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My Friendsgiving Over You feat. Throwing Back Sunday on 11/30

John Reinhold | November 25, 2019

Topics: emo, live music, Thanksgiving, Things to do in Ricmond, things to do in RVA, Throwing back Sunday

The Broadberry Entertainment Group Presents!

Throwing Back Sunday @ The Broadberry
November 30, 2019
Doors 8p, show 9p
$10

My Friendsgiving Over You! featuring Throwing Back Sunday
A Holiday Pop-Punk Emo Rager with:
-Pie eating contest
-Egg Nog Chug Challenge
-Ugly sweater competition
-Friendsgiving Photo-booth
-Kissing Booth with mistletoe
-Tofurkey hand drawings

Be sure to be dressed to kill, best dressed will also win free tickets to another show!

Cash Prize & Golden Tickets

Dogfight Over The Trenches: Weekend Playlist by Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 22, 2019

Topics: best of 2019, emo, folk, hip hop, indie, metalcore, Playlist, rva magazine weekend playlist, Samarra, Weekend Playlist

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

This week, as the year draws to a close and the holidays come into view, we’re staying in-house to bring you a playlist from our editorial director and resident music nerd, Marilyn Drew Necci. Here’s what she has to say about it:

“Usually by the time Thanksgiving rolls around, music critics are starting to release their best-albums-of-the-year list. I’ve never believed in jumping the gun like that, so please don’t take this playlist as a final official word on the year in music from my perspective, or anything of the sort. However, I did think it would be fun to share a slew of rad tracks from all sorts of genres that have come out since the beginning of 2019. Enjoy this one as you contemplate your own best-of-2019 list (if you’re the sort of nerd that makes one), or simply as a helpful guide to some good music from this year that you might have missed. PS — the top photo is me with my old band, Samarra, back in 2016. I really do play bass, it isn’t just a clever song choice. ;)”

You heard the lady — give this one a spin and see what the year has had to offer, musically speaking. And be prepared for everything from hip hop and metal to shoegaze and quiet acoustic folk. If there’s one thing Drew’s never been accused of, it’s having a narrow range of musical tastes.

Add it up, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Top Photo by Jake Cunningham

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Honeyed Words: Weekend Playlist by Majjin Boo

RVA Staff | November 15, 2019

Topics: Cardinal, emo, indie, local bands, local music, Majjin Boo, math rock, music, Playlist, post-rock, rva magazine weekend playlist, Weekend Playlist

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

This week, we’re celebrating the release of Majjin Boo’s debut LP, Go Between, last month on Egghunt Records by reposting the playlist they made for us back in the spring. At the time, they were briefly using the name Cardinal, but they have returned to their original name for Go Between, a collection of excellent melodic math-rock tunes created over their first few years as a band. If you haven’t yet obtained a copy, we highly encourage you to do so — cassette and digital copies are available at Egghunt’s Bandcamp.

You can pair it with Majjin Boo’s playlist, which brings together a variety of inspiring indie, punk, math-rock, and emo sounds, and goes quite a ways beyond these narrow genre confines as well. The combination of this playlist with the seven tracks on Go Between will create the perfect start to your weekend.

Let it flow, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

One Wing: Weekend Playlist by Cardinal

RVA Staff | March 22, 2019

Topics: Cardinal, emo, indie, Majjin Boo, math rock, post-rock, rva magazine weekend playlist, Weekend Playlist

Every Friday evening, RVA Magazine brings you an excellent playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, we get some wonderful sounds put together for us by Cardinal, an up-and-coming Richmond quintet with a wonderful sound of their own. Growing out of short-lived local math-rock trio Majjin Boo, Cardinal combine the intricate guitar melodies of math-rock with a stronger melodic sense and a layered depth of sound.

Cardinal just released their latest single, “One Wing,” and will be playing at The Camel on Wednesday, April 3 with Massachusetts group And The Kids (more info here). Their weekend playlist gives us a preview of their live performance by featuring both of their recent singles, then goes on to present a smorgasbord of post-rock, indie, math-rock, and emo tunes that’ll fill your weekend with inspiration.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Children Of The New Dawn: Weekend Playlist By Kristeva

RVA Staff | March 15, 2019

Topics: emo, indie, Kristeva, post-rock, Weekend Playlist

Every Friday evening, RVA Magazine brings you another incredible playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, our playlist comes from Kristeva, an up-and-coming post-rock ensemble from Richmond, which mixes classical stringed instruments and occasional blackened screams into its epic instrumental grandeur. Kristeva will be headlining the Camel’s Shamrock The Block after party Saturday night, which has been cleverly titled “Post-Rock The Block.” They’ll also be releasing the cassette version of Goliad, their newest EP.

You can get a preview of that EP in the Weekend Playlist Kristeva has created for us, along with a fine selection of ambient, emo, post-rock, indie, and even hip hop and metal — plus you’ll hear tunes from the Richmond bands they’re sharing the bill with at The Camel tomorrow night. So what are you waiting for? (Post-) rock it out, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Review: Tigers Jaw Fails to Deliver at Virginia Beach’s Shaka’s

Samantha Rinchetti | February 27, 2018

Topics: emo, Loomers, rock, Shaka's, Tigers Jaw, Virginai beach music, Virginia Beach, Yowlers

Four days into Tigers Jaw’s Winter tour with Yowler and Looming, the group found themselves back in Virginia Beach playing at Shaka’s for what vocalist/guitarist Ben Walsh said was the first time in years for the Scranton, PA-based band.

Walking into Shaka’s for the first time in almost a year myself, I was instantly filled with nostalgia. Seeing all of my friends and being back in the venue that I had essentially grown up in brought a sense of excitement about the show and my surroundings. The nostalgia only intensified once it hit me that I was seeing a band I fell in love with when I was a sophomore in high school, in a venue that was essentially the birthplace of my love for the music I listen to on a daily basis.

Looming was an interesting band to watch. I had heard about them before, but I never dedicated any time to listen to them. Being a woman bass player myself, I am always interested in a semi-successful band that is fronted by a woman bass player. The second she started singing I was instantly reminded of Screaming Females, but that wasn’t a good thing — no one likes to hear a ripoff of their favorite band. Granted, Looming did have a few high points that had me moving around: however, I could not get over the idea that I was listening to an emo version of one of my favorite alternative bands.

Yowler was good enough. Again, I always appreciate a woman-fronted band. My friends and I were sitting at the tables in Shaka’s during their set, and the music sort of faded into the background, but not in a negative way. It was calming and interesting while also not being too in your face. Imagine being in a coffee shop and talking with friends — you appreciate the atmosphere without having to spend too much time digesting it.

The main feeling I had about both of the openers was disinterest and boredom. After going to every show I possibly could for the past two years, I hadn’t seen these exact bands before, but I had seen these bands before. I had heard the mostly unnecessary amount of distortion. I had heard the subdued vocal style and the lyrics that drone on and on about how they wish they weren’t sad. Watching these bands now makes me feel like I’m watching the Battle of the Bands scene in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, during the song, “I am so sad, so very very sad.”

I remember turning to my partner and saying, “I’m not sad enough to resonate with this anymore.”

Now don’t get me wrong, the music was still enjoyable. It was something I could appreciate, but I just could not get into it like I would have at one time. Unfortunately, that confusing feeling of disinterest and boredom only carried over to the headliner that I was originally so happy to see.

When Tigers Jaw started their set, I was slightly confused. I felt like something was missing. Then they played “The Sun,” off of their self-titled first album, and what was missing became blatantly obvious. Some of the lyrics I resonated with most in my early teens were only so impactful because of the slow, deep, and tired sounding vocals of Adam McIlwee, the original founder of the group who wrote the majority of their first releases.

McIlwee, now making music under the name Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, left the group after 2014’s Charmer. This left Walsh to pick up the pieces, and he just could not make that happen for me. With his high-pitched, whiny singing style replacing Adam’s missing vocals, it was hard to fully immerse myself in the set. The old material sounded like Tigers Jaw doing a cover of Tigers Jaw. I would find myself bouncing around and enjoying the music, but once I really listened to it, it just sounded wrong.

The weirdest thing of all was the fact that there were teenagers there who only knew the recent release. The latest Tigers Jaw album, Spin, was so mediocre it was almost painful. But not to the new fans. They were almost experiencing a whole different band than the one I had grown up loving. These kids were jumping, yelling, and having a good time — until they played anything that Adam was involved with.

During those earlier songs, the ones I felt the deepest connections with, it was a break for the new younger fans to take pictures, check their texts, do anything but hear songs they didn’t know.

This show was a big eye-opener for me. It helped me realize that the bands that I love are changing, and while to some people it’s amazing, to others (including me), it just isn’t. I didn’t hate the show, but I did walk away from it slightly disappointed. My first time seeing Tigers Jaw was supposed to be this special, nostalgic moment in my life, but it only served as an epiphany. I’m growing up, and some of the music I love will not come with me.  

For young people who are exploring different styles of music, I would recommend seeing the band as a perfect intro level band. For people who grew up loving their older stuff, though, you might as well save the $20.  

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