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Richmond New Year’s Eve 2025-2026! The Ultimate Rundown

Richmond has its own way of ringing in the New Year. A little backward glance, a little chaos, and just enough polish to feel intentional. You can lean into loud live shows, dress up for something splashy, or keep it simple with a solid drink and good company. However...

Photo | Nettspend x Vans Keep It Local at Laurel Skatepark

Richmond's Nettspend and Vans turned Laurel Skatepark into a canned food drive that was part skate scene, part community pull-up, built around a simple ask: bring something that helps someone else eat. For readers who may not know him yet, Nettspend is one of...

Photo | Clipse Come Home: A Reckoning in Virginia Beach

There’s something different about a hometown show when the artists actually mean hometown. Clipse at The Dome was not a victory lap or a nostalgia play. It felt more like a reckoning. Two brothers returning with their full story intact. Pusha T and Malice have always...

Richmond Live Music Picks | New Year’s Eve Edition

Editor's Note: We have our full list of New Years events posted HERE. This week is all about New Year's Eve. We got a ton of insane local talent at nearly every venue in town, anywhere you look you got something. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone...

The Best of RVA Magazine 2025

As we close out the year, here’s a look at some of the most impactful stories we published in 2025. Over the past year, we covered Richmond as a living system under pressure, focusing on the people, culture, and policies that shape daily life and determine who gets...

How Locals Mike Shea and Jonathan Facka Made ‘The Light’

Editor's Note: This story that begins, as too many do, with a clown in someone’s DMs and ends with a camera duct-taped to a toy train. The first thing to know is that Mike Shea tried to make a normal introduction. In his mind, it was a filmmaker reaching out to a...

LOCKN’ announces initial lineup for 2017 event

Lockn' Festival has set itself up as one of the few, still massive, jam and rock-focused festivals with fewer modern additions and this year's lineup is no exception. Lockn' Festival has set itself up as one of the few, still massive, jam and rock-focused festivals with fewer modern additions and this year's lineup is no exception. This year's...

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Yoga, beer, bikes and jams both traditional and new – Lockn’ happens this weekend and offers something for weirdos of all types

This coming weekend, Oak Ridge Farm will host the fourth annual Lockn’ Festival. With a remodeled lineup, and a few less familiar faces, this year’s fest is expected to attract a more diverse crowd of attendees. This coming weekend, Oak Ridge Farm will host the fourth annual Lockn’ Festival. With a remodeled lineup, and a few less familiar faces,...

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Floydfest 2015 united artists and fans under the big Virginia sky

“Being in this atmosphere, these people are incredible,” said Annabelle’s Curse mandolinist/vocalist, Carly Booher. “Being in this atmosphere, these people are incredible,” said Annabelle’s Curse mandolinist/vocalist, Carly Booher. “These people are here and they come from everywhere, all different walks of life, but they have one thing in common...

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