This week, The Smile ignited the stage at The National in Richmond, VA, delivering a knockout, sold-out performance that had the venue absolutely buzzing with energy. Amid a fiercely competitive press list, here is an electrifying array of images from this...
KINGS GO FORTH are coming to Balliceaux Monday night! Feel good funk brought to you by Richmond's SOULPOWER. from FACEBOOK post KINGS GO FORTH live at Balliceaux Richmond, this will be the only time you'll get to see one of the world's best new funk bands in such a small setting and absolutely FREE! Milwaukee's KINGS GO FORTH will launch their...
Legendary musician Peter Steele is reported dead today at 48 years old, of apparent heart failure. Most noted as the frontman of gothic / doom metal band Type O Negative, Steele was a bit of a recluse. His influence on heavy metal as a genre and American music in general was significant, and most of the RVA Magazine office is still in shock at...
Circle The Wagons, the newest album by Norwegian metal band Darkthrone, continues down the path the band has been exploring for the past few years, eschewing the hyperspeed black metal of their early days in favor of an extremely lo-fi punk/metal hybrid, for the most part sounding like Motorhead recording Amebix covers onto an answering machine...
Who knew RVA would throw down in such stellar fashion on a Tuesday?! Who knew RVA would throw down in such stellar fashion on a Tuesday?! The Hat Factory, The Party Liberation Front's DJ Reinhold and DJ Doddie of Audio Ammo, that's who, apparently. The venue and DJ crews came together last night and threw one of the biggest dance parties Richmond...
The Nitty Gritty Dirt band has been reincarnated as young, bearded, stoned-out, eclectic post-modern hipsters. They now call themselves the Futurebirds. Like in their past-lives as banjo-pickin’ yodelers, they still call Athens, Georgia their home base. The Nitty Gritty Dirt band has been reincarnated as young, bearded, stoned-out, eclectic...
Filmmaker Peter Szijarto has put together a 10 part series of music videos for local talent Battle Flags and his debut album Color Engine. There is a video for each catchy song that makes a complete statement about the record. What that statement is - is up to you.
Image taken by Ian M. Graham at The Camel Tonight at The Camel is a show you'll be hearing about all summer. I first encountered The Fox Hunt on a small farm in Three Churches, West Virginia. They were playing my friend Jenny Beth's birthday party on the front porch of her Grandmother's farmhouse, and they blew my mind (note: Dessie, JB's...
She slips out of her guitar strap and half-tosses the whole thing towards her amp. Grabbing the microphone with both hands she lets out a scream like lightning bolts as the rhythm section treads steadily onwards at her side. There’s over a hundred kids thrashing at her feet like they’ve lost their minds, and if she notices, she doesn’t show it....
The anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death was on April 5th 1994 and with his passing died the Seattle grunge band NIrvana. It effectively ended an era in music that has yet to be duplicated and hopefully never will. Grunge and the gansta rap movement redefined American music. Its been 16 years. Rest in peace. Check out the Nirvana stuff below the...
