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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: 7/16-7/22

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 16, 2014

Topics: Amp Death, Astraes Pestis, Bare Thoughts, Blooddrunk Trolls, Captain Maximum, Close Talker, Corporate Park, Coteries, David Dondero, Diamond Hairbrush, Dromez, Dwight Howard Johnson, en su boca, Fake Object, Filth, gallery 5, Great Apes, Hail Blackbird, Heavy Breathing, Horsehead, jonathan vassar, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Ma Jolie, Mermaids I Mean Whales, Mutant Supremacy, Public Health, Russell Lacy, RVA Noise, Scant, shows you must see, Skullshitter, strange matter, The Camel, The Sheiks, The Stargazer Lilies, Tobacco, Trepanation, Undergang, Zackey Force Funk

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, July 20, 7 PM
Jonathan Vassar, David Dondero, Russell Lacy, Mermaids. I Mean Whales. @ The Camel – $8
I don’t know how to categorize this show. Acoustic indie? Alt-folk? Americana? This is an important show for the local scene that it fits into, though, regardless of what word you use to describe that genre.
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