The first time I saw Shera Shi was after stepping back into Richmond’s music scene, following a few years away during the quarantine-era shutdown. One of the best things about catching live music in RVA is stumbling onto “new to you” bands while showing up for the...
Whenever a musician steps outside of his/her comfort zone and away from their regular gig to pursue another project it’s always exciting to hear what they come up with. For local musician Steven Boone, fans will get to hear what he’s been working hard on the last few years on Friday when he drops his debut solo album, SoulLow. Boone has been...
Whenever a musician steps outside of his/her comfort zone and away from their regular gig to pursue another project it’s always exciting to hear what they come up with. For local musician Steven Boone, fans will get to hear what he’s been working hard on the last few years on Friday when he drops his debut solo album, SoulLow. Boone has been...
Ladies, please contain yourselves. Or don't because I know I'm all giddy like a little teenage girl because Trey Songz is coming to Richmond to grace us with his lovely voice (and body) next month. The R&B sensation first made his way into our hearts in 2005 with his debut album, I Gotta Make It and has been making us swoon with hits like...
Ladies, please contain yourselves. Or don't because I know I'm all giddy like a little teenage girl because Trey Songz is coming to Richmond to grace us with his lovely voice (and body) next month. The R&B sensation first made his way into our hearts in 2005 with his debut album, I Gotta Make It and has been making us swoon with hits like...
Jessica Fox, Mariah Hargrove, and Joseph Clarke are no strangers to singing. The long-time friends have spent time in recording booths providing backing vocals to other artists until they were called to take center stage, so to speak. The local gospel trio, known as Resound, released their first single, “Black History,” in February and they...
Back before it got cold, I drove over to the Jellowstone Records house to interview Marcus Tenney and producer DJ Harrison of Tennison, who had recently released Crack Music on their bandcamp and a cd which RVA Magazine deemed as “essential listening” in the Winter 2015 issue. I caught their act at The Broadberry (opening for Detroit’s own Slum...
14 years after his last album release, and three years since his last tour, the odds seemed stacked against Richmond native and renowned R&B performer D’Angelo. 14 years after his last album release, and three years since his last tour, the odds seemed stacked against Richmond native and renowned R&B performer D’Angelo. After his blockbuster...
This year, RVA Magazine will be celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary--and in honor of our first decade of publication, we'll be taking a look back and some of our favorite articles we've run over the past 10 years. Today, we revisit our interview with Pharrell Williams, the cover story from our Summer 2010 issue. It is around 3:30PM and we're in...
That new Pharrell single, "Happy," sure is a lot of fun, right? So much fun, apparently, that all of RVA had to get into the act in this new video from local production company JI Live. Featuring everybody from Mayor Dwight C. Jones to legendary muralist Ed Trask, plus the NBC 12 news crew, the VCU Rams mascot, and a whole lot of other people...
