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Photos | Remi Wolf Packs Out Richmond With a Wild, Joyful Riot

Last weekend in Richmond, Remi Wolf took Brown’s Island and didn’t give it back. Her sound doesn’t fit in a box — pop, funk, soul, indie — all smashed together and dragged through the dirt. Openly fluid, proudly weird, she’s built a world where you don’t ask...

Photos | Swing, Sweat, Repeat: Caravan Palace at 9:30 Club

Caravan Palace hit 9:30 Club in DC a weeks ago and blew the place open to a packed house. No speeches, no slow build — just lights up, beats heavy, and bodies moving. The French group has made a name twisting swing and electronic into something reckless and alive, and...

Municipal Waste | 25 Years of No Mercy

When you think of Richmond’s heavy music scene, four names immediately come to mind: Lamb of God, GWAR, Avail, and Municipal Waste. These are the bands that have bled into the city’s veins and shaped the sound of this place over the last several decades. And this past...

St. Vincent’s Minimalist Show | An Evening of Pure Rock Magic at Ting Pavilion

On a cool Saturday night, St. Vincent took the stage at Charlottesville's Ting Pavilion, and with one swift motion, Annie Clark planted her flag on the modern rock 'n' roll frontier. Gone were the distractions of flashy props and overblown theatrics. What remained was...

Richmond Joins Nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ Protests Against Trump and DOGE

Thousands of Virginians took to the streets today for the 'Hands Off!' rally in Richmond, demonstrating against the sweeping agenda of President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Organized by a coalition of civil rights organizations,...

Styles P Shines, But So Do We

The room was charged the moment the doors opened. Richmond showed up ready—you could feel it in the air, like the bassline of a song you know by heart. And at the center of it all stood The Ghost himself: Styles P. Live at Ember Music Hall. A masterclass in presence,...

Gravel Soaked Whisky: Weedeater at Richmond Music Hall

Weedeater isn’t here to gently persuade you—they’re here to erase your existence from the inside out, a frontal assault of the auricular. Over two decades into their bourbon-fueled, smoke-shrouded descent through stoner-metal chaos, the North Carolina trio unleashed a...

The Richmond 34 Sat Down. What Are We Standing Up For?

Sixty-five years ago, a group of brave young Black Richmonders walked into a department store, sat down at a lunch counter, and refused to leave. That’s what they did. That’s what got them arrested. They just sat in a segregated space where their presence alone was...

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