Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an absolutely essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions. This time around, we've got one from Infant Island, the Fredericksburg-based screamo band who is working hard...
The Fredericksburg screamo band has built quite a buzz recently, but for Infant Island, music is still mainly a way to connect with like-minded souls. “Friends are fans. Fans are friends,” said Infant Island’s drummer, Austin O’Rourke. “Fans are friends, not food,”...
The mid-1990s was an adventurous time for underground music, especially for punk, hardcore, and [scr]e[a]mo bands. Building off the vast musical foundations laid by the pioneers of the genre in the late 70s and throughout the 80s, the 90s emerged as a time of...
Ostraca aren't as well known around Richmond as they should be, but that doesn't mean they aren't a force to be reckoned with. Ostraca aren't as well known around Richmond as they should be, but that doesn't mean they aren't a force to be reckoned with. The loud,...