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Show Review: Extragavanza 2015 at Smatter was dark and brutal with local acts shining though

Brad Kutner | November 10, 2015

Topics: Author & Punisher, Daggering, Extragavanza 2015, Mutwawa, RVA noise music, strange matter, Wolf Eyes

The surviving fetus of Fall Line Fest, AKA Extragavanza 2015 (we’re still not 100% on how that’s pronounced) happened last weekend and it showed RVA can handle a multi-venue show despite limited time
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/4-11/10

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 4, 2015

Topics: Akka, Antiphons, Atta Girl, Author & Punisher, Avers, Bandito's, Bare Thoughts, Bastard Sapling, Black Cobra, Capital Ale House, Charles Owens Trio, Close Talker, Colin Thibodeauxx, Daggering, Diiv, en su boca, Fever The Ghost, gallery 5, Imaginary Sons, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Kommunion, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, Magnus Lush, Manatree, Manzara, Meth Dad, Mutwawa, No Joy, Nosebleed, Shmu, shows you must see, Soda Bomb, strange matter, Sunflower Bean, Teen Death, The Broadberry, The Extravaganza, The Snowy Owls, The Trillions, The Winter Passing, Ugly, Wolf Eyes, Yob, Young Scum, Youth In Bloom

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, November 6, 5 PM – 2 AM
The Extragavanza! – $30 (order tickets HERE)
5 PM @ The Broadberry: DIIV, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, No Joy, Sunflower Bean, Avers, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, The Trillions, Manzara – $20
10 PM @ Strange Matter: Wolf Eyes, Author & Punisher, Mutwawa, Daggering – $12
10 PM @ En Su Boca: The Snowy Owls, Soda Bomb, Manatree – Free to ticketholders
There’s a brand new all-day music throwdown coming to RVA this weekend, and do you know how many times I had to look at the name before I realized it wasn’t called “the extravaganza” (nope, it’s not–look at it again)?
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/2-9/8

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 2, 2015

Topics: A Collegiate Affair, AJ Davila Y Terror Amor, Bandito's, Bat, Battlemaster, Broadside, California Death, Christian Mistress, Close Talker, Conditions, Corpse Light, Dirt Merchant, High Spirits, Imaginary Sons, Keith Yetter, Killing Daylights, Led To the Grave, Left Cross, Mutwawa, Night Magic, Psychic TV, Savage Master, Sea Of Storms, shows you must see, Stay In, strange matter, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Medusa, The Tall Boys, The You Go Girls, Those Manic Seas, Underdog Champs, When Cities Sleep, Wonderland, Young Scum

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, September 6, 8 PM
Psychic TV, Corpse Light, Mutwawa @ Strange Matter – $20 in advance/$22 day of show (order tickets here: https://psychictv.eventbrite.com/)
This Sunday, a legend walks among us.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 5/13-5/19

Marilyn Drew Necci | May 13, 2015

Topics: Among The Rocks And Roots, Bask, Beach Fossils, Beech Creeps, Big No, Black Iris, Book Of Wyrms, Borracho, Chain And The Gang, Child Bite, Christi, Clair Morgan, Druglord, en su boca, Field Mouse, Go & Tell, Hide, Hop Along, Lucy Dacus, Mutwawa, Nocere, Plain Scrap, Prayer Group, Rebuilder, shows you must see, Sleepwalkers, Sound Of Music, strange matter, Suneater, Teargas Rock, The Camel, The Record Collection

FEATURE SHOW
Thursday, May 14, 8 PM
Hop Along, Field Mouse, Go & Tell, Lucy Dacus @ The Camel – $10 (order tickets HERE)
This is exciting as hell. Hop Along are a band that I’ve been listening to constantly for the past two years, even though throughout that time, they only released one song: “Sister Cities.”
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 4/29-5/5

Marilyn Drew Necci | April 29, 2015

Topics: Against The Grain, All That Remains, Among The Rocks And Roots, Ava Luna, Bandito's, Broadcastatic, Brown Piss, Butcher Brown, Clair Morgan, Coteries, Crack Bytch, Creeping, Cristal, Daggering, Doubtfire, Dyrt, Fake Object, Flesh Control, Floodbeast, gallery 5, Go & Tell, Golden Retriever, IGM, In Flames, Kings, Lazer/Wulf, Lightfields, Manatree, Mutwawa, Navi, Periphery, Predation, Richard Ripper, RVA Noise Fest, Sam Reed, Satan's Satyrs, SB & C, Scant, Shirt/Pants, shows you must see, Sound Of Music, strange matter, Subklinik, The Cales, The Camel, The Meatmen, The National, Today Is the Day, US Bastards, Yoga Demon, Yohimbe

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, May 2, 3 PM
RVA Noise Fest IV, feat. Mutwawa, Coteries, Predation, SB & C, Scant + IGM, Flesh Control, Yohimbe, Subklinik, Cristal, Daggering, Richard Ripper, Golden Retriever, Broadcastatic, Brown Piss, Crack Bytch, Floodbeast, Dyrt, Fake Object, Creeping, Yoga Demon, ENE, Ting Ting Jahe, Cecelia, Toner War, The New Loft, Negative Space, Thieves Of Shiloh, 10-56, War Anus, SARS, Lacanthrope, Blue Nine, Le Bron, France Gall Entity, Alpha Decay, BSK @ Strange Matter – Free!
It’s time for your fourth annual dose of total noise overload, as this Saturday RVA Noise Fest IV takes over Strange Matter for nearly 12 hours.
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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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