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. Another cold week in RVA, luckily we have some warm shows coming up....
With coronavirus keeping the music scene on lockdown, Spacebomb House Band present a Scott Walker tribute that takes us straight to outer space. The Spacebomb House Band is just what it says in the name: the house band for the Spacebomb Records stable of artists, and for the label's recording studio. However, while their day job may be to act as...
For Richmond record store Vinyl Conflict, surviving the COVID-19 outbreak has meant taking their business online. When the coronavirus outbreak hit, Vinyl Conflict owners Bobby Egger and Melissa Mazula were out of the country. They'd had a buying trip to the UK scheduled for March 4 through 18, and as they traveled, things began to escalate....
Plans for the release of his new album, Refried, were derailed by coronavirus, but Bean Weatherford isn't letting quarantine stop the music. Home. Love. Emotion. Those are three words that come to mind while listening to Ashley "Bean" Weatherford’s new solo album, Refried. Originally from Danville, Virginia, Weatherford has been playing music...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're featuring an encore presentation of a playlist made for us by Deau Eyes, the project of Richmond singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau. After months of anticipation and buildup, Deau Eyes...
A conversation with David Bazan and filmmaker Brandon Vedder about Pedro The Lion, the exhaustion of filming, and reckoning with Trump's America. It was a Sunday at 11 AM when I called Brandon Vedder to interview him and David Bazan about their recent documentary, Strange Negotiations. I found it funny that, in an alternate reality, David and I...
We are live all this weekend! https://youtu.be/vvyxNd4LOoY We made it to 15 years of RVA Magazine and our friends are bringing the heat this weekend -- house, trap, goth karaoke, club, hip hop, funk, crank, drum & bass, rock, acoustic, and a few surprises to wrap it up -- it's all happening here! Tune into our FB, YouTube, Periscope and...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's comes to us from Anneliese Grant, former vocalist for The Folly and one-half of house music duo Museum District. Under the name Anneliese, she recently released her fourth solo EP, Stay Awhile. She...
Coronavirus has had a massive impact on Richmond's live music scene. We spoke to several promoters and musicians about the future of local music in the wake of COVID-19. With the coronavirus ending live music for the foreseeable future, the music community has been turned upside-down -- not only in Richmond but all over the country and beyond....
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week, we're taking a moment to pay tribute to a legend of the music world who coronavirus has sadly taken from us. John Prine, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 73, was a veteran country folk...
