RVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 8/3-8/5

by | Aug 3, 2012 | WORLD MUSIC

Friday, August 3: Electronica Weekly presents Gent & Jawns, M.A.S.S Fx, MaMMaLs, Beat Down The Kid @ Kingdom 9 PM


Friday, August 3: Electronica Weekly presents Gent & Jawns, M.A.S.S Fx, MaMMaLs, Beat Down The Kid @ Kingdom 9 PM

Friday, August 3: 12 Stones, Blameshift, Digital Summer (pictured above), Throwing Gravity, Faultline, Aparallax, If It Takes Forever @ Cullen’s Cove 7 PM

Friday, August 3: Night Flight With Mikemetic @ Balliceaux 10 PM

Friday, August 3:The ILLBillys @ Cafe Diem 9:30 PM

Friday, August 3: Peter J. Woods (pictured above), Lucky Bone, Heavy Breathing, Debris Amour, JM//Wave, Death Register, Thieves Of Shiloh @ Strange Matter 6 PM (Early)

Friday, August 3: Vinyl Conflict Records presents Joint D≠ (pictured above), Fire Bison, Haverchucks @ Strange Matter 10 PM (Late)

Friday, August 3: BoomBox @ The National 8 PM

Friday, August 3: Lilt @ Ashland Coffee and Tea 8 PM

Friday, August 3: Black Girls (pictured above), Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Goldrush @ The Camel 9 PM

Friday, August 3: Weekends In Latveria Mixtape Release Party featuring Just Plain Sounds, Legion Of Doom @ Club Mirage (4th & E. Franklin St.) 10 PM

Friday, August 3: The Trongone Band @ Cary St. Cafe 10 PM

Friday, August 3: 90s TV Show Costume Party with Murphy’s Kids @ The Republic 10 PM

Friday, August 3: Exposed Music Festival: Crossgate, Toxsick, The Lost Vagabonds, Swell Daze, Eli & the Kampking, Every Other Word, Law of Average, Parlour Shakedown, Red States, Brighter Fires, If it Takes Forever and Beyond the Soul @ Canal Club $10 6 PM

Saturday, August 4: Exposed Music Festival: For Valor & Glory, The Seventh Aura, Strength to Stand, Silence is a Burden, Levi’ GenePool, Britney Jean, Bullets from Oz, Eyes of Eli, Archers Gypsy Healers, Bravo Company, All The Kings, RiversRevenge and Tom Eats Jerry.@ Canal Club $10 6 PM

Saturday, August 4: Audio Mass Transit presents Afro Beta, “Queens Edition” @ The Nile – Free/21+ 11 PM

Saturday, August 4: Antietam 1862, Tombstalker (pictured above), Triac, Organ Donor @ Strange Matter 9 PM

Saturday, August 4: DJ Williams Projekt @ Tobacco Company 9:30 PM

Saturday, August 4: Paul Ivey and the Rubes @ Cellar Door 9 PM

Saturday, August 4: Cannibal Corpse (pictured above), Between The Buried & Me, The Faceless, Periphery, Veil Of Maya, Job For A Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed, Cerebral Bore, The Contortionist, Enfold Darkness.@ The National 1 PM

Saturday, August 4: Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash with Wake Of The Flood @ Cary St Cafe 10 PM

Saturday, August 4: Rattlemouth @ Crossroads Coffee And Ice Cream (Forest Hill Ave location) 8 PM

Saturday, August 4: Outbreak City Fest Part III featuring Under City Skylines (pictured above), Between the Heart and Home, Audio Insight, Embers From the Altar, I Am the Rapture @ The Camel 12 PM (EARLY)

Saturday, August 4: The Itchy Hearts (pictured above), Milkstains, Wolf//Goat, Night Idea @ The Camel 9 PM (LATE)

Saturday, August 4: Anonymous @ Fishbowl Bistro 9:30 PM

Saturday, August 4: No Richmond: Postpunk Records Played For Dancing @ Balliceaux 10 PM

Saturday, August 4: Hardywood Hop Harvest Fest featuring No BS! Brass Band @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery 3:30 PM

Sunday, August 5: Jon Ramsey, Nathan Hess (pictured above), Floodwall @ Commercial Taphouse 9 PM

Sunday, August 5 Sunrise Detour (pictured above), Andy Mason, Mitchel Bamberger @ The Camel 9 PM

Sunday, August 5: Beex (pictured above), Lonely Teardrops @ Banditos – Free/21+ 9 PM

Sunday, August 5: Carte Blanche Presents: Back To The Hippodrome, featuring No BS! Brass Band, Black Girls, Tungs (pictured above), DJ Ghozt, DJ Fili @ The Hippodrome 7 PM

Sunday, August 5: With The Punches, Forever Came Calling (pictured above), State Champs, Battleghost, In Courage, Just Another Scene @ Kingdom $10 5 PM

Sunday, August 5:Wild Nothing (pictured above), White Laces, Super Vacations @ Strange Matter – $15/All Ages 8 PM

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