"Let's go upstairs and make sure we can see the whole city while we chat." That's Tyler Williams, drummer for The Head And The Heart, speaking to fellow band member Jonathan Russell and myself in the lobby of The Quirk Hotel almost instinctively after the first music...
RVA #27: Students, residents march on Carytown for Richmond Grabs Back
Saturday, November 12th, four days after Donald J. Trump was elected, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Richmond for an event called “Richmond Grabs Back.” The event was part of a vaguely coordinated call to action alongside cities across the country. Unlike...
RVA #27: Between Black Metal & Punk: A Chat With Richmond trio Unsacred
Shortly after the release of 2014’s False Light, people’s ears finally started perking up to Unsacred’s sound. Perhaps it was an article in another popular publication that awoke some, maybe a savage live performance for others. The point is, one of the many gems of...
RVA #27: Building The Richmond Family: A Look At Tim Falen’s Bad Grrrl Records
Moving here three years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. Sitting on a pillow, doing my best to see over the wheel of a 20’ moving truck I barreled down from Boston to Syracuse to Richmond, I arrived sleep-deprived and sore from carrying boxes to break into the...
RVA #27: The Pop Surrealism Of Craola
From being shot at while writing graffiti in a concrete-lined river bed in Compton, California, to painting large-scale acrylic paintings found in the collections of famous musicians and actors, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art’s Turn the Page artist, Greg...
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