Let’s be honest: most local summer music guides read like they were written by someone who’s never been to a show. A few safe headliners. Maybe a festival or two. So we made our own and put it all in one place for easy reference. This is RVA Magazine’s...
Hey there, music lovers! Get ready to dive into Episode 18 of RADIO RVA with DJs Devolved and Ben Speed. They’re bringing you ‘Hypercolor’ straight from The Jungle Room, and it’s a ride you don’t want to miss. Picture this: a nonstop journey through some of the best underground dance jams out there, from past to present. These tracks span all...
Next up on Radio RVA, a mix from Richmond VA's rSUN, an up & coming artist that just played main stage at Big Dub & Moonrise fest this past year. Played out on multiple stages at Lost Lands and Wakaan Fests by multiple DJs including DJ Diesel aka Shaq. 'For the mix I was chosen as a winner for Insomniac Radio’s Discovery Project. I...
We are live all this weekend! https://youtu.be/vvyxNd4LOoY We made it to 15 years of RVA Magazine and our friends are bringing the heat this weekend -- house, trap, goth karaoke, club, hip hop, funk, crank, drum & bass, rock, acoustic, and a few surprises to wrap it up -- it's all happening here! Tune into our FB, YouTube, Periscope and...
Canadian DJ Rezz accomplished her mission of bringing peace through music as she blew the crowd away at Friday night's show at the National. Sporting her signature spiral glasses, Rezz had fans hypnotized with her tunes. Promoting her Mass Manipulation album, the show featured many songs off the DJ's debut album. Hearing the single “Premonition”...
EDM lovers get ready for a mass hallucination as Canadian DJ and producer Rezz will take you through a mind-altering experience you don’t want to miss. The 22-year-old, whose real name is Isabelle Rezazadeh, is kicking off her world tour for her debut studio album Mass Manipulation and will be making a stop in Richmond this Friday. The Mau5trap...
Power, electricity, and love are the best way to describe the emotions being felt on the floor of The Broadberry Saturday night. It was electronic artist BUKU’s first time in Richmond since 2013, and I certainly hope it won’t be his last. This time he was accompanied by LUZCID; whose fanbase is just as large, as well as Richmond’s own The Rico...
According to Ben Rellick, Monopolyopolis is an experiment in how many o’s you can fit in a band name. But in reality, the instrumental solo project is an experiment in much more than that. The project, headed solely by Rellick, had been toying around with multiple combinations of sounds and textures for about a year and half before releasing his...
I spent the weekend in Durham, NC, at a festival devoted to the synthesizer and some of the best acts from the show are stopping in RVA tonight. It's also gonna help if you like terrifying noise music. I'm gonna run down Moogfest in the next week or so (as I am still recovering) but one of the stand out acts, NYC's Pharamakon (top image), should...
While RVA continues to get hyped on new electronic female performers, an old favorite from our recent past is returning to show us what the best and brightest can become. Negative Gemini, the stage name of RVA-native Lindz French, will perform during this weekend's Dazeases EP release at Strange Matter, her first local show since she left for NYC...
