It’s getting chilly, let's get at it. We got a really good selection of classics and new releases. It seems like everyone in the city is putting out music right now, all part of the Richmond Renaissance. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk...
Attention all fans of gorgeous melodies and awesome indie rock music! City And Colour, the solo project of former Alexisonfire guitarist Dallas Green, will be at the National this Sunday--and you could win a pair of tickets to this awesome show from your friends at RVA Magazine! Attention all fans of gorgeous melodies and awesome indie rock...
You had "Blurred Lines" stuck in your head for at least two weeks this summer! You watched him get twerked on by Miley Cyrus at the VMAs while dressed like Beetlejuice! You wondered how his wife felt about the naked girls (and the hype about the size of his junk) in the "Blurred Lines" video! And now you can win tickets to Robin Thicke's upcoming...
Coming into day two of Fall Line Festival, I knew I was going to be going all over town to see the bands that I wanted to see. When the schedule came out, all I could think about was how all the bands that sold the festival to me were all playing the same day, some of them at different venues. Coming into day two of Fall Line Festival, I knew I...
Richmond alt-poppers Positive No have been on the local scene for a while, but they've been taking their time to get everything perfect before releasing any material. This attention to detail shows on the first song from their upcoming debut EP, Via Florum. Richmond alt-poppers Positive No have been on the local scene for a while, but they've...
I had been stoked about Fall Line Fest since hearing about it back in July. I had been stoked about Fall Line Fest since hearing about it back in July. Having missed out on RVA Fest two years ago and never having been to Best Friends Day, Gwar-BQ, or any of the various end of Summer/early Fall events that are always in Richmond, I made it a point...
Fall Line Fest debuted in Richmond this past weekend with concerts across four venues, food specials at several restaurants, and art showings across the city. Fall Line Fest debuted in Richmond this past weekend with concerts across four venues, food specials at several restaurants, and art showings across the city. Richmond's tried for a while...
Ulcerate – Vermis (Relapse Records) It's difficult to ignore the extent to which 2013 has been something of a high water mark in the recent history of death metal, with bands like Autopsy, Exhumed, and most notably Carcass unleashing their work onto a genre that had become overburdened with sterile-sounding nth-generation Suffocation clones and...
Ever since their inception in 1997, Pig Destroyer have been a band that breaks down genre barriers, reinvents themselves on each new album, and generally doesn’t give a damn what people think of them. Starting out in the DIY underground scene, playing small sweaty shows in DC and Baltimore, the bassless grindcore trio spent their first few years...
“Rap just makes me anxious and acid made me crazy, them squares just made looser and that wax just made me lazy and I still make this song, and I’mma make another…” Chance the Rapper; hailing from Chi-town, has got the masses going crazy over his zany mixtape, Acid Rap, which was released April 30. Chance has surged with a social media buzz he's...
