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. We can safely say that winter is behind us, and the sounds of spring...
FEATURED SHOWSunday, August 28, 8 PMKidz At Play @ The Camel - $10 (order tickets HERE)As far as the youth of Richmond are concerned, the local artists with the biggest buzz are the dozen or so members of Kidz At Play, who represent themselves not as a band or a crew but a creative house. If you read our recent feature about the group, you heard...
When I went to interview Jonathan Facka, both Tyler Scheerschmidt and Dillon Douglasson tagged along. They insisted; the two Hourglass Sessions co-founders were both adamant that they wanted to see him. They told me they appreciated the whole-hearted nature of his character. Loading them into my Subaru...
You may not know Andrew McMahon under his own name, but if you've ever listened to Something Corporate or Jack's Mannequin, you've heard his songs before. Since 2014 he's been heading up a group called Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, and it's that group who will be performing at Meadow Event Park in Doswell, VA (the same 95 North exit you take...
On Friday, August 26, Nonamis Entertainment presents the first ever Rich City Music Fest, powered by RVA Mag and the Richmond Flying Squirrels. It's all happening at the Diamond -- because what's richer than a diamond? You've gotta admit, it's a baller move, launching a brand new music festival in a baseball stadium that stands as one of the...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, August 20, 4 PMUnited Rudd Fest, feat. Baby Age, Contact, Dark Waters, Diet Blood, Downhaul, Floor Space, Followship, Heavy Is The Head, Keep Flying, Mean Jesus, Two Cars @ The Camel - $15 (order tickets HERE)Here's something I've known for a long time: hardcore kids don't always have the biggest senses of humor about the...
Hourglass Sessions co-founder/director Tyler Scheershmidt and I arrive early to our interview with Erin & The Wildfire. We'll be talking to the band’s namesake, Erin Lunsford, and her close friend and drummer, Nick Quillen. Walking up to the door of Lunsford’s Richmond townhome, we are greeted by David Mount, the band’s longtime manager....
A global pandemic can give a person a lot of time to think. If there's one thing we've learned from the social upheaval of the past two years, it's that a lot of unforeseen things can happen when people are stuck at home, spending way too much time together. From bored late-night conversations fueled by cheap booze, all sorts of new ideas can...
I think the first time I saw Avail was at Dayton’s More Than Music fest in 1993. In an era of hardcore where 90% of Midwestern affairs were just a wall of people standing with crossed arms staring blankly at a band just exploding, Avail provided the experience I had dreamed of since I first heard about punk via the episode of the Chipmunks where...
FEATURED SHOWSaturday, August 13, 5 PMVocal Rest Fest, feat. Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers (Photo by Ashley Travis), Justin Golden & The Come Up, Devil's Coattails, The Great Beforetimes, Tess Fisher, Ward Harrison, Brady Heck, Chuck Jones, Mackenzie Roark @ Gallery 5 - $15 (order tickets HERE)It's always interesting when new labels...
