickets HERE) And here we have some more emo, because it’s awesome. New Jersey’s Dryjacket really impressed many listeners, myself among them, with their debut full-length For Posterity. That album, released earlier this year,...
Monday, September 25, 8 PM Love Roses, Brainbuster, The Donalds, Skumboyz @ McCormack’s Irish Pub – $5 I was introduced to Love Roses’ fun, speedy take on punk rock earlier this year when my admittedly pretty screamo band played a house show with them. It wasn’t exactly a predictable pairing, but we ended up meshing pretty well, and I really dug...
Sunday, September 24, 6 PM Common Ground Fest South, feat. Bren Lukens, Daisyhead, Centerfolds, Something More, Small Talks, Telltale, Nominee, She’s A Legend @ Strange Matter – $14 (order tickets HERE) OK yes there’s always gonna be some emo coming to you in my column, and I guess this is where it arrives, because seriously–how could I neglect...
Saturday, September 23, 8 PM Meg Mulhearn + Elisa Faires, Dazeases, Womajich Dialysiez, Rachel Lynch @ Vagabond – Free! OK, this is two awesome free shows in the space of three days; you should definitely take advantage of this phenomenon, because it’s not something that occurs every week by any means. This evening over at up-and-coming new live...
Friday, September 22, 7 PM Madeline Kenney, Rikki Shay, Majjin Boo, Minor Poet @ Gallery 5 – $5 in advance/$7 day of show (order tickets HERE) The Broadberry’s showing up all over town this week. This show, which is actually the night before that RVA Live! show up at the top of the column (my chronology’s a little weird, deal with it), sees the...
Thursday, September 21, 6 PM El Malpais, Candy Spots, Worse Curses @ Champion RVA – Free! And we progress from one instrumental group to another as we go through this week’s picks, landing once again at Champion RVA on Thursday night to shed the night-before-payday blues with some excellent free sounds from both local and touring artists. The...
Wednesday, September 20, 8 PM Polyphia, Night Idea, Paint Store @ The Broadberry – $15 (order tickets HERE) The worlds of screamo, math-rock, prog-metal, and metalcore have some pretty surprising intersection points at times, and the whole prog-metalcore scene that’s built up around bands like Periphery is one of the strangest and most...
St. Benedict's Catholic Church will be holding its 13th annual Oktoberfest from Friday, September 15th to Sunday September 17th. Come enjoy keg tapping ceremonies, chicken dances and performances by several German bands and dancers. There will be Kid's Zones that will be open till 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/stbenedictoktoberfest/ The times...
