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by Griffin Smalley | AMERICANA & BLUES, DOWNTOWN RVA, ELECTRONIC & EXPERIMENTAL, METAL, PUNK, THRASH & HARDCORE, MUSIC, NIGHTLIFE, QUEER RVA, ROCK & INDIE

It’s a great week to be a Richmonder. I tried to cover a little bit of everything here—something to calm the storm, something to shake it up more—and as always, if you’ve got something, let me know. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply want someone to talk music?...

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VA Shows You Must See This Week: November 14 – November 20

FEATURED SHOW Thursday, November 15, 9 PM Forward, Headsplitters, Loud Night, Cement Shoes @ Flora - $10 Burning Spirits. To most, perhaps, it's a vaguely paranormal-sounding phrase with no real significance beyond that. But for the diehard punks and hardcore kids in...

RVA ON TAP: Home Brew Competition, Holiday Beers, & Funk Fest

What’s happening, craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s RVA On Tap, RVA Magazine’s weekly column for all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals, and all the booze news your hearts desire. If you missed the last column, you can check that out...

RVA Mag Comics X-Change: Issue #6

Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to issue #6 of RVA Mag’s Comics X-Change, piping hot off the press and now with a holofoil variant just for you. A lot is going on the next couple weeks for us in comics-land, and in the beautiful not-so-underground that is...

Best Of RVA Missed Connections: November 7 – November 13

Apparently a lot of hearts were set aflame this week, and more than a little of it happened at shows, from hot pit action at Good Riddance in Norfolk to some serious closeness in the pit at GWAR. Whether or not you rocked out with some cuties this past week, though,...

VA Pro-Gun Organization Helps Shoot Down Gun Safety Bill

Richmond has seen an uptick in gun thefts over the last several years, and often, these guns end up in the wrong hands. In the Virginia House and Senate, legislators recently struck down a bill that would require gun owners to report missing weapons within 24...

The Redemption of Christian Picciolini: How a Former Skinhead Became a Leader in the Fight To End Hate

*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #34, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. He stood in an alley on the south side of Chicago, smoking a joint. His parents didn’t know where he was, or if they did, they were most likely too busy working to be...

Criminally Insane: Weekend Playlist by Beau Beau from Avail

Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by Virginia's most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. While you circle-pit through your weekend trepidations, let Richmond's punk pioneer, Beau Beau from Avail, guide your nocturnal...