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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/4-11/10

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 4, 2015

Topics: Akka, Antiphons, Atta Girl, Author & Punisher, Avers, Bandito's, Bare Thoughts, Bastard Sapling, Black Cobra, Capital Ale House, Charles Owens Trio, Close Talker, Colin Thibodeauxx, Daggering, Diiv, en su boca, Fever The Ghost, gallery 5, Imaginary Sons, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Kommunion, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Magnus Lush, Manatree, Manzara, Meth Dad, Mutwawa, No Joy, Nosebleed, Shmu, shows you must see, Soda Bomb, strange matter, Sunflower Bean, Teen Death, The Broadberry, The Extravaganza, The Snowy Owls, The Trillions, The Winter Passing, Ugly, Wolf Eyes, Yob, Young Scum, Youth In Bloom

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, November 6, 5 PM – 2 AM
The Extragavanza! – $30 (order tickets HERE)
5 PM @ The Broadberry: DIIV, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, No Joy, Sunflower Bean, Avers, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, The Trillions, Manzara – $20
10 PM @ Strange Matter: Wolf Eyes, Author & Punisher, Mutwawa, Daggering – $12
10 PM @ En Su Boca: The Snowy Owls, Soda Bomb, Manatree – Free to ticketholders
There’s a brand new all-day music throwdown coming to RVA this weekend, and do you know how many times I had to look at the name before I realized it wasn’t called “the extravaganza” (nope, it’s not–look at it again)?
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 8/26-9/1

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 26, 2015

Topics: Bare Thoughts, Big Harp, Black Iris, Dalek, Earth, gallery 5, Hessian, Holy Suns, Lady God, Leisure Cruise, Louie Louie, Lucy Dacus, Lugweight, Manzara, Night Bitch, Night Magic, Ohbliv, Olivia Neutron-John, Petrichor, Publicist UK, Revolt Of The Apes, shows you must see, Sound Genesius, strange matter, Tennison, The Camel, The Good Life, Ttotals, White Kyle, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, August 28, 8 PM
The Good Life, Big Harp @ Strange Matter – $12 in advance/$14 day of show (order tickets here: https://goodliferva.eventbrite.com/)
Well hey, check it out–The Good Life is back!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/19-8/25

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 19, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Amanda X, Among The Rocks And Roots, Art Contest, Bandito's, Bare Thoughts, Bearstorm, Beastman, Ben Shepherd, Big No, Canary Oh Canary, Captives, Colleen Green, Everyone Dies In The End, gallery 5, Gast, Gull, Inter Arma, Lobo Marino, Lucy Dacus, Manatree, Mikrowaves, North, Pox, Punani Huntah, Set And Setting, shows you must see, Sound Of Music, Spooky Cool, strange matter, sundials, The Atlas Moth, The Brass, The Broadberry, The Mad Extras, The Spirit Of The Beehive, Tone, Toxic Moxie, Tozcos, Tungs, Ultra Flake, Vattnet Viskar, Venus Guytrap, Victorious Trees, Wailin' Storms, White Laces, Wow Owls, Zula

FEATURE SHOW
WRIR & The Commonwealth Of Notions Presents: Volume Five
Day Two: Friday, August 21, 7 PM
Wow Owls, Big No, Everyone Dies In The End, Ultra Flake, The Mad Extras, Victorious Trees @ Strange Matter – $5
Day Three: Saturday, August 22, 7 PM
Toxic Moxie, Gull, Lobo Marino, Among The Rocks And Roots @ Sound Of Music – $5
Day Four: Sunday, August 23, 7 PM
Canary Oh Canary, White Laces, Mikrowaves, Ben Shepherd, Manatree @ The Broadberry – $5 in advance/$7 day of show (order tickets HERE)
That’s right: two weeks in a row with WRIR & The Commonwealth Of Notions. Overkill? Perish the thought!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 6/24-6/30

Marilyn Drew Necci | June 24, 2015

Topics: Bare Thoughts, Beldam, Big Zit, Blood Pressure, Broadside, Caves, Chain Rank, Close Talker, Concealed Blade, Creepoid, Dikembe, Ecstatic Vision, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Firing Squad, Foehammer, from fragile seeds, gallery 5, Gouge Away, Inquiry, Lady God, Never Wrong, Old Again, Pretty Pretty, Reps, shows you must see, Smoke Break, strange matter, Such Gold, sundials, Teen Death, Tenement, The Canal Club, the concussion theory, Thera Roya, Underdog Champs, Vacation, Wonderland, Worriers, Yankee Roses

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, June 28, 5 PM
Broadside Hometown Album Release Show, feat. Broadside, Such Gold, Old Again, Inquiry, Underdog Champs, The Concussion Theory @ The Canal Club – $5
This weekend at the Canal Club, it’s time to celebrate a local band made good!
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RVA Shows You Must See 4/22-4/28

Marilyn Drew Necci | April 22, 2015

Topics: Among The Rocks And Roots, Bare Thoughts, Bummer's Eve, Chumped, Consider The Source, Cross Eyed, Cut The Architect's Hand, Dalton Dash, Devon Hammer, Druglord, Fat Spirit, Gamelan Raga Kusuma, Generation Of Vipers, Hardywood, Imaginary Sons, Jeff Rosenstock, Kryptcest, Lady God, LRKR, McCormack's, Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns, Mister F, Nicky C and the RSB, Organ Trail, Richard Ripper, Roper & Furley, RPG, shows you must see, Sinister Haze, Slow News Day In The Vampire World, Slowing, strange matter, The Answer, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Vomiting Dinosaurs, US Christmas

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, April 25, 5 PM
RPG IPA Release, feat. ~~RPG~~ Druglord, Roper & Furley, Lady God, Bummer’s Eve @ Hardywood – Free!
Turning metal bands into beer has become its own little cottage industry in the craft brewing world, and you can certainly see the reasoning. Nothing goes with raging heavy music and triumphant headbanging action like that golden amber liquid–or, you know, so they tell me.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 4/8-4/14

Marilyn Drew Necci | April 8, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Adventures, Aspects Of War, Bare Thoughts, Ben FM, Blazing Eye, Carousel Kings, Church Bats, Dave Watkins, Divers, en su boca, Firing Squad, Friends From Earth, Gull, Hardywood, Keep, Kid Is Qual, Kommunion, Kromosom, Nelly Kate, Night Fever, Old Again, Omega Boys, Post Season, Skemata, Sports Bar, strange matter, Sunbox, The Lonely Teardrops, The Nervous Ticks, The Othermen, Unholy Thoughts, Whirr, Whoabear, Wildhoney, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, April 11, 5 PM
The Nervous Ticks (photo by Good Vendetta Photography), Nelly Kate, Dave Watkins, Gull @ Hardywood – Free!
The Nervous Ticks X Hardywood: an intriguing combination!
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