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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 2/17-2/23

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 18, 2016

Topics: Antelope King, Big No, BLK LLC, Brief Lives, Chris Bernstorf, Circle Thrift, Clair Morgan, Comrades, Dr. Millionaire, Farma Wes, gallery 5, Gemtone, Geometers, Ghastly City Sleep, Glass Twin, Gull, Hardywood, Ishmael, landis wine, Manzara, Ms. Proper, Naked Pictures, People's Temple Project, Plain Scrap, Ruckzuck, Segga Spiccoli, shows you must see, Sleeper Wave, strange matter, Tennison, The Blue Sky Disaster, The Camel, The Cheats Movement, Tigerwine, Truman, Ultra Flake, Uncle Drunk, Van Hagar

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, February 19, 8 PM
People’s Temple Project, Sleeper Wave, Van Hagar, Truman @ Circle Thrift – $3-5 suggested donation
[NOTE: Late this week, for the second time in this column’s two-year, 100+ episode existence. What can I tell ya? Life gets in the way sometimes. Hope you didn’t sit home bored last night! Here’s the rest of the week, and we’ll be on time next Wednesday, I promise. –Drew]
Swamp Fest was not a fluke!
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 2/3-2/9

Marilyn Drew Necci | February 3, 2016

Topics: Afro-Zen All Stars, Bandito's, Black Water Gold, Brunswick, Christi, Community Center, Coteries, Cut The Architect's Hand, Dave Watkins, Doubtfire, Fool's Errand, gallery 5, Gritty City Records, Half Bascule, Head To Wall, HeadlessMantis, Killmama, Lucy Dacus, Magnus Lush, Manzara, Nic Perea, Night Idea, Park Sparrows, Sea Of Storms, Shadow Age, shows you must see, Silent Music Revival, Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor, Slowers, strange matter, swamp candy, The Camel, The Cheats Movement Podcast, The New Loft, The Renaissance, Toner War, Ultra Flake, Venomspitter, William Tyler, Wonderland, Zvi

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, February 5, 7 PM
WRIR Party For The Rest Of Us, feat. Brunswick, Manzara, Lucy Dacus, The Cheats Movement Podcast feat. Gritty City Records, Afro-Zen All Stars, Christi, Silent Music Revival feat. Night Idea, Coteries, Toner War, The New Loft, Half Bascule, stand-up comedy from Sarah Ahmed, Charles Ellis, Tom Hall, James Isaiah Munoz… and maybe even more than that! @ The Renaissance (107 W. Broad St) – $15 donation to WRIR
It’s the dead of winter and the prognostications going forward are so difficult that groundhogs are dying just to avoid figuring out whether the second half of winter is coming.
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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: 11/11-11/17

Marilyn Drew Necci | November 11, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Atlas Bloom, Balliceaux, Book Of Wyrms, California Death, Clair Morgan, Dazeases, DJ Dead God, gallery 5, Hugh Wells, King Buffalo, Manic & The Depressives, Melt, Moving Units, Night Idea, No BS! Brass Band, Nude Photos Of Celebrities, Plain Scrap, Priests, Reconciled World, Sacred Teachers, Shopping, shows you must see, shy low, strange matter, The Mold, The Nervous Ticks, Those Manic Seas, Toxic Moxie, Ultra Flake

FEATURE SHOW
Friday, November 13, 9 PM
Shy Low, Night Idea, Clair Morgan @ Strange Matter – $7
Let us once again celebrate the breadth and diversity of the RVA music scene.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 9/30-10/6

Marilyn Drew Necci | September 30, 2015

Topics: Agitate, Balliceaux, Big No, Black Iris, BOYTOY, Bully, burn ward, California Death, Dead Soft, Deterioration, gallery 5, Go!Zilla, Heat, Mannequin Pussy, Myrrias, New Turks, Nude Photos Of Celebrities, Rush Midnight, Ryder Bach, Sacred Teachers, shows you must see, Slump, strange matter, Sun Abduction, Superhumanoids, test, The Diamond Center, Ultra Flake, Wandcarver, White Laces

FEATURE SHOW
Saturday, October 3, 9 PM
The Diamond Center (LP Release), Big No, DJ Marty Violence @ Black Iris – $6-10 (sliding scale)
The Diamond Center may have moved to Austin, Texas back in the spring, but during the five or so years they lived here in RVA, they made a lot of fans.
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RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 8/19-8/25

Marilyn Drew Necci | August 19, 2015

Topics: 25 Watt, Amanda X, Among The Rocks And Roots, Art Contest, Bandito's, Bare Thoughts, Bearstorm, Beastman, Ben Shepherd, Big No, Canary Oh Canary, Captives, Colleen Green, Everyone Dies In The End, gallery 5, Gast, Gull, Inter Arma, Lobo Marino, Lucy Dacus, Manatree, Mikrowaves, North, Pox, Punani Huntah, Set And Setting, shows you must see, Sound Of Music, Spooky Cool, strange matter, sundials, The Atlas Moth, The Brass, The Broadberry, The Mad Extras, The Spirit Of The Beehive, Tone, Toxic Moxie, Tozcos, Tungs, Ultra Flake, Vattnet Viskar, Venus Guytrap, Victorious Trees, Wailin' Storms, White Laces, Wow Owls, Zula

FEATURE SHOW
WRIR & The Commonwealth Of Notions Presents: Volume Five
Day Two: Friday, August 21, 7 PM
Wow Owls, Big No, Everyone Dies In The End, Ultra Flake, The Mad Extras, Victorious Trees @ Strange Matter – $5
Day Three: Saturday, August 22, 7 PM
Toxic Moxie, Gull, Lobo Marino, Among The Rocks And Roots @ Sound Of Music – $5
Day Four: Sunday, August 23, 7 PM
Canary Oh Canary, White Laces, Mikrowaves, Ben Shepherd, Manatree @ The Broadberry – $5 in advance/$7 day of show (order tickets HERE)
That’s right: two weeks in a row with WRIR & The Commonwealth Of Notions. Overkill? Perish the thought!
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