Richmond has its own way of ringing in the New Year. A little backward glance, a little chaos, and just enough polish to feel intentional. You can lean into loud live shows, dress up for something splashy, or keep it simple with a solid drink and good company. However...
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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...
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...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're bringing you an encore presentation of a playlist put together for us a while back by Bobby Egger, the proprietor of Vinyl Conflict. As we discussed earlier this week here at RVA Mag,...
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...
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....
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...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're featuring an encore presentation of a playlist made for us by Deau Eyes, the project of Richmond singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau. After months of anticipation and buildup, Deau Eyes...
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...
