It’s ramping up out here and it’s a wonderful thing to see. Friday Cheers is now officially in full swing, and this week Daniel Donato brings his cosmic country to Richmond, just as foreign punk bands electrify the Richmond Music Hall earlier in the week....
Om – Advaitic Songs (Drag City Records) It can sometimes be hard to tell how self-referential bands are being with their titling, but the newest Om release seems to suggest that their nomenclature is an attempt at some fusion of the philosophical and the aesthetic. With a title referencing a Hindu school of thought predicated on the unity of the...
We here at RVA Magazine have gotten our hot little hands on a pair of tickets to the Death Cab For Cutie show, with special guests Surfer Blood, at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville tomorrow night! Do you want to go? Do you want to go for FREE? Well, we've got your hookup. We here at RVA Magazine have gotten our hot little hands on...
COLD CUTS continues to beat the heat this month with Long Jawns and special guest Stereo Faith from DC. Come Party! COLD CUTS continues to beat the heat this month with Long Jawns and special guest Stereo Faith from DC. Come Party! WHO: Long Jawns & Stereo Faith WHAT: Cold Cuts WHEN: Friday, July 13th, 2012, 10PM WHERE: NY Deli
Here are some brand new videos from the local RVA hip-hop scene, with commentary from Roger Tyler, aka RT of The New Juice Crew. You can check out his work HERE, or catch him on WDCE 90.1 FM, Mondays At 11pm-1am, or WRIR 97.3 FM, 1am to 3 am on Saturday, along with Black Liquid and plenty of other local MCs. Here are some brand new videos from...
Richmond once again has a busy weekend afoot. Among the array of choices for your weekend activity, Siix7 will be performing this Saturday at the Canal Club along with River City Dogs, Westhampton Citybillies and Roma. This lineup of assorted rock heavyweights should make it worth your while. Richmond once again has a busy weekend afoot. Among...
Friday, July 13: Beers and Banjos with The Picktones @ The Camel 6 PM (EARLY) Friday, July 13: Beers and Banjos with The Picktones @ The Camel 6 PM (EARLY) Friday, July 13: A Wilhelm Scream (pictured above), The Holy Mess, This is your Life, Family Cat @ The Camel (LATE) Friday, July 13: Ed Schrader's Music Beat (pictured above), Weird Alchemist,...
Hi everyone, I'm feeling pretty burned out today. So I guess it makes it a pretty perfect day for the new video from melancholy experimental Aussie trio Dirty Three to hit the airwaves (or the youtubes, as the case may be in this modern day and age). Hi everyone, I'm feeling pretty burned out today. So I guess it makes it a pretty perfect day for...
There's so much going on in VA hip hop in 2012 that you could be forgiven for missing out on entire crews and movements who are currently making things happen in their own areas. Thankfully, people are always sending us new info about the local scene, and we do our best to pass it along to you. This is the latest new hip hop movement I've...
Some artists start side-project bands to branch out from the aesthetic for which they're better known, diverging wildly from preconceptions and defying all expectations in the process. Iron Reagan is not one of those bands. Some artists start side-project bands to branch out from the aesthetic for which they're better known, diverging wildly from...
