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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 1/28-2/3

Marilyn Drew Necci | January 28, 2015

Topics: Adia Victoria, Alison Self, Butcher Brown, Cult Of Youth, Daggering, Evan Dando, Everymen, gallery 5, Goat, Hive Mind, Holy Land, Long Arms, Lost Tribe, Lucy Dacus, Minimum Balance, Night Idea, Obsidian, Regulator, Ringworm, Sara Johnston, shows you must see, Solace Sovay, strange matter, Suburban Living, The Camel, The Foam, The Snowy Owls, Toxic Moxie, Unsacred, White Laces, World/Inferno Friendship Society

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, January 31, 9 PM
Evan Dando, Sara Johnston, Long Arms @ The Camel – $15 in advance/$18 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Some might say this recommendation is pure nostalgia–and listen, I get that. It’s been nearly a decade since Evan Dando has released any new original material, either as a solo artist or as the frontman for his longtime band The Lemonheads. But isn’t there something to be said for celebrating the classic, timeless work of a truly great American singer-songwriter?
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/26-12/3

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 26, 2014

Topics: Avers, Big No, Cary Street Cafe, Cloud Gavin, en su boca, Forced Order, Friend Roulette, Fury, gallery 5, Gemini Love, Gull, Hardywood, Holy Land, hot dolphin, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Manatree, Manzara, Mizery, Navi, Recluse Raccoon, Red States, Rich Homie Quan, shows you must see, Soul Search, strange matter, Stretch & The Elastics, The Camel, The Mirage Nightclub, The National, The Nervous Ticks, Thelma and The Sleaze, Tragic Fortune

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, November 29, 5 PM
Video Fan Riot, feat. Hot Dolphin (photo by Joey Wharton), Navi, Manzara, Gull, Big No @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – Free!
As a diehard music fan who was collecting records before there was even an internet, let alone filesharing, I suppose it’s not that big a surprise that I’m a huge fan of physical formats for media of all types. So of course, I am very thankful that Video Fan’s Kickstarter was successfully funded.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/10-9/16

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 10, 2014

Topics: 25 Watt, A Woman Is A Woman, Balliceaux, Battlemaster, Burn/Ward, Captive, Cherry Pits, Cloakroom, en su boca, Father Sunflower And The Golden Rays, Full Of Hell, Hard Stripes, Holy Land, hot dolphin, Jaye Jayle, Keep, Kommunion, Naked Baby, Nekrofilth, Noisem, Occultist, Punch, shows you must see, strange matter, Sungazer, The Camel, The Nervous Ticks, The Snowy Owls, Tungs, Unsacred, way shape or form, Whirr

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, September 13, 6 PM
Whirr, Cloakroom, The Snowy Owls, Keep @ Strange Matter – $10 in advance/$12 day of show (order tickets here: https://whirr.eventbrite.com/)
Hey kids, it’s time to play my favorite show column game: guess what way in which the 90s are back THIS week!
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Power Trip & Mammoth Grinder Brought Crossover Madness To Strange Matter

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 31, 2014

Topics: Holy Land, Iron Reagan, live music, Mammoth Grinder, music, Power Trip, Ramming Speed, RVA, show reviews, strange matter

In musical terms, “crossover” describes a meeting and intermingling of two different genres of music, usually a mixture of hardcore punk and thrash metal. This hybrid style has its origins in the mid-1980s, with bands like D.R.I. and Corrosion of Conformity making what are now considered classic albums in that vein.
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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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