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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/18-11/24

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 17, 2015

Topics: Asylum, Balliceaux, Bestial Evil, Brian Jones, Castle, Child Bite, Cross Eyed, Dirt Merchant, en su boca, Eric Hunter & The Distractions, ET Anderson, Harm's Way, Homewrecker, Horsehead, Humungus, Iron Reagan, JC Kuhl, Left Cross, Malice At The Palace, Manzara, Mob Assault, Negative Approach, Night Birds, Omega Boys, Red Death, Satellite Syndicate, Scott Clark 4tet, shows you must see, strange matter, The Bobby Thompson Project, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Milkstains, Twitching Tongues, Zack Mexico

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, November 21, 8 PM
Night Birds, Iron Reagan, Red Death, Cross Eyed @ En Su Boca – $8
One of the two hottest punk rock tickets in town this week (more about the other one later) is happening at En Su Boca Saturday night–and it’s guaranteed to be a total mess, in the best possible way.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 10/28-11/3

Marilyn Drew Necci | October 28, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Bummer's Eve, California Death, Cherry Pits, Clair Morgan, Creepoid, Crucial Rip, en su boca, Goo?, Government Issue, Human Infection, Mean Jeans, MyWay, Omega Boys, Park Sparrows, Plain Scrap, Psychotic Defilement, Return Of the Living Dead Bands, Sam Reed Syndicate, Scalpel, Sea Of Storms, shows you must see, strange matter, Sungazer, Tennison, The Ar-Kaics, The Sheepdogs, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Vomit Stain, War On Women

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, October 30, 5 PM
Return Of The Living Dead Bands VII, feat. local musicians performing their interpretations of Bad Religion, Candlemass, Death Piggy, Killing Joke, The Minutemen, L7, Nirvana @ Strange Matter – Free!
Halloween has come around once again, and what just might be the greatest Richmond Halloween tradition of all (other than our beloved Halloweek, of course) is back for a seventh year!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 8/5-8/11

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 5, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Amygdala, Antiphons, Backtrack, Bad Dinner, Bane, Bitter Rivals, Blind Authority, Caust, Cayetana, Chumped, Coma Regalia, Dumb Waiter, Ephraim Nuit, Eyelet, Facility, Forced Order, gallery 5, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Gillian Carter, Gull, Kaoru Nagisa, Lucy Dacus, Lyed, Mad Existence, Marcy, Methcharge, Mizery, Mothlight, New Turks, Newagehillbilly, Omega Boys, Ostraca, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, People's Temple Project, Petal, Prisoner, shows you must see, Slingshot Dakota, Smoke Break, Society Abuse, Solitary Confinement, strange matter, Stressors, Swamp Fest, Swan Of Tuonela, Swells, The Canal Club, The Cloth, The Heads Are Zeros, The Weak Days, Thin Lips, Truman, Turnstile, Ultra Flake, Under A Sky So Blue, Vivian K

FEATURE SHOW
Swamp Fest
Day 1: Saturday August 8, 5 PM
Swan Of Tuonela, Gillian Carter, Swells, Marcy, Kaoru Nagisa, Amygdala, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Mothlight, Facility, Truman, Vivian K, Ephraim Nuit @ Strange Matter – $10
Day 2: Sunday, August 9, 6 PM
Ostraca, The Heads Are Zeros, Coma Regalia, Caust, Lyed, Under A Sky So Blue, People’s Temple Project, Bad Dinner, Eyelet @ 25 Watt – $10
The variety and vitality of the RVA music scene never ceases to amaze me. The inaugural edition of Swamp Fest is just the latest example of these factors, highlighting a segment of the RVA hardcore scene that has mostly flown under the radar before now.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 4/8-4/14

Marilyn Drew Necci | April 8, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Adventures, Aspects Of War, Bare Thoughts, Ben FM, Blazing Eye, Carousel Kings, Church Bats, Dave Watkins, Divers, en su boca, Firing Squad, Friends From Earth, Gull, Hardywood, Keep, Kid Is Qual, Kommunion, Kromosom, Nelly Kate, Night Fever, Old Again, Omega Boys, Post Season, Skemata, Sports Bar, strange matter, Sunbox, The Lonely Teardrops, The Nervous Ticks, The Othermen, Unholy Thoughts, Whirr, Whoabear, Wildhoney, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, April 11, 5 PM
The Nervous Ticks (photo by Good Vendetta Photography), Nelly Kate, Dave Watkins, Gull @ Hardywood – Free!
The Nervous Ticks X Hardywood: an intriguing combination!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 12/31-1/6

Marilyn Drew Necci | December 31, 2014

Topics: A Film In Color, Born Crooked, gallery 5, Hoboknife, Jackass Flats, Krang, Lost Tribe, Lotus Grid, Matt Jones and the Bobs, Occultist, Omega Boys, Proxy, RHDP, Russell Lacy, Semper Eadem, shows you must see, shy low, Slugz, strange matter, Sunrise Detour, The Big Payback, The Camel, The Flavor Project, The Kairos Effect, Unholy Thoughts, Violent Outburst, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, January 2, 10 PM
Occultist, Krang, Hoboknife @ Wonderland – price at door
So here it is–the first really great RVA metal show of the new year! And it’s happening at Wonderland, a venue whose future was uncertain at times in 2014.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/3-9/9

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 3, 2014

Topics: 25 Watt, Ancient Browser, Bummer's Eve, Burn/Ward, Dumb Waiter, Empire, Everyone Dies In The End, Flashlights, Floodbeast, gallery 5, Grass Panther, Hail Blackbird, Hedersleben, IGM, Liquor Store, Lost Tribe, Mutual Benefit, New Turks, Nik Turner's Hawkwind, Omega Boys, PAWS, shows you must see, Slowing, Soft Cat, strange matter, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, Thieves Of Shiloh, Total Slacker, Witch Mountain, Zomes, Zorch

FEATURE SHOW
Tuesday, September 9, 9 PM
Total Slacker, PAWS, Flashlights @ Strange Matter – $8 in advance/$10 day of show
OK seriously–is 2014 the year of the alt-rock revival? I’m hearing more and more bands who sound less like 1997 Urbana and more like 1991 Boston every time I turn around… and I totally love it. Perhaps the alt-rock revival is more something I really want to happen than something that is happening, but you’d never know it if you check out the latest work from Brooklyn’s Total Slacker.
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