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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/19-11/25

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 19, 2014

Topics: Bandolero, black liquid, Brutal Youth, Chris Haskins, Chumped, Close Talker, Cruel Hand, Daycare Swindlers, Dinner And A Suit, emilio's, Face Melt Friday, Goad Gatsby, Grass Panther, Hardywood, Have Mercy, Health Crash, Hold Tight!, Humungus, Imaginary Sons, Iron Chic, Iron Reagan, Jae Dilly, Jake Mayday, Landmines, Lightfields, Mischief Brew, music, Neck Deep, New Turks, Night Birds, Night Demon, Pears, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Prayer Group, Raven, Real Friends, Reppa Ton, RVA, Say-10 Records, shows you must see, Sleaze, Slim Kartel, Slingshot Dakota, Smoke Or Fire, Spraynard, Stay Sweet, strange matter, sundials, Supa Soop, Swerve 36, Teen Death, The Broadberry, The Invasion, The New Juice Crew, The Weak Days, The Young Sinclairs, This Is Your Life, tim barry, Timeshares, Tru Nyce, Twisted Tower Dire, Walter Jr, Wizard Rifle, Yung Yankee

FEATURE SHOW
Stay Sweet Presents: A Say-10 Records Anniversary Party
Friday, November 21, 4 PM
Tim Barry, Smoke Or Fire, Erik Peterson (Mischief Brew), Chumped, Landmines, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Timeshares, The Scandals, Divided Heaven, Kyle Oppold (Arliss Nancy), Jake Mayday, Concord America
Saturday, November 22, 11 AM
Iron Chic, Night Birds, Spraynard, Iron Reagan, Pears, Brutal Youth, Hold Tight, Daycare Swindlers, Teen Death, Entropy, Let It Go, Invaluable, This Is Your Life, Seagulls, Static Scene, Close Talker, Oklahoma Car Crash, Sundials, Trust Fall, Puddle Splasher
@ The Broadberry – $25 per day, $40/weekend pass (order tickets HERE)
Well, we didn’t get a Stay Sweet Fest this year, but with this two-day party happening, how can we really complain? Say-10 Records proprietor Adam Gecking has joined forces with Stay Sweet’s Alex Wilhelm to make Say-10’s 7th anniversary one to remember!
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Fest 13: Three days of hectic Halloween punk rock action

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 14, 2014

Topics: Candy Hearts, Caves, Circle Takes the Square, Close Talker, Descendents, Dikembe, Dowsing, Florida, Foxing, Gainesville, Halloween, Hold Tight!, Into It Over It, Kittyhawk, live music, Ma Jolie, music, Paint It Black, Post Teens, Rapturous Grief, RVIVR, Spraynard, Strike Anywhere, sundials, The Fest, The Hotelier, The Marked Men, The Menzingers, tim barry, Timeshares, Touche Amore, Typesetter, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Vacation, You Blew It!

The 2014 edition of the long-running punk music event known simply as Fest was held Oct 31, Nov 1st, and Nov 2nd at various venues, restaurants, bars, and public parks in Gainesville, Florida. Bands playing The Fest come from all over the globe–including quite a few from Richmond.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 10/29-11/4

Marilyn Drew Necci | October 29, 2014

Topics: 25 Watt, 6 Track Amateur, AJ Davila Y Terror Amor, Among The Rocks And Roots, Balliceaux, Bermuda Triangles, Cancers, Captured By Robots, Celtic Frost, Christi, Craptain Jack & The Shmees, Crow Bait, Destroyer Of Light, gallery 5, Hold Tight!, hot dolphin, Iron Chic, Meatbodies, Minutemen, Mozes and the Firstborn, Mutwawa, Pujol, Purling Hiss, Return Of the Living Dead Bands, Screaming Females, Sepultura, Serial Hawk, Sex Pistols, shows you must see, Silent Music Revival, Snack Truck, strange matter, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The Germs, The Stooges, Together PANGEA

FEATURE SHOW
Thursday, October 30, 5 PM
Iron Chic, Crow Bait, Cancers, Hold Tight @ Strange Matter – $10 (order tickets here: http://ironchicrva.eventbrite.com/)
Stay Sweet Records is technically a label, but they’ve only released a couple of things over the past few years. However, I doubt most RVA residents mind, since Stay Sweet’s real area of emphasis for a long time has been bringing the best pop-punk, emo, and melodic rock n’ roll bands in the world to Richmond for kickass live shows. And now they’re doing it again, bringing in Long Island’s Iron Chic for a Devil’s Night performance we’ll not soon forget.
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Hold Tight get pensive on new digital EP

Marilyn Drew Necci | October 24, 2014

Topics: Animal Style Records, Hold Tight!, I Always Leave But Never Say Goodbye, music, RVA

RVA melodic hardcore stalwarts Hold Tight have been showing up more often apart than together lately, what with two members switching instruments to play in Teen Death and the other two members manning their usual instruments in Cross Eyed. However, the quartet has been making some appearances on the same stage at the same time recently, and apparently they’ve come together in the studio as well, since a new 6-song EP has appeared this week on Animal Style Records.

RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/20-8/26

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 20, 2014

Topics: Arizal, Asylum, Bad Doctors, Balliceaux, Bandito's, black liquid, Broadcaster, Butcher Brown, Cage, Dave Smalley, Dead Gaze, DJ Harrison, Dr. Millionaire, Fairlane, gallery 5, Hard Girls, Heavy Midgets, Hold Tight!, Ivadell, Jellowstone, Kings, Late Bloomer, Maulskull, Missives, No BS! Brass Band, Ohbliv, Pace Cadets, PT Burnem, Sadartha, Sadistik, Sea Of Storms, shows you must see, Skemata, Sound Genesis, strange matter, Swordplay, The Broadberry, The Impalers, The Marcus Tenney Trio, Trio Of Justice, Very Americans, Victory Party, Worn In Red

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, August 22, 7 PM
Worn In Red (last Richmond show), Hold Tight, Late Bloomer, Sea Of Storms @ Gallery 5 – $5
Maybe I’m alone in this, but it seems to me Worn In Red never got their due. This RVA/C-ville quartet certainly has a solid fanbase around the Commonwealth, don’t get me wrong, but to me it seems like they should’ve been huge by now–especially with this whole “emo revival” thing going on.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 7/23-7/29

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 23, 2014

Topics: Bandito's, Crater, Cult Leader, Devil's Hand, Diamond Center, Hardywood, Hold Tight!, Holy Land, I Am The Avalanche, Iron Reagan, Lilac Daze, Mammoth Grinder, Mudd Helmut, Navi, New Turks, Nona, Oathbreaker, Power Trip, Prisoner, Ramming Speed, Rust Belt Lights, Salvaticus, shows you must see, SoMoS, strange matter, Supersuckers, Teen Death, The Blackout Shift, The Camel, The Welcome Hips, Unsacred, White Laces, Young And In The Way

FEATURE SHOW
Monday, July 28, 9 PM
Supersuckers, Mudd Helmut (Photo by Cindy Hicks), The Blackout Shift @ Bandito’s – Free!
It’s never a bad idea to show up for a show at Bandito’s.
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