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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 17 – November 23

FEATURED SHOWSaturday, November 20, 6:30 PMThe Fall Of Troy, Strawberry Girls, Kaonashi, Satyr @ The Canal Club - $25 in advance, $30 day of show (order tickets HERE)Most music in the world fits into nice, neat categories. And that can be fine a lot of the time;...

RVA Shows You Must See This Week: November 10 – November 16

FEATURED SHOWSaturday, November 23, 2021, 7 PMBeach Bunny, Miloe @ The Broadberry - $20 in advance, $24 day of show (order tickets ) Oh hey, how's it going? What have you been up to for the past year and a half? It's been a wild ride for me too, but I'm back, I'm...

Long Live The New Flesh

Last month saw the RVA Goth Prom bring a new generation of Richmond music makers to a semi-private location somewhere in the arts district. Rapper Milesisbae set the whole thing up and brought the gothic hip hop energy from an excited new generation of creative RVA...

Orville Peck Proves Masking Up Can Be Sexy

Masked country star Orville Peck has attracted a lot of recent attention for his countrified cover of Lady Gaga's signature tune, "Born This Way." But when he performed for a packed house at the National last week, it was his own powerful presence that dominated the...

The Vibrant Sounds of Lake Street Dive Come To Richmond

It's chilly today, but Richmond weather remained warm through late October, which offered the perfect opportunity for fans to enjoy the live sounds of Lake Street Dive and Sammy Rae & The Friends at Virginia Credit Union Live. Lucienne Nghiem was on hand to...

Gold, Grey, and Gnarly: Baroness Returns To Richmond Sunday

For the first time since the pandemic, Georgia prog-metal legends Baroness return to the river city with an extended performance at Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House. And if you're wondering whether you should go, let us be clear: the answer is yes....

Anxiety Hangover: An Interview With Mike IX Williams Of Eyehategod

Despite hailing from New Orleans, sludge-metal legends Eyehategod have formed a ton of connections to Richmond over the past three decades. Ryan Kent caught up with vocalist Mike IX Williams outside the National after their recent gig with GWAR to find out where...

You’re Jovian Is Here To Stay

With the 10th anniversary vinyl reissue of their debut album, Stereochronic, Norfolk indie rockers You're Jovian are restating their fundamental sound even as they continue to push into new sonic territory. We spoke to frontman Elliott Malvas about the group's history...

Reckoning With Reptile Tile

D.T. Jones wraps his head around Hot Tropic, the brobdignagian 6-hour quadruple LP released a couple years back by zany musical experimentalists Reptile Tile. “One does not simply listen to Hot Tropic. Its black tones are guarded by more than distortion. There are beats there that do not sleep. Reptile Tile is ever watchful. It is a music...

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Deau Eyes Is Here To Stay

Today marks the long-awaited release of Deau Eyes' first full-length album, Let It Leave, on Egghunt Records. We caught up with Ali Thibodeau to get the full story behind her all-encompassing debut release. Creativity and positivity mesh in a stylistic rainbow with power and purpose in Let It Leave, Deau Eyes' first album. Deau Eyes is Ali...

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Appalachian Aggression: Heavy Music Is Alive In The Rural South

In the underbellies of Virginia’s smallest music communities, DIY scenes preserve hardcore and metal over generations in Roanoke and throughout Appalachia.  Hardcore punk has been burning strong in the fabric of American music for nearly four decades now. What originated in the slums of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and within the urban...

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Uniting To Survive

To ensure that COVID-19 doesn't end independent live music as we know it, Broadberry Entertainment Group's Jessica Gordon has joined with some industry allies to form the Independent Promoter Alliance. The entertainment industry is going to need all the help they can get in the ensuing months. Not only are artists postponing or outright...

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30 Century Spacebomb

With coronavirus keeping the music scene on lockdown, Spacebomb House Band present a Scott Walker tribute that takes us straight to outer space. The Spacebomb House Band is just what it says in the name: the house band for the Spacebomb Records stable of artists, and for the label's recording studio. However, while their day job may be to act as...

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Conflict On The Web

For Richmond record store Vinyl Conflict, surviving the COVID-19 outbreak has meant taking their business online. When the coronavirus outbreak hit, Vinyl Conflict owners Bobby Egger and Melissa Mazula were out of the country. They'd had a buying trip to the UK scheduled for March 4 through 18, and as they traveled, things began to escalate....

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Bean Weatherford’s Refried Country

Plans for the release of his new album, Refried, were derailed by coronavirus, but Bean Weatherford isn't letting quarantine stop the music. Home. Love. Emotion. Those are three words that come to mind while listening to Ashley "Bean" Weatherford’s new solo album, Refried. Originally from Danville, Virginia, Weatherford has been playing music...

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