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RVA Live Music | Punks for Presents, Erin Lunsford, Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters, Belly of the Heart
It is the start of the most wonderful time of the year! Punks for Presents is back with their first show of the year, lots of other exciting acts gearing up for a weekend in town, keep your eyes open and your ears even more. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit us up at griffin@rvamag.com....
Dispatch from the Lewis Ginter Picket Line
An on-the-ground account of the strike that prompted Jesse Welles and Graham Nash to cancel their Richmond performances. Tensions escalated as Jesse Welles called off his performance at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden yesterday amid an ongoing union fight for higher wages. When I arrived, a healthy crowd had gathered outside the large iron gates. I...
RVA Live Music | Pavement, The Fighting Jamesons, TV Star, TV Battle Stations
We've got one of the biggest indie rock bands of the last 30 years rolling through Richmond, some stompy Irish punk, a stacked Sunday bill full of rising bands, and a new TV Battle Stations track. Let's get into it. -- Tony Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit us up at griffin@rvamag.com....
In Plan 9 We Trust
This weekend, Plan 9 Music marks 45 years in Richmond with a party at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery. Over the past four and a half decades, the Richmond institution weathered some of the most turbulent periods in music history. It closed stores, sold its warehouse and dramatically shrank its footprint, surviving industry changes that forced...
RVA Pro Wrestling is on a Tear Right Now
Last year, Dogwood Dell was packed out for RVA Pro Wrestling. They threw down in front of more than 3,000 people. Since then, they've just been on a heater with sold out shows at Hardywood, pop ups that bring in bigger and bigger crowds, and quietly a small wrestling promotion has become a must see live entertainment experience in the city....
Photos | The Strokes at Allianz Amphitheatre
The Strokes are the most important rock band of the 21st century. In 2001, they changed the dial from grunge to garage, and singlehandedly sent every record label on a scavenger hunt for their sauce. If you weren’t around back then you might think I’m exaggerating. I’m not. The only equivalent in my (long) lifetime is the shift from Guns n’ Roses...
RVA Live Music | Cat Power, Fudge, Tommie’s House, Killing Pace, Destruct
We got the full end of the sonic spectrum here, from some of the chillest indie to the heaviest hardcore. I really suppose that is Richmond boiled down. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music? Hit me up at griffin@rvamag.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0QbqHASe8&list=RDWf0QbqHASe8&start_radio=1...
Good Day RVA is Back and Bringing Friends Along
For four nights this weekend, bands from different generations of Richmond's music scene are taking over Get Tight Lounge. Called Tonal Recall, the series is part reunion show, part showcase and part excuse for a bunch of old friends to get back in the same room. Behind it all is Good Day RVA. If you've been around Richmond music for the last...
Deau Eyes Returns With New Album ‘To Grow Instead’
Four years is an eternity in today’s music industry, especially when algorithms reward content, not creativity. When streaming services punish silence, at the expense of artistic evolution. In this disconnect, some artists race against trends, abandoning the search for truth in their music. Other artists dig in, recognizing that our...
