One of the best parts of the Richmond scene is that there is always a good cause to support at a gig, you’re already paying the $15 for the ticket, go make it worth someone's while. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, February 9, 8 PMThree Sheets To The Wind presents the 8th Annual Love Boat Luau @ The Broadberry - $12 in advance/$15 day of show (order tickets HERE)Valentine's Day is a difficult, fraught holiday. And I say that as a happily married woman -- imagine what the single people are all going through out there. Of course, a lot...
Reptile Tile is one of the most remarkable bands working in this era of music. They have enough musicians to start a soccer team. The core members all use cheeky pseudonyms: Terry Cloth, Ellen Degenerate, Ken Shiro, Kiwi Clementine, Bury White, Peter Chopoff, Tanith Fox, Door Ajar, and Lorenzo Mozo. They frolic through genres like sonic Scott...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops a ridiculously amazing playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around we've got a playlist from Manatree, the youthful Richmond quartet whose intricate melodies and complex latticework of guitar leads, synth burbles, syncopated percussion, and gorgeous vocals is both...
Take a ride to the improv crossroads of rock, pop, and funk with one of Virginia’s longtime visitors. Burlington, NC’s BIG Something uses the unique feng shui of their sound to build songs around movie characters, almost making them into comics with each lyric. “It’s almost like we bring the characters to life,” said Nick MacDaniels, lead...
FEATURED SHOW Friday, February 1, 7 PM WRIR's 14th Anniversary Party, feat. Unmaker, Black Liquid, Trapcry, Alfred, Minor Poet, Rebekah Rafferty and the Wakes, The Vulgar Bulgars, Sweet Potatoes Music, Jr Wolf, RVA Comedy showcase, and more @ The Renaissance Ballroom (107 W. Broad St) - $15 (order tickets HERE) It's kind of amazing to look up...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops a ridiculously amazing playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we receive a potent musical dispatch from Big Something, the North Carolina alt-rock group with strong enough ties to Richmond to have released a live album recorded at The Broadberry. This weekend finds the...
On Jan. 11, Charleston, SC-based supergroup Doom Flamingo graced a packed Broadberry with an electric late-night set of synthwave mayhem. The show served as the after-party for the Umphrey’s McGee show at the National earlier that night. While Doom Flamingo and Umphrey’s may not garnish comparisons in their recordings, the similarities in the...
FEATURED SHOW Sunday, January 27, 6:30 PM Street Muse Kenya Screening, feat. Gull (Photo by Joey Wharton), Lobo Marino, Mighty Joshua @ Gallery 5 - Free! Being the only person in your band means never having to worry about breaking up. This is probably a big part of why Nathaniel Rappole, who started Gull over a decade ago, has kept on going...
The Broadberry was loaded with spectators last Friday evening, as fans flocked to see No BS! Brass Band, an 11-member brass band featuring numerous well-known local jazz players, perform with their ensemble of brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. No BS! Brass have won over a lot of local music fans with their lively arrangements that...
