Deau Eyes continues on her Tour de Richmond with headline show tomorrow night at The Camel. Richmond native and indie rock troubadour, Ali Thibodeau, also known as Deau Eyes, has been making the rounds this month with a city-wide musical celebration called Tour de...
FEATURED SHOW Sunday, October 28, 7:30 PM Titus Andronicus, Ted Leo @ Capital Ale House Music Hall - $20 (Order tickets HERE) It's Halloweek, and the main thing everyone knows to expect this week is tribute shows. All sorts of different musicians from all kinds of different local bands regroup in new and fun configurations (or maybe even in the...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. As you slide through your weekend maneuver, let the playlist of NYHC legends Sheer Terror take you on an unexpected musical voyage which is sure to give you enough soul to battle any of those lingering night-time doubts. Get...
L’Amour was one of the first punk bands to come out of Richmond, Virginia. Now, nearly forty years later, a collection of the band’s recordings is being released on local label Beach Impediment Records. Look to the Artist: 1978 - 1981 is an anthology that includes the band’s 1979 single as well as recordings from the same studio session and...
FEATURED SHOW Sunday, October 21, 7 PM OH SEES, Escape-ism @ The Broadberry - $15 in advance/$18 day of show (order tickets HERE) Oh goodness. Where to begin with OH SEES? They've been Thee Oh Sees. They've been OCS. They've been Orange County Sound and Orinoka Crash Suite. For their past two albums, they've been OH SEES (in all caps). But...
Johnny Rotten, one of the original purveyors of all things punk, is, these days, apparently Making America Great Again (MAGA). The punk icon, who has been living in Los Angeles since the days of the Sex Pistols, was spotted ahead of a show in Louisiana wearing the dreaded MAGA shirt while hanging out of a window having a pre-gig smoke. The Sex...
It’s not supposed to sound pretty. Richmond band VV’s shambolic no-wave performances have made a mark on the local DIY scene this year. The band’s raw, anarchic intensity takes more from 80s punk outsiders like Flipper, Stick Men With Ray Guns, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks than anything in current scene. Those influences may be more...
Where Richmond rappers are concerned, Cole Hicks is in a league of her own. She established herself as an artist before she even set foot in high school, and she’s been proving her worth ever since. Hicks’ first introduction to rapping started when she would listen to her cousins dropping cyphers (a form of freestyle rapping) at her grandmother’s...
Spacebomb, the independent Richmond record label which has published great acts like the Sleepwalkers, Andy Jenkins, Natalie Prass, and Darren Jessee, will release the third volume in their Library Music series on October 19. Made by Spacebomb House Band and produced by Pinson Chanselle, the Library Music series highlights the record label's own...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This weekend as you jam through the post-storm nighttime gloom, follow the boozy, bluesy rock n' roll of J Roddy Walston & The Business on a musical masquerade that will bond your sub-conscious to a sonic highway of...
