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Commonwealth Of Notions Presents: Volume Four Pulled Out All The Stops at Gallery 5

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 30, 2014

Topics: Anousheh, Commonwealth of Notions, gallery 5, Heavy Midgets, live music, Mutwawa, Nick Woods, RVA, Tarrant, The Awesome Few, The Snowy Owls, WRIR

Shannon Cleary sure went all out for this year’s edition of WRIR & The Commonwealth of Notions Present: Volume Four. With five shows in four days, the lineup presented both an embarrassment of riches where local music is concerned and a somewhat daunting challenge in terms of scheduling.
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WRIR and Commonwealth of Notions Presents: Volume Four Promises Several Nights Of Excellent Local Music

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 8, 2014

Topics: Avers, Balliceaux, Commonwealth of Notions, gallery 5, Heavy Midgets, Ipanema, Lightfields, Microwaves, music, Nick Woods, RVA, shannon cleary, Steady Sounds, strange matter, The Snowy Owls, WRIR

The music festival of this RVA summer is happening next weekend! WRIR and Commonwealth Of Notions Presents: Volume Four features local bands old and new, and has expanded from its previous single-day length to a four-day weekend beginning Thursday, July 17 and lasting through Sunday, July 20.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 5/28-6/3

Marilyn Drew Necci | May 28, 2014

Topics: A Woman Is A Woman, Blooddrunk Trolls, burn ward, Diamond Hairbrush, Diarrhea Planet, Enabler, Eyehategod, Foxy Shazam, Gritter, Heavy Midgets, Horizontal Hold, hot dolphin, Kevin Gates, Larry And His Flask, Locusta, Lotus Grid, Maruta, Miramar, Morticia, Ocean Vs Daughter, Oxidants, Paradise Lounge, Rat Meat, Richmanian Ramblers, Ringworm, School Dance, shows you must see, Softspot, strange matter, Teen Death, The Cales, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Milkstains, WRIR, Yeni Nostalji

FEATURE SHOW
Tuesday, June 3, 7 PM
Eyehategod, Ringworm, Enabler, Locusta, Gritter @ Strange Matter – $20 (order tickets here: http://eyehategod.eventbrite.com/)
OK, yes, it’s another weeknight feature show already, but it’s necessary, because this coming Tuesday, a legend will walk among us.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 4/9-4/15

Marilyn Drew Necci | April 9, 2014

Topics: Bat, Bermuda Triangles, Bitchmouth, Camp Barefoot, Christi, Cove, Daggering, Daisyhead, Drew Daniels, Freaky J And The Bears, Good Throb, Heavy Midgets, Hex Machine, Meth Lab, Navi, Nest, People's Blues of Richmond, Pissed Jeans, Port Harbour, Post Teens, Priests, Rapturous Grief, Richmond reproductive freedom project, Salvacion, satan, Shitstorm, shows you must see, Skyward, Slugz, Steady Sounds, strange matter, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Hissy Fits, The Shack Band, Volture

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, April 11, 9 PM
Pissed Jeans, Hex Machine, Slugz, Daggering, DJ Marty Violence @ Strange Matter – $12 (order tickets here: https://pissedjeans.eventbrite.com/)
Pissed Jeans are the poster band for thirtysomething male angst.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 3/5-3/11

Marilyn Drew Necci | March 5, 2014

Topics: 45 AD, Atlantic Thrills, Bear Hands, Beelzefuzz, Christi, Cut The Architect's Hand, Dirty Fences, England In 1819, gallery 5, Heavy Midgets, Herro Sugar, Honeyblood, hot dolphin, Japanther, McCormack's Irish Pub, Miniature Tigers, Nancy, Pilgrim, Serpent Throne, shows you must see, Sinister Haze, Spandrel, Spirit Caravan, strange matter, Strike The Chord And Burn, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, Tiny Moving Parts, Total Slacker, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Whoa

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, March 7, 7 PM
Friday Mindgrind Freakfestivalis Part Two feat. Psalm Zero, Pyrrhon, Guerilla Toss (Photo by Mona Tracy Maruyama http://batcaveofdoom.com/), Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Navi, R-Complex @ Strange Matter – $8
One thing we have to give Strange Matter–they always keep it interesting.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 2/12-2/18

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 12, 2014

Topics: A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Acoustic Basement tour, Balliceaux, black girls, Black Joe Lewis, Bleeding Rainbow, Brian Marquis, Cary Street Cafe, Chelsea Temple, Front Porch Step, Full Of Hell, Heavy Midgets, Hit The Lights, Hoboknife, Humungus, Hunters, Into It Over It, Mekong Xpress, music, Mutilation Rites, People's Blues of Richmond, Pickwick, Positive No, RVA, shows you must see, strange matter, sundials, The Awesome Few, The Camel, the loose cannon, The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Transit

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, February 16, 7 PM
Into It. Over It., The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, A Great Big Pile Of Leaves, Sundials @ Strange Matter – $10 in advance/$12 at the door (order tickets here: https://intoit.eventbrite.com)
If you’re not yet on the “emo revival” bandwagon, this show should be enough to convince you.
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