Grace Baptist Church in Richmond’s quiet Windsor Farms neighborhood is proud to hold progressive events. On Saturday, the Church teamed up with Diversity Richmond and hosted Christian Drag Queen performer Flamy Grant styled after 90’s Christian rock star Amy Grant but...
8/15 Everybody Yay (pictured above), The Zookeepers, Manorlady @ Sprout 10pm. 8/15 Stolen Sheep (pictured above), Snowy Owls @ Globehopper Coffeehouse & Lounge 7pm. Free. 8/15 Flamenco Night feat. Frankzig, Flamenco del Sur, Suenos Guitaros (pictured above) @ The Camel 6pm. 8/16 Fat Shadow, Fire Bison (pictured above), Greetings, Big Soda @...
Cain McCoy is probably best known to you as the face of Slapdash, an underground promotion company that has made its name organizing and hosting refreshingly good hip hop shows here in Richmond. But Cain is also a skilled young emcee who keeps his rhymes fun and his performances raw. He has been tearing up local venues in 2011. Watch out for the...
Starting as an amalgam of Richmond favorites The Milkstains and The Color Kittens, Baby Help Me Forget have become one of the strongest live acts the city has to offer. Their nostalgic embrace of what rock music meant to all of us in our youth is the perfect remedy for nights when boredom is a symptom and whiskey a potential cure. Singer Jamie...
Alright kids, here it is. Evidence of the 8-bit mayhem that was last Tuesday night's RVAlution. It just seems like this party keeps getting crazier and crazier, and next week is possibly going to be my favorite RVAlution of all time: ZOMBIES with Dave Nada. 1) I fucking love zombies, and 2) I’ve been running into my boy Dave everywhere from New...
Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino) With their third album, Wild Beasts create a wonderful amalgam from Hayden Thorpe's unconventional and haunting vocals, light piano, and the sort of well placed electronic effects one could look for from Panda Bear, NIN, or recent Radiohead. Smother contains very strong songs, each incredibly complete unto itself,...
This Richmond DJ has been rocking parties and pushing the dance scene to the next level for nearly a decade. He spins a unique blend of world dance anthems and American top 40 tracks that distinguish his sets from the masses and put him in a class by himself. Raised in New York, his European travels have given him a wider variety of influences...
We live in a world where The Black Ryder need no introduction – simply mentioning the band by name results in an acquiescent nod coupled with eyes rolling back into the skull, under heavy lids and the trigger of smiling sonic memory. But as you well know, we do not live in the same world as everyone else. In our world, Galactus is alive, peace is...
The RVA Music Fest, taking place September 10th and 11th, is only a month away. We'll be counting down the days until the Fest begins by profiling a different performer each day from now until the Fest begins. Check back here each day to learn about all of the artists performing at the RVA Music Fest. This Richmond band is relatively new, but...
Iceage - New Brigade (What's Your Rupture) Back in the early days of the punk rock movement, there wasn't nearly as much of a consensus about what the term "punk" meant, soundwise, as developed later. At the time, the sorts of postpunk bands who were a direct influence on the early days of the goth scene, such as Bauhaus and Christian Death, were...
