RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 7/6-7/8

by | Jul 6, 2012 | WORLD MUSIC

Friday, 7/6 WRIR and The Commonwealth of Notions presents: The Big East, The Trillions, David Shultz and Friends, Ben Shepherd @ Cellar Door 10 PM


Friday, 7/6 WRIR and The Commonwealth of Notions presents: The Big East, The Trillions, David Shultz and Friends, Ben Shepherd @ Cellar Door 10 PM

Friday, 7/6 The Air Sex National Championship Tour @ Strange Matter 9 PM

Friday, 7/6 Electronica Weekly Presents: Alley Rats Party featuring God Made Dirt, A.D.E.N, Erik Fox, SKYWALK3R, ELI CASH @ Kingdom 9 PM

Friday 7/6 William Stull Band, the Garbers, the Blue Rajas (pictured above) @ The Nile 9 PM

Friday, 7/6 Benefit for Brain & Pediatric Cancer Research in Memory of David Pearson featuring MyWay, Margot MacDonald (pictured above), The Letting Go, Tom Eats Jerry @ The Canal Club 7:30 PM

Friday, 7/6 Ishtar, Khalima, Maharal @ Balliceaux 10 PM

Friday, 7/6 Chamomile And Whiskey @ Capital Ale House 9 PM

Friday, 7/6 Deathpunk Playhouse with The Apocalypse Dudes, Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 (pictured above) @ Wonderland 10 PM

Friday, 7/6 Mills Family Band (Photo by Russell Steele) @ Ashland Coffee And Tea 8 PM

Friday, 7/6 The Farewell Mitchell Show with Ghost Owls (pictured above), Woolens @ Bogarts In The Fan 9 PM

Friday, 7/6 Black Girls (pictured above), The Hill and Wood, River Whyless @ The Camel 9:30 PM

Friday, 7/6, and Saturday, 7/7 Professor Bless And The Dancing Madwoman present Sidewalk Cabaret @ 3100 Block of W. Cary St. (on the sidewalk near Sweet Fully Rely On God) 8:30 PM

Saturday, 7/7 A.P.E. Benefit Jam For A Richmond Skatepark, featuring People’s Blues Of Richmond, Steven Dukes, Who Took Fed, DJ Skywalk3r, A.D.E.N. @ Colonial Heights Skatepark (3451 Conduit Rd, Colonial Heights VA 23834) 2 PM

Saturday, 7/7 Cole’s B-day Party: Proceeds go to Ride or Cry 2012 Richmond Moped Collective Rally, featuring Bearstorm (pictured above), Man takes the Sky, Mothball Fleet @ Emilios 8 PM

Saturday, 7/7 Tacocat (pictured above), Slutever, Vaginasaurs, Gunboat @ Strange Matter 6 PM (Early)

Saturday, 7/7 Apocalypse Dudes, Iggy Plop, Static Age @ Strange Matter 10 PM (Late)

Saturday, 7/7 Hold Today, Silence Is A Burden, As We Set Fire, A Collegiate Affair, Cinder Cove @ The Canal Club 7 PM

Saturday, 7/7 People’s Art House Of Richmond Bad Ass Inaugural Bash, featuring acoustic sets from Coffee Stainz, Christie Siamo, Nathan Hess, Johnathan Barnes, Megan Parochka, Nick Durand, Rachel Garcia & Ernest Morris; full band performances by Wolf//Goat, Brad Moss & The First Kind, Bi-Planes, The Mothball Fleet, Al-Kafir, Nick Storm; hip-hop/DJ performances by Cooli-Hi, Raena Mann, Halo, Chaz & Eddie Vanz, Jason & DJ Slice, Phantoms, Twon J, The Commexo Kid, Lamar Costello, Ankh Trinity @ The People’s Art House Of Richmond (1118 N. 34th St, Church Hill) 5 PM (acoustic show), 7:30 PM (electric band show), 11 PM (hip hop show).

Saturday, 7/7 Against Grace @ The Republic 9 PM

Saturday, 7/7 Pinkerton Thugs (pictured above), The Scarred, The Haverchucks, Amateur Thieves, Ratmeat @ The Camel 9 PM

Saturday, 7/7 God Forbid (pictured above), All Against One, Unrestricted, Xstrophy, Tetryl, The Devils Roundhouse, DarkShores @ Kingdom 5 PM

Saturday, 7/7 Susan Greenbaum Band @ Ashland Coffee And Tea 8 PM

Sunday, 7/8 NO BS! Brass Band Welcome Home Brunch Party @ The Camel 3 PM (Early)

Sunday, 7/8 Ear Theory, James Wallace and the Naked Light (pictured above), Raintree, The Offset @ The Camel 9 PM

Sunday, 7/8 The Clear Blue Sky @ Tobacco Company 9:30 PM. Free.

Sunday, 7/8 Surroundings, Belle Gunness (pictured above), The American Dream, As We Set Fire, Meet Me At The Monument @ Kingdom 4 PM

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