Richmond has its own way of ringing in the New Year. A little backward glance, a little chaos, and just enough polish to feel intentional. You can lean into loud live shows, dress up for something splashy, or keep it simple with a solid drink and good company. However...
RVA Mag was able to chat with the seventeen-year-old Richmond area singer that is making waves in the music pool. Ru: is a singer and songwriter who is able to spin both her own feelings and those of strangers into beautiful songs. Still developing her eclectic sound, Ru: has only released one single thus far, "Where Did My Light Go." However,...
FEATURED SHOWFriday, July 15, 8 PMToward Space, Bad Larrys, Scare City, Station Aries @ City Beach - Free!When I think of Richmond in the summer, I can't help but think about punk rock. This isn't exactly a universal experience in our gentrified, playground-for-the-rich city circa 2022, but fifteen or so years ago, Richmond summers were all about...
Christopher Adkins Stone, otherwise known as CAS, requested that I meet him at his Richmond townhome on a rainy Monday afternoon. I was greeted at the door by his roommate and bass player in his backing band, Tien. He showed me into a living room lined with dividers emblazoned with east Asian inspired artwork. CAS emerged from his studio in the...
Klogg Wallabee and I used to work together at a gas station. If you caught him in the right kinda light, Klogg looked like he could’ve played Sean Astin’s cousin in some movie. He had a shitty sedan with a dent in the side, a bunch of trash in the back and on the floorboards. Cigarette butts and soda bottles, single socks, pistachio shells, and...
You get 15 minutes sometimes. Sometimes it’s 20-30. Most of the time someone from their management company or record label connects the call. This is relatively easy. It’s often you get just the allotted amount of time, and maybe a few minutes more. Typically, the artist has a few interviews scheduled for that day already, or they’re on tour and...
Almost exactly one year ago, Richmond grunge-rockers Gnawing released their first LP, You Freak Me Out. If you remember last July (I wouldn't blame you if you didn't... for the past couple of years, all the months have felt kind of the same), the live music world was just starting to come back online, and the entire world was dealing with...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, July 9, 7:30 PMMs. Jaylin Brown, Rebekah Rafferty and The Wakes, Kenneka Cook @ Gallery 5 - $10 (order tickets HERE)Music is too damn predictable sometimes. It might not seem that way to you, the casual reader of this column, but when you spend eight years of your life doing deep dives into the work of something like five...
As I rounded the corner to meet up with some members of No BS! Brass at Minimum Wage, an Oregon Hill music studio, I was greeted by Reggie Pace coming out of a small white bus parked on the curb. He ushered me towards a modest two-story building I had seen many times but never taken the time to consider. Opening a gate, he lead me down a...
Folks, if you're not paying attention to what Richmond vocalist, poet, and writer extraordinaire Ryan Kent is up to by now, you're really overdue for a wakeup call on that one. And Dying Comes With Age, Kent's debut solo album, is the perfect thing to give it to you. You might be familiar with Ryan Kent's name already. He's previously supplied...
