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Richmond’s Big Heart Collective Shows Heart With Their Charity Live Album
An off-the-cuff pre-pandemic live recording from Big Heart Collective, a fun side project featuring some of Richmond's most talented rockers, has become a fundraiser and statement in support of Black lives. For the better part of 2020, musicians around the world have been in a forced state of hibernation. Most are unable to go play shows, and...
A Trip Through Richmond: RVA Mag’s 100th Weekend Playlist
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally rockin’ playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we've taken the reins ourselves once again, in celebration of the fact that this is the 100th RVA Mag Weekend Playlist! We never would have figured that an idea we had on the spur of the moment...
Three Parts WTF: Weekend Playlist by Say-10 Records
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally rockin’ playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's comes to us from Say-10 Records, a Virginia-based label that's been cranking out excellent releases for over 13 years now. They produce skateboards as well, and while the pandemic has slowed...
Old Devil Moon: Weekend Playlist by Spacebomb House Band
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally rockin’ playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around, we bring you some sweet sounds from the Spacebomb House Band, the loose-knit collective of musicians who give the sounds recorded at Spacebomb Studios their distinctive soulful groove....
Striving For Normalcy
RVA Mag wanted to find out how local venues are surviving during the ongoing pandemic. In the fourth of a multi-part series of articles, we hear from Fuzzy Cactus, where they are looking to food and drink sales to help them through quarantine. The live music situation in Richmond is a microcosm of what’s happening across the country as venues...
Nothing Left To Do But Smile
RVA Mag wanted to find out how local venues are surviving during the ongoing pandemic. In the third of a multi-part series of articles, we hear from Cary Street Cafe, where owner Robyn Chandler tries to stay positive even as they remain closed for going on five months. Cary Street Cafe is one of the city's oldest continuous venues, having been a...
Flattening The Mental Health Curve For Musicians
RVA Mag wanted to find out how local venues are surviving during the ongoing pandemic. In the second of a multi-part series of articles, we learn how The Broadberry Entertainment Group is keeping music alive in Richmond: from socially-distanced concerts to the mental health of musicians. 2020 has perhaps been the most difficult year in...
Jump To It: Weekend Playlist By Summer Starved
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally rockin’ playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's playlist comes to us from Summer Starved, a project of local musician and producer Kevin Burtram. His latest single, "Off Brand," brings him together in collaboration with Richmond rapper...
“Was That A Gun?” Coming of Age with Car Seat Headrest’s Latest Album
Making A Door Less Open, the 12th studio album in ten years from Virginia-born indie group Car Seat Headrest, is an apt expression of the anxieties and alienations of American life in 2020. The May 2020 album from indie rock group Car Seat Headrest, entitled Making a Door Less Open, came out in time for me to pop in the CD and drive down to...
