Punk, metal, thrash and hardcore music fans rejoice! Welcome to Punk Report RVA, your go-to source for all things mosh worthy in Richmond, VA. Every week, I, CJ, will bring you the latest shows, releases and reviews with the bands of the underground hardcore music...
This rapper and occasional producer hails from the Petersburg area and brings his hardcore boom-bap style to the local rap game. He's done three volumes of his Precipitation mixtape series, which are available for free from his label, Smooth Dirty Productions, and has collaborated with talented local hip-hop crew Suburban District. Expect to hear...
This six-man hip-hop crew have got plenty of Southern-style jams to get the party started and the crowd hyped. Each of the members has their own distinctive rhyming style and the results of their collaboration are clearly greater than the sum of its parts. Their newest mixtape, I'm An Outkast And I Don't Care, dropped this spring and features...
This veteran acoustically-driven local group mixes folk, funk, jazz, and rock styles in a manner that some might associate with jam bands, but also recalls groups like Sublime, The Wallflowers, and Counting Crows. Their album Falling Anyway has been out for a few years now but is still available and gives a good idea of what this band is capable...
This local singer and model, who just recently signed with Night Life Promotions, has been performing her original songs around town lately at places like The Camel and RVAlution. Her soulful vocals bring an element of classic house music to the electronic backing tracks laid down by NLP's DJ M.A.S.S. Fx. Expect her to dominate the stage whenever...
HeavyGrinder was born in Seattle and spent her teenage years traveling the globe as a model before settling down in LA and beginning her DJ career. She has performed all over the United States and the world, headlining the biggest clubs from Los Angeles to Ibiza. She's released singles on labels like Star Fruits and Soundmen On Wax, and had an...
Canary Oh Canary take elements of shoegaze and experimental rock to create a style that is entirely their own. In just a little under a year playing out, the group has already developed a strong fan base (with even Kyle Harris of Diamond Center calling them one of his favorites from Richmond). It’s no surprise that they will be sharing the stage...
It's def gonna be a wild weekend. Stroll through the Deli and get your mind right with Audio Ammo. Pure destruction awaits. WHO: Long Jawns & DJ Doddie WHAT: RVA Presents Audio Ammo WHEN: Friday, August 19th 2011 WHERE: New York Deli It's def gonna be a wild weekend. Stroll through the Deli and get your mind right with Audio Ammo. Pure...
Loss – Despond (Profound Lore Records) “When I was a little boy, my mother used to sing me a song. It went like this: 'Life is short, life is shit, and soon it will be over'” Versatility is a much-trumpeted creative virtue – often-praised are the artists who can explore the manifold aspects of the human experience through whatever variety of hue...
It took just over thirty seconds for All Out Revolution – the second album by The Red Plastic Buddha – to get its hooks in us. That’s when the simple “oh-oh-oh-ohhh’s” started dancing over an equally simple bass line and in an instant, the revolution was on. Mixing classically-cultivated psych-rock influences (Zombies and Kinks and Seeds, oh my!)...
