The week and the music all seem heavy right now. Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you. Sometimes you sway gently to a crooner at The Camel, sometimes you lose a tooth in the pit at the Canal Club. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone...
RVA's hardest-working, most fun-loving Southern rock n' roll quartet, The Southern Belles, have returned to the river city with a brand new song dedicated to their hometown fans. While the band has plans to record a second album this spring, "Away We Go" showed up as a stand-alone track. RVA's hardest-working, most fun-loving Southern rock n'...
While Richmond is privileged to have an active biking culture and community, the frequency with which cars make contact with our cyclists is a little disturbing. Even more so is how often drivers speed away instead of stopping to see how badly they've hurt somebody. While Richmond is privileged to have an active biking culture and community, the...
Rutherford Chang – The White Album (self-released) As the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show approaches, little doubt exists that excessive amounts of ink will be spilled, bandwidth will be taken up, and carbon dioxide will be expelled extolling the monumental nature of those few moments in 1964 [there's...
Not to be dismissive of the first blush of youth or anything, but these days it seems like it's the bands made up of longtime veterans that have the most to offer. Not to be dismissive of the first blush of youth or anything, but these days it seems like it's the bands made up of longtime veterans that have the most to offer. Black Market and Red...
I have never heard a crowd at The National be as a boisterous, passionate, and just plain loud as I did last night when Arctic Monkeys truly conquered Richmond. I have never heard a crowd at The National be as a boisterous, passionate, and just plain loud as I did last night when Arctic Monkeys truly conquered Richmond. Like most of you reading,...
FEATURE SHOW Friday, February 7, 7 PM Face Melt Friday XIX featuring Bandolero, Black Liquid, Chris Chris, Chuck Nasty Of Grayscale, Drama J, F.Low, Fundamental, Goad Gatsby, Jae Dilly, Jake Barkley, Octavion X, Pravda, Regius Green, Reppa Ton, Sleaze, Swerve 36, Tai Wo, The Heroez, The New Juice Crew, Tru Nyce, Vohn Lewis Da SkohLar @ Strange...
British indie band White Lies will be coming through Washington DC on February 22, and your friends at RVA Mag have got the hookup! While this postpunk band, whose music is comparable to Joy Division, Interpol, or first-LP Killers, haven't quite gotten the same amount of mainstream acclaim in the US as they've received in their native United...
The Sands are a band from Bloomington, Indiana, but they have deep roots in the RVA music scene. Jeff Grant, one of the band's two frontmen/guitarists, previously led Richmond's Pink Razors, who spent most of the last decade charming the city with their wry, catchy tales of living, learning, and growing up. The Sands are a band from Bloomington,...
Yautja – Songs Of Descent (Forcefield Records) For all the attempts at transgressive aethestics that metal and punk can undertake, it's no secret to anybody with any working knowledge of either that both reward a degree of conservatism. The bands who sell records and draw crowds are often the ones who can most convincingly imitate, or--in...
