Editor's Note: Looking to get coverage for your music? We have a submission form. Take a minute to tell us about your project so we can better plan our editorial coverage. You can find the form HERE. As the new year rolls in, familiar faces return and new, ambitious...
Richmond's always a hotbed of musical activity within all genres, but one of the busiest year after year has got to be the RVA hip hop scene. 2022 was no exception, with all sorts of projects going on, both from scene veterans and rising stars on the come-up. Gritty City Records majordomo Johnny Ciggs had an active year, collaborating with a few...
I had the opportunity to catch up with my good friend and fellow Cava Private Dining Room lover, Daniel Harthausen. Daniel is just coming off of his big win on HBOMAX’s The Big Brunch and has been in a flurry of interviews around town. Everyone knows him now but RVAMAG wanted something more personal, so we sat down to talk his business, his...
J. Roddy Walston, frontman of local rock band Palm Palm, is super talented, always entertaining, and doing something a little different. How many people write original Christmas songs? Not many in Richmond have tried, but last year he wrote a few and took them on the road. This year he has a whole album worth of music and is currently on The...
FEATURED SHOW Thursday, December 22, 6 PM The 2nd Annual Deau Eyes Holiday Party, feat. Deau Eyes (Photo by Lucienne Nghiem), Erin & The Wildfire, Ms. Jaylin Brown @ The HofGarden - $12 (order tickets HERE) OK folks, as you read this, there are only four more shopping days until Christmas, and I'd say it's high time we all got in the spirit....
Ryan Kent has always had a warm, calming presence for me. I met him when I was still very young. We were bartending at Sabai, a job that neither of us would be at for long. We established common interests in lyrics and poetry, and went out to parties a time or two. It was then that I learned that he was also the vocalist for a metal band named...
OK, yes, I screwed up -- I should definitely have included the latest No BS! Brass Band video in the Black Friday video roundup I put together a few weeks back. But hey, there's still several shopping days left til Christmas, so... better late than never? Besides, No BS! Brass are absolute RVA legends, and both their band in general and this clip...
Richmond, VA is a great town and we had fun running the RVAMAG & GayRVA Reader’s Poll 2022 to get a feel on what our readers like to do and see. Thank you to the over 20,000+ people that checked out the poll and the 5000+ who voted. The following is a list of the Top 5 in each category in order of votes. DONUTS 1st Country Style Donuts 2nd...
FEATURED SHOW Friday, December 16, 7 PM No BS! 12th Annual Canned Food Drive, feat. No BS! Brass Band (Photo by Lauren Serpa), Lunch $pecial @ The Broadberry - $15 in advance, $20 day of show (order tickets HERE) This one should just be obligatory at this point, right? I mean, after all, it's Christmas, No BS! Brass Band are one of the biggest...
I was recently at a neighborhood association meeting when another resident approached me. “I liked your article in RVAMag. It made me think of things in a new way,” they said (approximately -- my memory has never been the best for things like this). This provided a source of inspiration for me to write another, in the hope, however dim, that I...
