Twenty years of Halloweek. Twenty years of fake blood, fog machines, and people insisting “Halloween’s their personality now.” And you know what? We respect it. For one glorious week, Richmond drops the pretense and remembers who it really is, a city that loves...
Extending Valentine's Day through the weekend, Richmond blog Feel Good RVA held their first-ever showcase, The Late Lovers Holiday, at The Dark Room earlier this month. Richmond blog Feel Good RVA is all about "enjoying the life you're living." In that spirit, earlier this month they decided to extend Valentine’s Day by hosting their first...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we present a special throwback playlist from J. Roddy Walston, soon to be featured in the next print issue of RVA Magazine. A lot has changed for Walston since we first featured this playlist, back in October...
For Richmond gothic punk quintet True Body, expressing themselves through music helps them find true freedom amid a repressive cultural environment. True Body in its truest form has no body at all. Aside from the bodies of five musicians and their instruments, the body of the music is formless, taking the shape of fog within the minds of those...
FEATURED SHOWThursday, February 20, 7 PMBracewar, Division Of Mind, Combust, Mutually Assured Destruction, Guardrails @ The Camel - $15There's a lot going on in the Richmond music scene these days, within all sorts of different genres. And that's wonderful! But if you want to talk about the styles of music that have a fertile, longstanding...
Bill McElroy has been operating Slipped Disc Audio in Ashland for over a decade, but his love affair with the sound of music goes back a lot farther than that. For Grammy-winning soundsmith Bill McElroy, the art of sound engineering came naturally to him from a young age. “It’s almost always been audio,” McElroy recounts with a faint smile. “In...
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 Kanizzle, a veteran DJ best known as the project manager for Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR) in Black Rock City, Nevada, where he brings together over 70 other people to ensure...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, February 16, 7 PMTalk Me Off, Doll Baby, Pedals, Xed Out @ Gallery 5 - $8 (order tickets HERE)Where music is concerned, Richmond always has a lot going on, and in recent years, that activity has spread across a more widespread spectrum of genres than ever. That's to be applauded. At the same time, this city would lose...
With their recent event at Poor Boys, RVA hip hop collective The Clout Cloud graduated from house parties to club gigs in high-energy style. Richmond’s very own music and culture news collective, The Clout Cloud, hosted its first ever sold-out show at a local restaurant and bar, Poor Boys, on Tuesday, February 4. As this was their first time...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's playlist comes to us from our old pal S. Preston Duncan. Now, if you've been reading RVA Mag for a while, you've surely seen Duncan's many contributions to the magazine over the years, both as a writer and an...
