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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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Negative Creep: Weekend Playlist By Pissing Contest

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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.

Our playlist this week comes to us from Richmond’s own Pissing Contest, whose harsh, angry, yet catchy as hell punk rock stylings distinguish themselves as both blatantly filthy and full of subtle intelligence — as all the best punk bands do. They released their second album, The Fountain (which references both urine and Marcel Duchamp on its cover — I dig it), earlier this year, and this Sunday night will find them releasing a cassette featuring both of their albums, cleverly entitled Pisscography, at Bandito’s.

Learn more about that free show, which also features fellow Richmonders Roy Batty and Weird Tears, here, and while you wait for Sunday night to roll around, spend your weekend punking out and circle-pitting around your backyard to this excellent mix from Pissing Contest. We’d say “to whet your appetite,” but with a name like Pissing Contest, it’s best to keep food-related metaphors far away from the conversation.

Get pissed, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Deceptacon: Weekend Playlist by Toxic Moxie

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

Our playlist this week is by Toxic Moxie, the dirty disco punks who’ve been beloved by Richmond for most of the past decade. Having created several EPs worth of outstanding tunes that won the heart of the city several times over, the band is currently prepping their debut LP for release — and the amazing tunes they have in store for us are sure to take their psychedelic dance-hall riot to a whole new level.

Until we are graced with that glorious release (sometime this summer is the rumor, but you didn’t hear that from us), the group has brought us an incredible mix that incorporates all of the genres that go into their own tunes, from booming dance beats to electro-indie bangers to classic rock jams and psychedelic whirlwinds, it’s all here to make your weekend amazing.

Get sweaty, 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

H.C. McEntire with Luray and Pistol Sister

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Broadberry Entertainment Group presents:

H.C. McEntire
Friday, February 1, 2019
at Richmond Music Hall
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:30pm
$12 | Tickets: https://ticketf.ly/2JeWH4c

www.hcmcentire.com
twitter.com/h.c.mcentire
instagram.com/hcmcentire_music
open.spotify.com/artist/223IvfSnge3qiGcDMHk2e4

“I came from people with machine grease on their hands. Dirt under their nails. The Bible by their bedsides. Cornmeal and buttermilk. People who need a porch to think, a red dirt row to get lost in, a revival to hunger for. But there are things that even a long, soft drawl can’t cover up. There are things you keep from even yourself.

In music, there are no rules. You make your own language. You can be both the Southern rock outlier and the twangy gospel conduit. You can be both the cherubic, honey-tongued innocent and the ardent punk. To get here—to find my lion heart—I had to become them all.”

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with support from:

Luray (Indie Folk)
www.luraymusic.com
twitter.com/luray_who
luray.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/user/Luraymusic

&

Pistol Sister
“Stringy, sweet Alt-Country” from RVA

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Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House
619 E. Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219

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