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Setting Fire To Our Insides For Fun Vol. 2: Valentine’s Day Weekend Playlist by Kanizzle

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week’s comes to us from Kanizzle, a veteran DJ best known as the project manager for Burning Man Information Radio (BMIR) in Black Rock City, Nevada, where he brings together over 70 other people to ensure that for around two weeks each year, Burning Man features its own full service FM radio station. Here in Richmond, though, you probably know him from his work with Richmond’s own Party Liberation Front, as well as his role as a co-founder of DC’s annual Burning Man holiday extravaganza, Naughty SnowBall.

His playlist this time around is focused on Valentine’s Day, the holiday we’re all in the midst of as you read this. He calls it “a lil something sexy for the lovers out there,” and it’s full of sweet jams and smooth funk to get down to… if you know what we mean.

Get sexy, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE. Artwork for the playlist was created by Beat Kitty, who just released her EP today on all platforms — check it out here.

This Beat Is Mine: Weekend Playlist by Body Talk

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops an absolutely amazing playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, we’ve got a flawlessly-curated selection of bangers from Body Talk, a local DJ collective made up of Mike Murphy, Tru Blu, Sean Lovelace, and DJ Mordecai. The members of Body Talk came together to get Richmond dance floors bumping with boogie-funk, disco, soul, go-go, and more sounds to keep your feet movin’ round.

You can catch up with Body Talk around town on a regular basis, and their next live appearance will be on Saturday, May 25th at Black Iris (322 W. Broad St). Music starts at 9:30, and if you arrive before 10:30, you get in free! After that it’s $5, so show up on time and dance all night! Body Talk DJ Sean Lovelace can also be heard weekly on WRIR, every Monday night from 11 PM to 1 AM, co-hosting The Heavily Cosmic Rotation along with DJ Heavy Styles.

Check all that out, but first, check out this massive collection of groovy tunes perfectly designed to get you prepared for a weekend of dance-floor transcendence. Funk, soul, R&B, disco… this playlist has got it all and then some.

Get it right, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Maria Chavez, “Sound Art: Performance and Conversation” at Modlin Center

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New York artist Maria Chavez will complete a ten-day artist residency at University of Richmond with this performance and Q&A that will also feature current students engaged in working with sound as an art form. The university will present this performance and conversation as well as an exhibition of her work in the Harnett Museum of Art, as part of a city-wide Sound Arts Festival running from March to August 2018.

Born in Lima, Peru, Chavez is an an abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ. Accidents, coincidence, and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations, and other works with her solo turntable performance practice. She is a research fellow of the Sound Practice Research Department, Goldsmith’s University in London. Her work and performances have been presented internationally, including at the Donald Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas; the Rhode Island School of Design; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Berklee College, Valencia, Spain.

Organized by University Museums and presented in partnership with Modlin Center for the Arts, UR Department of Art & Art History, and UR Department of Music. Sponsored in part by the Cultural Affairs Committee.

 

https://modlin.richmond.edu/

Movement with DJ Cortes and DJ Devolved at Little Saint

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New Wave, Post-Punk and Synthpop from DJ Cortes and DJ DEVOLVED (Vinyl Conflict) 👌👽
No cover, late night drink and snack specials till close or till we run out 👀

Movement is a Richmond-based all-vinyl DJ event focused on getting y’all to groove and move with us to an eclectic mix of tunes from the post-punk spectrum: new wave, goth rock, synthpop, jangle pop, no wave, punk-funk – you get the gist. In addition to spinning post-punk records, Movement works to bring local and out-of-town post-punk acts onto the stage.