Goose brought their fall tour to Richmond for a two-night stand last week, drawing thousands for one of the new amphitheater’s biggest shows yet. The Connecticut-based band, Rick Mitarotonda, Peter Anspach, Trevor Weeks, and Cotter Ellis, has built a reputation as one...
L’Amour was one of the first punk bands to come out of Richmond, Virginia. Now, nearly forty years later, a collection of the band’s recordings is being released on local label Beach Impediment Records. Look to the Artist: 1978 - 1981 is an anthology that includes the band’s 1979 single as well as recordings from the same studio session and...
FEATURED SHOW Sunday, October 21, 7 PM OH SEES, Escape-ism @ The Broadberry - $15 in advance/$18 day of show (order tickets HERE) Oh goodness. Where to begin with OH SEES? They've been Thee Oh Sees. They've been OCS. They've been Orange County Sound and Orinoka Crash Suite. For their past two albums, they've been OH SEES (in all caps). But...
Johnny Rotten, one of the original purveyors of all things punk, is, these days, apparently Making America Great Again (MAGA). The punk icon, who has been living in Los Angeles since the days of the Sex Pistols, was spotted ahead of a show in Louisiana wearing the dreaded MAGA shirt while hanging out of a window having a pre-gig smoke. The Sex...
It’s not supposed to sound pretty. Richmond band VV’s shambolic no-wave performances have made a mark on the local DIY scene this year. The band’s raw, anarchic intensity takes more from 80s punk outsiders like Flipper, Stick Men With Ray Guns, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks than anything in current scene. Those influences may be more...
Where Richmond rappers are concerned, Cole Hicks is in a league of her own. She established herself as an artist before she even set foot in high school, and she’s been proving her worth ever since. Hicks’ first introduction to rapping started when she would listen to her cousins dropping cyphers (a form of freestyle rapping) at her grandmother’s...
Spacebomb, the independent Richmond record label which has published great acts like the Sleepwalkers, Andy Jenkins, Natalie Prass, and Darren Jessee, will release the third volume in their Library Music series on October 19. Made by Spacebomb House Band and produced by Pinson Chanselle, the Library Music series highlights the record label's own...
Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This weekend as you jam through the post-storm nighttime gloom, follow the boozy, bluesy rock n' roll of J Roddy Walston & The Business on a musical masquerade that will bond your sub-conscious to a sonic highway of...
For those of you hoping to find information on one of Richmond’s next sports bars, prepare to be disappointed. Sports Bar, the Richmond-based indie/pop-punk band, likes to undercut expectations as much as humanly possible. RVA Mag met up with three of the band members last Friday afternoon at their prefered watering hole, Bamboo Cafe -- which is...
Vinyl Conflict record shop has unveiled plans for a locals-only hip hop label. Bobby Egger, owner and operator of Vinyl Conflict, debuted Fantastic Damage Records in early October following several successful hip-hop releases on the shop label. The first two releases on Fantastic Damage will be cassette reissues of “Vices” (2013) and “Triflin”...
