It’s hard to overstate the importance of the Stiff Little Fingers (SLF) to the development of punk rock. The Clash, Sex Pistols, and SLF can all be mentioned comfortably in the same sentence. Not only did they help define what punk would become, and the culture that...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an excellent and essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's playlist comes to us from up-and-coming Richmond rapper Big B, who just released his second album, My Life In Words, on all major streaming platforms earlier this month. He'll be...
With their new self-titled LP, Norfolk's Super Doppler have integrated a wide variety of musical styles into their old-school rock sound. Getting to the roots of rock with a dash of soul and some gentle country twang, Super Doppler has reached into their, seemingly, bottomless pit of potential new music to create their latest, self-titled album,...
This extensive ensemble explores a variety of genres and blends them into a sound that has captured the hearts of music fans near and far. There’s no such thing as too much, too many, or too different for Piranha Rama. The local 12-piece ensemble of individually talented musicians -- otherwise known as the Panorama -- has been playing shows all...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, August 31, 1 PMBrockie Birthday Bash, feat. RAWG, Battlemaster, Occultist, Hewolf, Enhailer @ GWARBar - Free!It can be a sad thing, to gather in celebration of a dead person's birthday. However, Dave Brockie was never the sort of person to dwell on sadness, so when GWAR gathers the bohabs together this weekend in...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an excellent and essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's comes to us from BlackLiq, a man who has been making his mark on this city's hip hop scene for a decade, both with his extensive back catalog of albums, mixtapes, and live freestyles,...
This Saturday, a showcase of several up-and-coming Richmond rappers comes to The Dark Room at the Hof, presented by The Cheats Movement. The Richmond rap scene is alive and buzzing, and the next generation of RVA rappers is here to stake their claim. Many who follow the illustrious Richmond rap scene are familiar with longtime local stars like...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, August 25, 7 PMRed Death, Enforced, Dead & Dreaming, Loud Night, Mutually Assured Destruction @ The Camel - $10We here at RVA Mag have had quite a bit of discussion, both in this very column and in other places, about Enforced's brand new LP, At The Walls, so to call it a hotly anticipated local release would certainly be...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #37, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. As soon as the word broke, it was all over town -- after 12 years of inactivity, Avail was reforming to play their hometown once again. The quintessential Richmond, VA punk band, who’d spent their entire career proclaiming their love for the...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a lovely and wonderful playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This one comes to us from Nick Swartz, who is not only the main man behind the No Lies Just Bullshit podcast, but also the owner of Harrisonburg's Alley Cat Tattoo. Beginning with nothing more than he...
