Was giving DJ Harrison’s new album a listen preparing the interview. I’m sitting with the tracks, getting a feel for the album’s pulse, when “Seek God” comes on. Fly Anakin steps into the beat with that effortless Richmond control that comes from years of sharpening...
Holy River's latest single, "Spirit Riot," spotlights the two-years-and-counting struggle of the Yellow Finch Forest Blockade and their work to shut down the Mountain Valley Pipeline. It also rocks. If you were to travel to the forests of Southwestern Virginia, you’d find a community of people living in the trees there, known as the Yellow Finch...
Dust's multi-genre collaboration mixes Afrobeat, hip hop, and digital experimentation to create a musical message of progress toward civil rights and away from institutional racism. As social issues and civil rights have become more prevalent in the city, many local artists and musicians have shifted the focus of their work in order to address...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a truly fantabulous playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we've got a set of tunes from PJ Sykes, a veteran musician and photographer who's been making noise around Richmond for years in bands like Hoax Hunters, Angels vs. Aliens, and a ton of...
Recording artist and producer AARNxBRWN dropped a new video and has a new album on the way. His musical journey over the summer coincided with a quest to find himself and justice for his people through protests and activism. Before this summer, rapper/producer Aaron Brown, known to the music world as AARNxBRWN, didn’t consider himself an...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a truly fantabulous playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around, we bring you a raging ripper from Loud Night, a Richmond band bringing together members of Battlemaster and Ramming Speed to make some ferocious, heavy noise. They just released their...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a truly fantabulous playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we come to you with a playlist from Lefthnd, the new solo project from Richmond songwriter and producer Scott Lane. You might know Scott from his years as guitarist for The Congress, his...
On their latest album, Opin trades in a traditional lineup for a fresh approach, in which every member can play every instrument. After their 2017 debut album and an EP the following year, Opin is back with an experimental, electronic sound journey perfectly suited to a year of oddity and struggles. The band’s new album, Media & Memory,...
While our entire lives have been digitized with the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and Apple Music replacing how we view and get our TV shows, movies, and music, the nostalgia of recording your favorite movie or renting and bringing home a fancy-case Disney classic on a VHS tape lives strong in anyone born before the late 90s. The medium was...
After years of firing up the local metal scene with Ramming Speed and Battlemaster, the members of Loud Night have a new LP for Richmond -- and its first press sold out in a week. Before relocating to Richmond from Boston in 2013, Ramming Speed’s Jonah Livingston, Ben Powell, and Kallen Bliss were longtime friends with Richmond's Andy Horn,...
