Plague Soundtracks: Weekend Playlist By RVA Magazine

by | Mar 20, 2020 | MUSIC

Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

And this week, we definitely had a plan to bring you a playlist from a rad artist who was coming through town to perform for us in the coming days. But then, COVID-19 happened, and made live music a thing of the past, at least for a while.

So instead of tantalizing you with the sweet sounds put together by a band you can’t actually go see this weekend, we decided instead to throw together a playlist of our own — one spanning a wide variety of genres with the goal of soundtracking the interesting times (in the ancient-curse sense) we’re all living through. We suggest listening to this while reading Stephen King’s The Stand on your e-reader. We’ve got everything in store for you, from dance-pop and classic rock to free jazz and death metal, and all of it is totally appropriate for these times.

Don’t fear the reaper, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci

Former GayRVA editor-in-chief, RVA Magazine editor for print and web. Anxiety expert, proud trans woman, happily married.




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