Music is the lifeblood of our city. The late-night sets, the sweat-soaked venues, the dusty record bins filled with sonic treasures and hidden frequencies. Richmond gets this— more than any other city in Virginia. So here’s Weekend Frequency—a weekly,...
Washington, DC hip hop artist Wale will stop at The National in October as part of his tour. Washington, DC hip hop artist Wale will stop at The National in October as part of his tour. Rising to fame in 2009 for his hit single, "Chillin" off his debut album Attention Deficit, Wale has since gone on to sign with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group and...
Nico Fox, the sole member of the experimental music project known as Real Clothes, released their first folktronica album, Modulation, onto Spotify earlier this week. The album combines modern electronic beats and audio modifications with traditional, almost spiritual sounding folk melodies. Nico Fox, the sole member of the experimental music...
The amount and variety of hip hop that comes out from the underground scene in Richmond never ceases to amaze me. We could turn our website into an entire publication dedicated to the hip hop scene here and I still don’t think we would have enough time to cover all the different styles and mixed genres. The amount and variety of hip hop that...
We've seen so many hip hop artists come onto the RVA music scene this year and it’s hard to keep up with all their new music. We were first turned on to 23-year-old Richmond native Tuch at this year’s Epic Fest VI, an annual hip hop festival showcasing the area’s best talent. We've seen so many hip hop artists come onto the RVA music scene this...
Hip-Hop artist @DougFinesse continues to bring the energy and vibrant flows in his latest self-titled project,
"If you notice how I'm the only person here, it's because my dad's locked up right now." This article was featured in RVAMag #25: Summer 2016. You can read all of issue #25 here or pick it up at local shops around RVA right now. He takes another puff off of his Black & Mild and exhales it into the smoke-filled room off Belmont Road. He...
Well known and ever-evolving RVA beatmaker DJ Harrison can always be counted on to release material that's unique to make us get out of our comfort zone. On Friday, the man behind Jellowstone Records will release Slyish, a nine-track cassette of fuzzy lo-fi sounds and vocals dedicated to the funk man himself, Sly Stone. With it's hazy, record-on...
Back before it got cold, I drove over to the Jellowstone Records house to interview Marcus Tenney and producer DJ Harrison of Tennison, who had recently released Crack Music on their bandcamp and a cd which RVA Magazine deemed as “essential listening” in the Winter 2015 issue. I caught their act at The Broadberry (opening for Detroit’s own Slum...
“You wouldn’t know it, but there’s a park back there. It’s beautiful. Linco used to swim in there as a kid,” says Cyrax of Divine Council, pointing to a nondescript patch of trees. On the surface, it doesn’t look like much—just a string of woods a lot like the spots you made the best of near your childhood home. I ask if that was the spot where...
