Richmond's Nettspend and Vans turned Laurel Skatepark into a canned food drive that was part skate scene, part community pull-up, built around a simple ask: bring something that helps someone else eat. For readers who may not know him yet, Nettspend is one of...
Best known for his work with Old Crow Medicine Show, Chance McCoy has plenty to offer on his own, and he'll show it off in the river city tonight. Tonight at the Richmond Music Hall, a virtuoso fiddler, guitarist, and banjo player will be diving into the local music scene with a performance featuring his latest album. Chance McCoy is best...
Touring behind his excellent sixth album, Flamagra, Flying Lotus will delve into his unique world of complex, politically informed sounds. Flying Lotus will be playing at The National this Saturday, September 7th. Their live show will feature 3D Live’s LED “Ghost Tile” lighting to create captivating virtual worlds specific for each song. There...
FEATURED SHOWThursday, September 5, 9 PMIron Reagan, Nickelus F, Slump @ Fuzzy Cactus - $10I've been doing this column for nearly six years now (I know, time flies), and sometimes I worry that I'm getting a little predictable. I see a show on my exhaustively-compiled master list of upcoming shows and immediately think, "Oh damn, that's feature...
Richmond singer-songwriter Tyler Meacham's focused approach to her music is bringing career opportunities to her and great songs to the world. If anyone ever told Tyler Meacham not to quit her day job, they’ve had to eat those words by now. The 25 year-old Richmond native ditched corporate America to pursue a music career and has quickly started...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an excellent and essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's playlist comes to us from up-and-coming Richmond rapper Big B, who just released his second album, My Life In Words, on all major streaming platforms earlier this month. He'll be...
With their new self-titled LP, Norfolk's Super Doppler have integrated a wide variety of musical styles into their old-school rock sound. Getting to the roots of rock with a dash of soul and some gentle country twang, Super Doppler has reached into their, seemingly, bottomless pit of potential new music to create their latest, self-titled album,...
This extensive ensemble explores a variety of genres and blends them into a sound that has captured the hearts of music fans near and far. There’s no such thing as too much, too many, or too different for Piranha Rama. The local 12-piece ensemble of individually talented musicians -- otherwise known as the Panorama -- has been playing shows all...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, August 31, 1 PMBrockie Birthday Bash, feat. RAWG, Battlemaster, Occultist, Hewolf, Enhailer @ GWARBar - Free!It can be a sad thing, to gather in celebration of a dead person's birthday. However, Dave Brockie was never the sort of person to dwell on sadness, so when GWAR gathers the bohabs together this weekend in...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an excellent and essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This week's comes to us from BlackLiq, a man who has been making his mark on this city's hip hop scene for a decade, both with his extensive back catalog of albums, mixtapes, and live freestyles,...
