Come hear arrangements of Kendrick Lamar's album "To Pimp A Butterfly" performed live by a full Big Band and MC on the 5 year anniversary, right here in The Dark Room. Doors at 2Music at 2:30$5
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Love Roses, Brainbuster, The Donalds, Skumboyz @ McCormack’s Irish Pub
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...
Common Ground Fest South, feat. Bren Lukens, Daisyhead, Centerfolds, Something More, Small Talks, Telltale, Nominee, She’s A Legend @ Strange Matter
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...
Meg Mulhearn + Elisa Faires, Dazeases, Womajich Dialysiez, Rachel Lynch @ Vagabond
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...
Madeline Kenney, Rikki Shay, Majjin Boo, Minor Poet @ Gallery 5
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...
El Malpais, Candy Spots, Worse Curses @ Champion RVA
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...
Polyphia, Night Idea, Paint Store at The Broadberry
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 Oktoberfest
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...
Afrikana Independent Film Festival
The second Annual Afrikana Independent Film Festival starts tomorrow and will continue till Sunday. The festival kicks off on Thursday with the opening night reception at the Black History Museum. Featuring the premier of OWN's reality series CHECKED INN and the talk with the artist talk with Monique Greenwood. The reception begins at 7 P.M....
CAPTIVE, A WOMAN IS A WOMAN & SCOTT SISKIND(OF VINNY VEGAS)
RVA native five piece alternative rock band Captive will be performing at Strange Matter with rock band A Woman is a Woman and Scott Siskind of Baltimore's progressive rock band Vinny Vegas. http://www.strangematterrva.com/events.php https://www.listentocaptive.com/ http://vinnyvegasmusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/awomanisawoman/ Doors open...