To this day, I have zero talent with an instrument and have never been in anything resembling a good band, though I tried anyway. I was always a “writer,” though. I always had a way with words. Hardly the right ones most of the time, but I was never shy with an...
Next Saturday, October 17th, the weird, funky spaceship that carts Thundercat around will land in Richmond for his show at The National. As a massive fan, I will absolutely be there. His is the kind of unique sound that makes a concert a “happening.” A funk so deep it’ll even make Gen Z close TikTok and dance. Thundercat represents a compendium...
RVA Mag and NODDERLY presents It’s Still Our City, a podcast hosted by Harrison Christy and with Clair Morgan as co-host and producer through NODDERLY. "Yavé Rust is a Richmond, VA-based music producer and audio engineer specializing in metal and punk. Originating from Peru, Yavé immigrated to the United States in 2006 driven by a singular...
Chuck Varga, a founding member of GWAR and the artist and performer behind the band’s Sexecutioner passed away over the weekend following a battle with cancer. He was 68. Varga was part of GWAR from its earliest days, co-founding Slave Pit Studios in Richmond and helping shape the costumes, illustrations, characters and general visual insanity...
Last weekend lived up to the hype. Luckily, the weather held out, and Iron Blossom 2026 turned into a damn good weekend of music. Now in its fourth year, the festival has settled into being a Richmond staple and this year didn’t disappoint with a lineup that jumped all over the musical map and two legendary acts closing out the nights...
Richmond metal band GWAR says the Secret Service contacted the group following a recent performance at the Vans Warped Tour in Washington, D.C., that featured the mock execution of a Donald Trump effigy. Video of the performance, which showed band members disemboweling a Trump character onstage and spraying the crowd with fake blood, circulated...
Philadelphia’s Nysa returned to Richmond on Friday night for a packed four-band bill at The Camel featuring local favorites Dayfiction, Artschool and Wrong Worshippers. The lineup brought together a cross-section of Richmond’s underground punk, garage, and post-punk scene for a loud and chaotic night inside one of the city’s longtime independent...
John Martin, the lead singer of Mick’s Jaguar, may be one of the most influential individuals in 21st century lifestyle media. I’ve been lucky to know him for most of that time and even had a chance to work with him directly a while back. Today, for our purposes, he’s simply the lead singer of a fucking raucous, spittle-and-leather,...
Sometimes you have to catch someone at the bar and do the interview. I’ve known Mike Ireland for a while now and we had talked about doing this for months, so after a quick round, we stepped outside and spent five minutes on it. He’d just wrapped another run with I Am The Avalanche, and the first thing we talked about was the tour. “It was...
Lamb of God returned to the region Sunday night, headlining a stop on their 2026 North American tour at The Dome in Virginia Beach. The Richmond-born band brought a stacked lineup with them, featuring Kublai Khan TX, Fit For An Autopsy, and Sanguisugabogg, part of a national run that has been billed as one of the heaviest tours of the year. The...
