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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 10/21-10/27

Marilyn Drew Necci | October 21, 2015

Topics: Atta Girl, Babes In Toyland, Cheap Fest, Close Talker, Crucial Rip, Cult Leader, Elvis Depressedly, High Priest, Indian Handcrafts, Insatanity, Inter Arma, Irata, Kitten Forever, Kylesa, MewithoutYou, Nervo Chaos, Pianos Become The Teeth, Restorations, shows you must see, strange matter, sundials, The Broadberry, The Front Bottoms, The Menzingers, The National, The Smith Street Band, Venomspitter, Vomit Stain, Woah Nows

FEATURE SHOW
Cheap Fest VI @ Strange Matter
Day One: Friday, October 23, 2 PM-Midnight – $5-15 (sliding scale)
Daggering, Stone Garden Jam Temple, Mutwawa, Broadcastatic, Scant, Creeping, Stress Orphan, Burak, Neurology, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Zack Kouns, Bernard Herman, Nate Schieble/Ian McColm, Astrology Diet, Cornelius Van Strafin III, Jim Capps, Metamorphic Blood vs. Kaontrol Kontraos, Radio Shock, Nu Depth, Yoga Demon, Subklinik, Coteries, Eunich, JND, Floral Print, Deleted User, One Lifeless Eye, Lugweight, Outer Heaven, Blue Nine, Le Bron, Fake Object, 10-56, Negative Space, Lacanthrope, Skirts, Alpha Decay, Seven Hundred Club
Day Two: Saturday, October 22, 2 PM-Midnight – $5-15 (sliding scale)
Laundryroom Squelchers, Tinnitustimulus, Unguent, Narwhalz (of sound), Radiator Greys, Shredded Nerve, Newton, Yohimbe, Drums Like Machine Guns, Faster Detail, Pvre Matrix, Predation, Rosemary Arp, Trogpite, Boy Harsher, SB & C, Drippy Inputs, Extended Release, C10, Mall Prowler, Jokif Behr, Bachelorette, Embarker, Clang Quartet, Pony Moon, Quna, Suicide Magnets, Dave Public, Zoe Wordlaw, Muscle Academy, Lead Pipe, Cloning, Bath Assaults, Xambuca, Bushmeat, New Loft, Flesh Control, Schwarzkali Effect
There are times I worry I won’t have enough to say about one of the shows in my column. Suffice it to say, this is not one of those times. If anything, Cheap Fest VI offers more action than I could possibly cover in a few measly paragraphs.
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Radio Rubber Room Presents: Keith Yetter, Stay In, Close Talker and Sea of Storms

Amy David | September 28, 2015

Topics: Close Talker, Keith Yetter and the Old Yellers, radio rubber room, Sea Of Storms, Stay In, The Camel

Wednesday Sept.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/2-9/8

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 2, 2015

Topics: A Collegiate Affair, AJ Davila Y Terror Amor, Bandito's, Bat, Battlemaster, Broadside, California Death, Christian Mistress, Close Talker, Conditions, Corpse Light, Dirt Merchant, High Spirits, Imaginary Sons, Keith Yetter, Killing Daylights, Led To the Grave, Left Cross, Mutwawa, Night Magic, Psychic TV, Savage Master, Sea Of Storms, shows you must see, Stay In, strange matter, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Medusa, The Tall Boys, The You Go Girls, Those Manic Seas, Underdog Champs, When Cities Sleep, Wonderland, Young Scum

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, September 6, 8 PM
Psychic TV, Corpse Light, Mutwawa @ Strange Matter – $20 in advance/$22 day of show (order tickets here: https://psychictv.eventbrite.com/)
This Sunday, a legend walks among us.
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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 This Week 2/4-2/10

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 4, 2015

Topics: $ilk Money, Big No, Black Kray, Black Veil Brides, Brainworms, Charles Diamond, Cloak/Dagger, Close Talker, Cyrax!, Divine Council, DJ Williams Projekt, Dressed For The Occasion, Generation92, Ghost Town, Goth Money, Hardywood, Hudson Falcons, Hunned Mill, Into It Over It, Karmah, Kevin Devine, Kons, Laura Stevenson, Lex, Lord Linco, LVL UP, Manatree, Memphis May Fire, Modern Things, Never Wrong, Pink Razors, shows you must see, Sidewalk Chalk, strange matter, sundials, The Ar-Kaics, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Invasion, The National, The Sidekicks, utmost, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, February 7, 8 PM
A Benefit for Jay Moritz feat. Pink Razors, Cloak/Dagger, Brainworms, Sundials, Modern Things @ Strange Matter – $10 (order tickets here: https://savejay.eventbrite.com)
RVA punk rockers, get stoked! This show is for a good cause (more about that later), but even if it weren’t, it’d be a momentous occasion.
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