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I Love It Loud: RVA Mag 50th Edition Weekend Playlist by Avail

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Every Friday night for the past 49 weeks, RVA Mag has brought you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

Now for week 50 of our ongoing Weekend Playlist feature, we bring you a very special new playlist from Avail. After all, tonight’s the night — the first of two hometown shows marking Avail’s first live performances in over a decade happens at The National, only a few short hours from now.

Did you get your tickets? Are you seeing them tomorrow? Or are you one of the many who got bit by a lack of ready cash at the proper time? Regardless of which of these categories you fall into, you’re sure to love this playlist cooked up special for RVA Magazine’s readers by Avail to celebrate their return.

From classic punk, hardcore, and metal tunes to unexpected detours taking us through the outskirts of country, hip hop, and acid rock, this playlist really has it all — and it goes on for 50 tracks, one for each of our 50 weeks providing you with Weekend Playlists.

Get stoked, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

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Sickle Moon Blues: Weekend Playlist By Infant Island

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, we’ve got one from Infant Island, the Fredericksburg-based screamo band who is working hard to carry the torch for Virginia screamo far beyond the Commonwealth. In fact, they just released a 4-way split EP with three bands from various points across North America — New Jersey’s Massa Nera, Illinois’s Frail Body, and Montreal’s dianacrawls. You can grab that EP in vinyl, cassette, or digital form at Infant Island’s Bandcamp.

The band will be headed out on tour in July, and will next play Richmond in August. But until they return to our fair city, they’ve brought us a jam-packed playlist that mixes the past, present, and future of screamo and metallic hardcore into a wide variety of sounds from outside their genre — ranging from quiet folk ballads to soaring post-rock anthems. It’s quite the journey, and is sure to spice up your weekend.

Let it rip, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Still Life: Weekend Playlist by Blessed

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops an absolutely amazing playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This one comes to us from Blessed, a British Columbia-based band who remind us with their music that, yes, Canada really is pretty far north. They’ll be bringing their gothic, metallic postpunk to The Camel on Tuesday, May 21, joining Richmond’s own Unmaker and Serqet in bringing some musical excitement to your midweek. Tickets are $10, and you can order your own right here.

But before you do that, dive into the playlist that Blessed has prepared so that you may give your weekend a truly excellent soundtrack. In addition to a few of their own tunes to get you psyched for Tuesday night, Blessed share a wide-ranging smorgasbord of outstanding sounds, taking you all the way from political punk to solemn indie to bouncy pop, and covering quite a few hotspots inbetween.

Take the trip, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Criminally Insane: Weekend Playlist by Beau Beau From Avail

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops one scorcher of a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, with all the excitement surrounding the return of Avail on July 19th at The National, we decided to dig back into our archives and bring you the excellent playlist Avail’s exuberant “cheerleader,” Beau Beau, put together for us late last year. It’s filled with maniacal punk, energetic hip hop, and raging metal to get your juices flowing before their reunion. We hope you managed to get tickets this morning, and we look forward to seeing you there for live coverage during the sold-out show.

Keep on that wall of death, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

*Cover photo by StereoGum

Love Like Blood: Weekend Playlist By Unmaker

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag drops a hell of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week’s installment is brought to us by Unmaker, the up-and-coming local goth-metal outfit. They just released their debut album, Firmament, back in October on Seeing Red Records, and if you dig this playlist, which is loaded with dark and menacing postpunk, goth, and metal ragers from the past several decades, you’ll certainly want to pick that album up. Until then, spend a snowy weekend haunting shadowy rooms to this ominous soundtrack.

Jam on, Virginia.

Photo by Joey Wharton

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond