This Saturday, the corner of Mulberry and Main Street will come alive as Bamboo Café celebrates 50 years. Fifty years of whiskey, laughter, tears, and nights most people can’t remember, Bamboo has become more than just a bar—it’s a Richmond institution, a living time...
A Change.org petition to get Gwar to be the halftime entertainment at the 2015 Super Bowl has almost hit 30K signatures. A Change.org petition to get Gwar to be the halftime entertainment at the 2015 Super Bowl has almost hit 30K signatures. The petition, started by Kentucky man Jeff Cantrell, has a fairly simple demand: The time for GWAR to...
On the outskirts of town, a band practices in the midst of a decrepit cellar. A sound combining Appalachian roots, vaudeville-style piano compositions, and slurred, soulful vocals fills the space. Cigarette butts and empty beer cans are scattered around the room. This cellar makes an ideal home for the songs of Wolf//Goat. Your first impression...
Eric Copeland, founder of Black Dice, comes to Gallery 5, possibly for his first visit to Richmond, in support of new DFA Records LP Joke in The Hole. Copeland specializes in a very wet deconstructed mutant sample-based pop. Eric Copeland, founder of Black Dice, comes to Gallery 5, possibly for his first visit to Richmond, in support of new DFA...
It’s Saturday night, and through the vacant silence of the warehouses and glowing street lamps of Scott’s Addition comes one of the deepest, most gut-rattling sounds ever heard from an electric guitar. Its immensity is primordial, almost unnaturally low, churning against the smashing of cymbals and throbbing drums that blare through a practice...
Ladies and gentlemen, Roanoke psychedelic pop masterminds The Young Sinclairs will be returning to Richmond this Friday night with a free show at The Well (900 W. Franklin St, fka Cous Cous). Ladies and gentlemen, Roanoke psychedelic pop masterminds The Young Sinclairs will be returning to Richmond this Friday night with a free show at The Well...
By mid-September, the market is inundated with pumpkin everything, and the sweaty summer house shows have given way to hoodied backyard fire pit hangs and galaxy tights underneath everything. RVA does autumn up right, from September Oktoberfest celebrations (that's when "they" do it) and the inaugural Fall Line Fest to the upcoming hugely popular...
There isn't anyone quite like Matt Seymour in Richmond. A wisecracking ace of a songwriter who practices DIY values that could seem outdated to outsiders, he has been a part of this musical community for more than a decade, and his dedication has never waned. He lives for moments spent in sweaty basements with a dozen kids screaming along to...
FEATURE SHOW Friday, September 20, 7 p. m. Eric Copeland, Karacell, Scoughs, Mutwawa, Daggering @ Gallery 5 – Price at door/All Ages. Eric Copeland is one of the most influential experimental musicians around. Having this member of the seminal electronic experimental group Black Dice in Richmond for the first time has everyone talking. FEATURE...
Fall Line Fest's Saturday at Strange matter gave the stage to punkers of all shapes for a night of punk rock, featuring local rising stars Sundials, noodly screamy two-piece Dads, and more. Fall Line Fest's Saturday at Strange matter gave the stage to punkers of all shapes for a night of punk rock, featuring local rising stars Sundials, noodly...
