Missives

RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 7/8-7/14

Marilyn Drew Necci | July 8, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, 36 Crazyfists, Brief Lives, Clever Girl, Crucial Rip, Dead Tenors, First Decree, Ghost Foot, Gutted Christ, Hemingway, hot dolphin, In This Moment, Intercourse, Lara Ruggles, Little Tybee, Lobo Marino, Lucy Dacus, Manzara, Minimum Balance, Missives, Monsoon, New Turks, Night Idea, Pathogenesis, Short Bus Pile-up, shows you must see, Simple Obsession, strange matter, Teen Death, The Alberts, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Defiled, The National, The Protomen, Toxic Moxie, Ultra Flake, Vomit Stain, Yoga Demon

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, July 11, 9 PM
Hot Dolphin, Toxic Moxie, Brief Lives, Manzara @ Strange Matter – $5
Free Slurpee Day is not generally a major holiday in my life. In fact, every summer when it comes around, I have to be reminded all over again that it’s even a thing.
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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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Nona Brightened Up My Week With Pop-Punk Awesomeness

Marilyn Drew Necci | March 21, 2014

Topics: Jonah Love, live music, Missives, Nona, RVA, Springtime, strange matter

Pennsylvania punk rockers Nona paid RVA a visit on Wednesday night, playing a matinee show at Strange Matter to a small but enthusiastic crowd.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 3/19-3/25

Marilyn Drew Necci | March 19, 2014

Topics: Antique Animals, Ashland Coffee & Tea, Ava Luna, Bitchmouth, Burn/Ward, Dumb Waiter, Earthling, gallery 5, Grower, Hardywood, Hi-Life Wedding, Houdan The Mystic, Jonah Love, Kids, Krill, Lobo Marino, Missives, Naked Baby, Navi, Nona, Obliteration, Page Of Concrete, Roz And The Rice Cakes, shows you must see, shy low, Silent Music Revival, Springtime, strange matter, Swamp Trees, The Stray Birds, Unsacred, Vorator

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, March 21, 5 PM
Lobo Marino, Antique Animals, Swamp Trees @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – FREE!
We’ve always regarded Lobo Marino as a local RVA band, but the truth is they spend most of their time on the road.
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