An off-the-cuff pre-pandemic live recording from Big Heart Collective, a fun side project featuring some of Richmond's most talented rockers, has become a fundraiser and statement in support of Black lives. For the better part of 2020, musicians around the world have...
Nothing Left To Do But Smile
RVA Mag wanted to find out how local venues are surviving during the ongoing pandemic. In the third of a multi-part series of articles, we hear from Cary Street Cafe, where owner Robyn Chandler tries to stay positive even as they remain closed for going on five...
‘Carlisle Montgomery’ Is Very Richmond
Harry Kollatz Jr.'s coming-of-age novel about a six-and-a-half-foot tall nine-fingered guitar playing "freak" is a gloriously sprawling portrait of Richmond pre-gentrification. Style Weekly doesn't do their annual "You Are Very Richmond If…" issue anymore, and in a...
VA Shows You Must See This Week: March 11 – March 17
FEATURED SHOWFriday, March 13, 8 PMCaverns Of Pine, Unmaker, Big No, VV @ Gallery 5 - $10 (order tickets HERE)We're heading into St. Patrick's Day weekend and meanwhile coronavirus has got me out here writing new lyrics for "Paranoid Chant" by the Minutemen. So what...
VA Shows You Must See This Week: February 5 – February 11
FEATURED SHOWThursday, February 6, 8 PMCary Street Cafe's 25th Anniversary & Big Ol' Whoopty Doo feat. Whistler's Mother, Craigslist Jerry @ Cary Street Cafe - Free!This column is ostensibly about music, but if you want to get technical about it, it's really about...
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