All eyes are on Saturday. The streets are buzzing with crowds rushing into clubs across the city—come join the raucous and be part of the energy. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com. Remi Wolf, Dana...
If it’s the second Sunday in August, or the hottest day of the year, it’s probably time for you to head down to Cary St. for the Annual Carytown Watermelon Festival. If it’s the second Sunday in August, or the hottest day of the year, it’s probably time for you to head down to Cary St. for the Annual Carytown Watermelon...
The amount and variety of hip hop that comes out from the underground scene in Richmond never ceases to amaze me. We could turn our website into an entire publication dedicated to the hip hop scene here and I still don’t think we would have enough time to cover all the different styles and mixed genres. The amount and variety of hip hop that...
We’ve seen so many hip hop artists come onto the RVA music scene this year and it’s hard to keep up with all their new music. We were first turned on to 23-year-old Richmond native Tuch at this year’s Epic Fest VI, an annual hip hop festival showcasing the area’s best talent. We’ve seen so many hip hop artists come onto the RVA...
Electronic music has reached unforeseen heights in the past five years. Perhaps to a nauseating level that has allowed saturation into the genre. Despite that, there is still a bevy of talented producers pushing the sound of electronic music to new heights. Electronic music has reached unforeseen heights in the past five years. Perhaps to a...
STEPHANIE, the first album by the one-man-band Stephanie, is the sometimes bouncy, often dark soundtrack to a bloody revenge film that never was. STEPHANIE, the first album by the one-man-band Stephanie, is the sometimes bouncy, often dark soundtrack to a bloody revenge film that never was. “The girl on the cover holding a knife is...
Netflix’s hit summer sci-fi horror series Stranger Things that we’ve all become obsessed with will be getting it’s very own soundtrack this Friday. Netflix’s hit summer sci-fi horror series Stranger Things that we’ve all become obsessed with will be getting it’s very own soundtrack this Friday. The OST will be released in two volumes, with the...
Motion City Soundtrack have always seemed to find their way back to Richmond. Motion City Soundtrack have always seemed to find their way back to Richmond. Bassist Matt Taylor and drummer Tony Thaxton grew up in town, graduating from Atlee High, and played together in Submerge, whose music might, might be buried somewhere in the depths of...
RVA’s own Lamb of God returned this year with a new album which means a slew of other new awesome things like videos and (thankfully) local performances. RVA’s own Lamb of God returned this year with a new album which means a slew of other new awesome things like videos and (thankfully) local performances. For the ‘new...
It feels a little wrong to shoehorn Best Coast as a summer band–something light and fun to listen to during warmer months–but there’s no denying their heavily surf-rock influenced sound evokes that feeling. So it comes as some surprise that when performing live Thursday night at The National Best Coast felt a little cold. It feels...
