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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/3-9/9

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 3, 2014

Topics: 25 Watt, Ancient Browser, Bummer's Eve, Burn/Ward, Dumb Waiter, Empire, Everyone Dies In The End, Flashlights, Floodbeast, gallery 5, Grass Panther, Hail Blackbird, Hedersleben, IGM, Liquor Store, Lost Tribe, Mutual Benefit, New Turks, Nik Turner's Hawkwind, Omega Boys, PAWS, shows you must see, Slowing, Soft Cat, strange matter, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, Thieves Of Shiloh, Total Slacker, Witch Mountain, Zomes, Zorch

FEATURE SHOW
Tuesday, September 9, 9 PM
Total Slacker, PAWS, Flashlights @ Strange Matter – $8 in advance/$10 day of show
OK seriously–is 2014 the year of the alt-rock revival? I’m hearing more and more bands who sound less like 1997 Urbana and more like 1991 Boston every time I turn around… and I totally love it. Perhaps the alt-rock revival is more something I really want to happen than something that is happening, but you’d never know it if you check out the latest work from Brooklyn’s Total Slacker.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 6/25-7/1

Marilyn Drew Necci | June 24, 2014

Topics: 45 AD, Bio Ritmo, Car Thief, Cherry Pits, Classical Revolution, Crater, Cut The Architect's Hand, D.I., Dreadlock Robot, Empire, Fister, Grass Panther, Gritter, Hoax Hunters, Industry Standard, Lightfields, Red Money, RPG, See-I, shows you must see, strange matter, The Ar-Kaics, The Broadberry, The Canal Club, The Paul Collins Beat, The REEF, Tilts, Ultrasphinx, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, June 28, 8 PM
The Paul Collins Beat, The Ar-Kaics, Cherry Pits @ Empire – $12
The arrival of Paul Collins in RVA this weekend is a very special occasion. A legend in the punk-adjacent world of power pop, Paul Collins started his career drumming with mid-70s trio The Nerves (of “Hangin’ On The Telephone” fame) before stepping out to front his very own combo, The Beat.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 5/7-5/13

Marilyn Drew Necci | May 7, 2014

Topics: Balliceaux, Blood Red Shoes, Blue Of Colors, Caroline Mauck, Caroline Spence, Colin Healy, Cult Leader, Domino Effect, Don Babylon, Downbeat Switch, Ghostwriter, Grass Panther, Gull, Hat Factory, Horsehead, Imaginary Sons, Jacqueline Stem, James Henderson, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Madrone, Mark Rose, Matt Pryor, Prisoner, Radkey, RVA Theatre, Seth Stainback, She's A Legend, shows you must see, strange matter, The Alberts, The Cales, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Diamond Center, The Trongone Band, The Working Effective, Ttotals, Unsacred, Venomspitter, Yautja

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, May 9, 8 PM
Rockn To Lockn Round II feat. Horsehead, Downbeat Switch, Seth Stainback & Rooster Foot, The Trongone Band @ RVA Theatre/The Hat Factory – $8 in advance/$10 at the door (order tickets HERE)
I don’t know about any of y’all, but a good old-fashioned Battle Of The Bands really brings back memories for me.
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Sounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon, March 2014

Marilyn Drew Necci | March 25, 2014

Topics: A Shrewdness Of Apes, Freaky J And The Bears, Grass Panther, Love Zombii, music, Noah O, Ohbliv, On the Horizon, RVA, Sounds Of RVA, Taylor Whitelow, Thai Sun, The Privies

Spring is popping but winter just won’t let go. This does not, however, prevent many musicians in RVA from birthing some prime musical offspring in this season of new beginnings.
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