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. Blues is on the menu today, sprinkled in with some hardcore and a...
In my role as the general tracker of upcoming shows in and around the Richmond area, I hear about a whole lot of bands that are active in Virginia -- sometimes from the moment they play their very first show. Over the past eight years of show-column-writing, I've seen many bands come and go, and not many of them have made that strong an...
Sometime in late 2018 I was at a house show to see one of my favorite local bands, Plastic Nancy. There must have been over a hundred people packed into a tiny living room, with bodies spilling into the kitchen and outside onto the back deck. Sweat and smoke mixed with purple and green lights turned the air thick and hazy. Hair whipped around and...
Anyone who loves post punk or any other kind of alternative music can vividly tell you how it felt the first time that they heard a song written in that vein. The first time that they heard The Cure or Joy Division, or the first time that they heard the end trails of a bridge in a Smiths song - that strange, haunting curiosity that roped you back...
Casey Graham continues to evolve as a singer songwriter and his current project Midlife Pilot is one of my favorite things happening in Richmond, VA right now. Throw in the mix in his outstanding concert photography and music video work and you have a creative machine that I feel everyone in town should know about. I sat down with Casey to talk...
Next up on Radio RVA, a mix from Richmond VA's rSUN, an up & coming artist that just played main stage at Big Dub & Moonrise fest this past year. Played out on multiple stages at Lost Lands and Wakaan Fests by multiple DJs including DJ Diesel aka Shaq. 'For the mix I was chosen as a winner for Insomniac Radio’s Discovery Project. I...
FEATURED SHOW Monday, November 21, 7 PM R.O.T.W.L.C.F.T.S.C.B.M.H., Dry Talker, Charger Port, Gull @ Ipanema - $5-10 sliding scale In a typical week, it stands to reason that the most interesting shows that happen will take place on the hottest nights of the week -- those being, of course, Friday and Saturday. There are always a million things to...
I was decidedly nervous to interview Ben Reed, the lead singer and guitar player of the Australian band Skegss. Not only had I become over the last few weeks an enormous fan of their music, but I had never spoken one on one with a member of a band that had achieved such monumental success. Although popular in their native Australia, Skeggs have...
We were on assignment to interview Oderus Urungus backstage at Warped Tour 2005. In the chaos that was the festival, he met us by the tour bus and the first thing he demanded is we respect 'the cuttlefish' which was protruding from his pelvis and filled with fake blood to shoot all over the GWAR fans in the front row. That whole interaction and...
Coming up in the punk world in 2006 was tough. There was a lot you had to do in order to stick out from your contemporaries. Let's face it: when the aughts pop/punk era was both at its height and nearing its end, a lot of bands trying to make it started to make their music fit into a mold -- which led to short-term success, but not a lot of...
