When Jeff Gorman of Illiterate Light steps on stage, it’s not hype you feel, it’s heat. Not the kind that grabs at you immediately, but the kind that builds steady, loud, and unflinching. Just two guys onstage with a sound that hits like a full band. Offstage is where...
Lazers, sparkling lights, and smoke take over in Opin's new video for "Get Home," which the RVA band premiered on The Grey Estates this week. It's catchy and light, and the beat and lyrics perfectly complement the dreamy, trance-like visuals. "Get Home" was directed by Craig Zirpolo & Joey Wharton and is a track off of their latest...
RVA Mag recently gave you the lowdown on local film collective, RVATRACK. They've been churning out some awesome live performance music videos for Richmond bands like Camp Howard and Sid Kingsley lately and they've just released a new one for RVA powerhouse singer/songwriter Angelica Garcia. The alt-rock/bluesy songwriter is quickly on her way to...
Fulton Lee might be the only guy wearing dress shoes and suspenders that could be described as explosive- not in the sense of GWAR spraying pig’s blood on a crowd, but explosive in the way that Elvis was. In fact, from the big hair to the girls screaming bloody murder in the front row, the whole performance was laced with subtle hints of The...
Sophia Nadia, aloft on a Reston, Virginia garage rooftop, was holding her acoustic guitar, working through new songs that would be the material for Richmond favorite, Cold Beaches’ https://www.facebook.com/coldbeachesmusic next release, when a security guard came walking by. “You can’t do that,” he said. Nadia reasoned with Officer Sourpuss. “Ya’...
When you recall memories associated with falling in love, what is the first thing to come to mind? Is it the whimsical conversations that fall into place with an unexpected ease? Is it the way that one evening can feel like an indulged spirit that intoxicates the memory? Or is it as quaint as the way one feels when they hear their favorite song...
When you recall memories associated with falling in love, what is the first thing to come to mind? Is it the whimsical conversations that fall into place with an unexpected ease? Is it the way that one evening can feel like an indulged spirit that intoxicates the memory? Or is it as quaint as the way one feels when they hear their favorite song...
In my 9th grade art class, my friends Marin and Zach (who knew way cooler music then I did) turned me onto Pedro the Lion. I was given a burnt cd with no album title. It was an epic compilation of gut wrenching songs that helped form the music I produce today - and now I'm opening for the band's frontman at Capital Ale House this Sunday. Bazan's...
For three years, the rowdy, bearded guys that make up the band Dharma Bombs have brought RVA feet-stompin’, booty-shakin’, whiskey-drinking party tunes with their fusion of blues, folk, and swing, a genre they refer to as Appalachian Dixieland. But the group has been toiling away on their latest effort, Old Time Romance, their first full length...
Richmond is getting doused in sludge on August 8 when The Melvins grace The Broadberry with their brand of punk jams. The Melvins, forming in the 1980s, have been a staple of punk music since riding the waves of Washington grunge popularity into national embrace. The Melvins, not far from their 2016 release, Basses Loaded, an album featuring a...
