When The Mowgli's first came on the scene, they seemed to be a culmination of everything that the music world had become enamored with over the past five years. Pop music that's still rock with wild percussion, group chants, great harmonies, and cavity-inducing...
RVA Mag Celebrates 10 Years, Here’s to 10 More!
It’s been 10 years. If RVA Mag was a child, he or she would be getting in trouble for scribbling doodles on wooden desks in the back of class. It’s been 10 years. If RVA Mag was a child, he or she would be getting in trouble for scribbling doodles on wooden desks in...
The Mad Extras get silly with doll arms in their new video; Best New Artist EP out 4/21
The Mad Extras are a new RVA band who've been picking up a buzz around town with some excellent live performances around town, and now this fun-loving quartet is about to release their debut EP, cheekily titled Best New Artist. They just sent us the brand new video...
Dale Brumfield sheds light on VA independent publishing history with Independent Press In DC & Virginia
Believe it or not, RVA Mag was not the beginning. Much as we'd love to lay claim to having started it all, the history of independent press in Virginia goes back many years longer than the single decade we've been in operation--and Richmond-based author Dale Brumfield...
RVA up-and-comers Venomspitter overload internet with brutal new EP
While Venomspitter have kept a relatively low profile around the RVA scene in the year or so since they got started, this band has clearly been generating a buzz online. We know this because, when they uploaded their new self-titled EP onto Bandcamp last week, they...
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