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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 1/20-1/26

Marilyn Drew Necci | January 20, 2016

Topics: Atta Girl, basmati, Blackball, Burn/Ward, Butterfly Closure, Buzzard Dust, Dazeases, Fat Spirit, Father Sunflower, Frankie Martinez, Fried Egg, Funeral Chic, gallery 5, Gemtone, Guy Blakeslee, Hardywood, I.C.E., Joy, Julie Karr, Karacell, Lady God, MAASK, Magnus Lush, Nosebleed, Passing Phases, Pete Curry, shows you must see, Sidewalk Chalk, strange matter, Tennison, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, Ultra Flake, Venomspitter

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, January 22, 5 PM
Third Annual Bad Girl Revue, feat. Magnus Lush, Dazeases, Blackball, I.C.E., Ultra Flake, Nosebleed, Butterfly Closure, Atta Girl @ Strange Matter – $5
It’s a new year, so you know what that means–the Bad Girls Revue at Strange Matter has returned for its third annual throwdown! This event, an annual benefit for Girls Rock RVA featuring all female-fronted bands, gets more and more awesome every year, and this time they’ve really pulled out all the stops!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 12/9-12/15

Marilyn Drew Necci | December 9, 2015

Topics: Affasia, Antiphons, Atta Girl, Aye Nako, Bottomfeeder, Des Ark, Doll Baby, Doubtfire, Ex Hex, Fuck The Facts, gallery 5, Intronaut, Left Cross, Lucy Dacus, Mac McCaughan & The Non-Believers, Ostraca, Que Sera, Salvaticus, Scuzz, Set For Tomorrow, shows you must see, Silent Music Revival, Sleepwave, speedy ortiz, strange matter, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, The Canal Club, The Saddest Landscape, Two If By Sea, Vattnet Viskar, Venomspitter

FEATURE SHOW
Monday, December 14, 7 PM
Speedy Ortiz (Photo by Amazon Music), Aye Nako, Atta Girl @ The Camel – $12 (order tickets HERE)
Christmas is coming a little early for showgoers here in Richmond–and the bumper crop of touring bands coming to town over the next seven days make it seem like the holiday’s gonna last an entire week for clued-in locals!
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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: 3/25-3/31

Marilyn Drew Necci | March 25, 2015

Topics: Animal Planet, Antiphons, Bandito's, Beldam, Buck Biloxi & The Fucks, Comrades, en su boca, Everyone Dies In The End, gallery 5, Hardywood, HeadlessMantis, Heavy Lids, Hivelords, Houdan The Mystic, Mcrvwvs, Narcoleptics, Pianos Become The Teeth, Roz And The Rice Cakes, shows you must see, Sleepwalkers, Slowing, Stay In, strange matter, Suppression, The Ar-Kaics, the loose cannon, The Mad Doctors, The Mad Existence, The Trillions, Torche, Witch Mountain, Wrong

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, March 28, 8 PM
Torche, Wrong, Hivelords, Suppression @ Strange Matter – $12 (order tickets here: https://torchesmatter.eventbrite.com/)
Florida metalheads Torche have been a Richmond favorite for quite a while, and for good reason.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 2/18-2/24

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 18, 2015

Topics: Animal Planet, basmati, Bastard Sapling, Battlemaster, Big Fifty, Black Iris, Budd Dwyer, Chain And The Gang, Cherry Pits, Diamond Heist, gallery 5, Humungus, Infernal Stronghold, Led To the Grave, Mcrvwvs, MNMC, Mower, New Madrid, Night Idea, Nuclear Santa Claust, Romantic States, Russell Lacy, shows you must see, strange matter, The Ar-Kaics, The Camel, The Flavor Project, Unsacred, Vorator, Wonderland, Young Scum

FEATURE SHOW
Sunday, February 22, 9 PM
Humungus, Budd Dwyer, Led To the Grave, Vorator, Mower @ Strange Matter – $7
Metal. Strange Matter has been the place for it, for quite a while now, and I’m sure all the fans of this most glorious and triumphant musical genre know to check their upcoming show listings first when you want your live metal fix. But just in case this one got past you, I want to make sure to throw a spotlight on it.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week 2/4-2/10

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 4, 2015

Topics: $ilk Money, Big No, Black Kray, Black Veil Brides, Brainworms, Charles Diamond, Cloak/Dagger, Close Talker, Cyrax!, Divine Council, DJ Williams Projekt, Dressed For The Occasion, Generation92, Ghost Town, Goth Money, Hardywood, Hudson Falcons, Hunned Mill, Into It Over It, Karmah, Kevin Devine, Kons, Laura Stevenson, Lex, Lord Linco, LVL UP, Manatree, Memphis May Fire, Modern Things, Never Wrong, Pink Razors, shows you must see, Sidewalk Chalk, strange matter, sundials, The Ar-Kaics, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Invasion, The National, The Sidekicks, utmost, Wonderland

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, February 7, 8 PM
A Benefit for Jay Moritz feat. Pink Razors, Cloak/Dagger, Brainworms, Sundials, Modern Things @ Strange Matter – $10 (order tickets here: https://savejay.eventbrite.com)
RVA punk rockers, get stoked! This show is for a good cause (more about that later), but even if it weren’t, it’d be a momentous occasion.
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