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Crystal Waters, Robin S, and Tank and the Bangas to Headline VA Pridefest 2024! 🏳️‍🌈

Crystal Waters, Robin S, and Tank and the Bangas to Headline VA Pridefest 2024! 🏳️‍🌈

On a steamy September Saturday, Richmond is set to explode with the kaleidoscopic energy of Pridefest 2024. The city’s Bon Secours Training Center will be ground zero for this year’s LGBTQ celebration, turning the Commonwealth’s capital into a pulsing epicenter of...




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Halloweek 2025 is Here! Our Halloween Guide To Richmond

Twenty years of Halloweek. Twenty years of fake blood, fog machines, and people insisting “Halloween’s their personality now.” And you know what? We respect it. For one glorious week, Richmond drops the pretense and remembers who it really is, a city that loves...

Sound Check! Sunami, Deathcat, John Paycheck & More!

Get the costume on, go dance around while dressed as the Lorax. Halloween always gets the city breathing, so go get lost in it. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? I am your guy at griffin@rvamag.com....

Haram: A Forbidden Punk Paradox

"When you say something is Haram it is 100 percent forbidden. You will burn in hellfire." - Nader Haram   NYC’s Haram might be the most exciting thing in punk rock right now. Or art in general. Blistering, fast, and dangerous, they’re an antidote for the...

Small Town RVA! Richmond’s First Video Game Is Here

It’s 1996, and young Richmond native Joseph Cannella is playing Pokémon Red on his grimy, well-loved Game Boy. Enchanted by the world-building, he wishes he could explore Richmond the same way he explores Pallet Town, the first area of the game. The simple overworld...

Review | A Theater of the Mind, David Byrne Live in Richmond

It’s 1983 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I didn’t go to class much. I took Theater 101 as an elective because I thought it would be easy (it wasn’t). One Tuesday in October, the professor ditched the day’s syllabus and spent the next 75 minutes...

RVA Mag Presents: Local Shows 8/20-8/23

Monday, 8/20: The All Stars Tour feat Suicide Silence (pictured above), Unearth, The Word Alive, I See Stars, Stick To Your Guns, Attila, For The Fallen Dreams, Stray From The Path, Make Me Famous, Betraying The Martyrs, Obey The Brave @ The National 1PM Monday, 8/20: The All Stars Tour feat Suicide Silence (pictured above), Unearth, The Word...

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RVA Mag Presents: Local Shows 8/17-8/19

Friday, 8/17: White Laces, Ohbliv, DJ Mike Albrecht @ Balliceaux 10PM. Free. Friday, 8/17: White Laces, Ohbliv, DJ Mike Albrecht @ Balliceaux 10PM. Free. Friday, 8/17: Beers & Banjos featuring The Green Boys @ The Camel 6 PM (Early) Friday, 8/17:The Mason Brothers (pictured above), Exebelle and the Rusted Cavalcade, BTW, The Animal Beat @ The...

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RVA Mag Presents: Local Shows 8/13-8/16

Monday, August 13th: Nick Coward and the Last Battle (pictured above), Broken Fences, Way Shape or Form @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, August 13th: Nick Coward and the Last Battle (pictured above), Broken Fences, Way Shape or Form @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, August 13th: RVA Big Band (photo by Chris Bopst) @ Balliceaux 10 PM Monday, August 13th: The...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 8/10-8/12

Friday, August 10th: Canary Oh Canary, Dangerosa, Parlour Shakedown @ Strange Matter 5 PM (Early) Friday, August 10th: Canary Oh Canary, Dangerosa, Parlour Shakedown @ Strange Matter 5 PM (Early) Friday, August 10th: The Pilgrim, Humungus (pictured above), Auroboros, Into the Black @ Strange Matter 9 PM (Late) Friday, August 10th: The New...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 8/6-8/9

Monday, August 6th: The Brotherhood @ Bonvenu 9 PM Monday, August 6th: The Brotherhood @ Bonvenu 9 PM Monday, August 6th: RVA Big Band @ Balliceaux 9PM Monday, August 6th: Reggae Night with Antero @ The Camel 9PM Monday, August 6th: Adestria, This Mountain Is Man (pictured above), Nova6, Call It Courage @ Kingdom 5 PM Monday, August 6th:...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 8/3-8/5

Friday, August 3: Electronica Weekly presents Gent & Jawns, M.A.S.S Fx, MaMMaLs, Beat Down The Kid @ Kingdom 9 PM Friday, August 3: Electronica Weekly presents Gent & Jawns, M.A.S.S Fx, MaMMaLs, Beat Down The Kid @ Kingdom 9 PM Friday, August 3: 12 Stones, Blameshift, Digital Summer (pictured above), Throwing Gravity, Faultline, Aparallax, If It...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 7/30-8/2

Monday, 7/30 This Old Ghost, The Kindling Kind (pictured above by Locked Garden Photography), Cartesian Theater @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, 7/30 This Old Ghost, The Kindling Kind (pictured above by Locked Garden Photography), Cartesian Theater @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, 7/30 Punch (pictured above), Meth Lab, Wake, Dial Up @ Strange Matter 5 PM (Early)...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 7/27-7/29

Friday, July 27th: NO BS Brass Band @ The Camel 9:30 PM Friday, July 27th: NO BS Brass Band @ The Camel 9:30 PM Friday, July 27th: Face Melt Friday X, featuring 5yve Footaz, Antagonist Dragonspit, Black Liquid, Black Luck, Bonnie Boy Ent, Checkbook, Crash McKie, Die Hard Boyz, Due Justice, Falmouf, Fundamental, Goad Gatsby, New Era Click,...

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RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 7/23-7/26

Monday, July 23rd: Antero @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, July 23rd: Antero @ The Camel 9 PM Monday, July 23rd: Dekoder, Soma, Devil's Hand (pictured above by Tony Lynch) @ Strange Matter 9 PM Monday, July 23rd: RVA Big Band @ Balliceaux 9 PM. Free. Tuesday, July 24th: The Former Champions @ Cary Street Cafe 10 PM Tuesday, July 24th: Pastoral, Rainbow...

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