It’s 1983 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I didn’t go to class much. I took Theater 101 as an elective because I thought it would be easy (it wasn’t). One Tuesday in October, the professor ditched the day’s syllabus and spent the next 75 minutes...
A conversation with David Bazan and filmmaker Brandon Vedder about Pedro The Lion, the exhaustion of filming, and reckoning with Trump's America. It was a Sunday at 11 AM when I called Brandon Vedder to interview him and David Bazan about their recent documentary, Strange Negotiations. I found it funny that, in an alternate reality, David and I...
We are live all this weekend! https://youtu.be/vvyxNd4LOoY We made it to 15 years of RVA Magazine and our friends are bringing the heat this weekend -- house, trap, goth karaoke, club, hip hop, funk, crank, drum & bass, rock, acoustic, and a few surprises to wrap it up -- it's all happening here! Tune into our FB, YouTube, Periscope and...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's comes to us from Anneliese Grant, former vocalist for The Folly and one-half of house music duo Museum District. Under the name Anneliese, she recently released her fourth solo EP, Stay Awhile. She...
Coronavirus has had a massive impact on Richmond's live music scene. We spoke to several promoters and musicians about the future of local music in the wake of COVID-19. With the coronavirus ending live music for the foreseeable future, the music community has been turned upside-down -- not only in Richmond but all over the country and beyond....
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're taking a moment to pay tribute to a legend of the music world who coronavirus has sadly taken from us. John Prine, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 73, was a veteran country folk...
Since 2015, Northern Virginia-based guitarist and lead singer Sean Flanagan has worked to mold his band, The Firnats, into the diverse indie-rock four piece they are today. Their novel style is reminiscent of 50s doo-wop music, 90s grunge, and a wide array of genres to fill in the cracks, and as far as The Firnats know, they’re the only band that...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, as we all attempt to survive yet another week of quarantine with no end in sight, we've got a playlist from Unmaker vocalist Aaron Mitchell to hopefully lift you out of the doldrums of boredom and/or the...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we bring you another set of tunes to help get you through the extended period of sheltering in place that we're all living through. It comes from GWARbar's Jonah Laze, who has been inspired to some...
RVA #39 is on the streets now! Here’s another article from the issue, in which the artist behind J. Roddy Walston and The Business gets together with Kelli Strawbridge for a fresh look into his work on The Hustle Season Podcast. You probably know his business: now meet his pleasure. J. Roddy Walston, of J. Roddy Walston and The Business,...
