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RVA RADIO: BbopNRokstedy August 2010 Mixtape
Electro Richmond duo BBopNRoksteday have released their first mixtape. You might have caught their set at WEIRD a few weeks ago or at the surprise RVA issue release party. Give it a listen and keep a...
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Best Friend's Day 9 VIDEO WRAP UP PARTY
We bring you the best of the BFD 09 videos done by people in the community. Cue the music.
View ArticleMoon Duo: Coming September 14 To Strange Matter
A particularly psychedelicized lovers collaboration, Moon Duo pump out endless twilight biker-rock riffs, punctuated by interstellar space echo and a repetitive, romping White Light White Heat...
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DAILY RECORDS: Funeral Pyre, Laurie Anderson, Tourmaline
Funeral Pyre - Vultures At Dawn (Prosthetic) Funeral Pyre aren't breaking new ground--throat-shredding screams; fast, somewhat melodic double-picking mixed with gothic dirge riffs; and dark, warlike...
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RVA TV: Best Friends Day The Movie - Part I
If you only watch one RVA TV video in your life, make sure it is this one. It's Richmond's favorite day of the year and now favorite weekend. It's Best Friend's Day 9!! Our coverage takes you from the...
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SHOW REVIEW: Young Livers
Young Livers, Mouthbreather, All Teeth, Real Talk, and Sundials Tuesday, August 31 at Gallery 5 I want to talk about Young Livers. I originally wasn’t going to write about this show because my own band...
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DAILY RECORDS: Suzi Analogue, Weekends
Suzi Analogue - NNXTAPE (suzianalogue.bandcamp.com) Representing Philly’s hip hop underground, Klip Mode’s Suzi Analogue might as well change her name to Uzi Analogue, because on her latest release she...
View ArticleWRIR is in the running!! VOTE FOR THEM RIGHT NOW!
Back in January, I read over the news wire that PEPSI was not advertising in the Super Bowl this year. In reading deeper the reason given was to take the millions they would have spent for 30 seconds...
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Changing Channels with Ben Keys
In the As-Seen-on-TV product hall of fame, The Snuggie™ is second only to the Clapper and anything made by Ronco. One could argue that Billy Mays and his products also deserve a place in the pantheon...
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SHOW REVIEW: Deftones and Baroness
Deftones and Baroness September 1 at The National The National is a beautiful theater. Despite its being a relatively new venue here in Richmond, the elegant design of its luxury boxes and overhanging...
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Strange Matter Presents The First Annual Orientation Festival
Strange Matter's Eric Smith feels uncomfortable with the relative obscurity of today's Richmond punk scene. "It's tough to find out about shows these days," he says. "When I was growing up in Richmond...
View ArticleFILM REVIEW: Machete
The story behind the making of Machete, the new film from director Robert Rodriguez, is an unlikely saga leading to an uncommon movie. Fifteen years ago, while Rodriguez was making his breakout hit...
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DON’T SLEEP RICHMOND. Jeff Staple will be here on Monday.
The VCU Student Hip-Hop Organization (SHHO) and the VCU Brandcenter presents Jeff Staple at the VCU Brandcenter Sept. 13. at 12:15PM Founder of Staple Design and NYC retail spaces, Reed Space &...
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RVALUTION 22: The Boys Are Back!
The original crew that set RVALUTION ablaze a mere 6 months back is together tonight again for the first time in a long time. Expect everything to be taken up a notch with Doddie Braza, Micheal...
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DAILY RECORD: Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu – Annotated Modern Dance (Hearpen/Smog Veil Records) -- “Culture happens in secret, all art is secret. Ordinary people only see the ashes of art, or the failures, or frozen moments. Only...
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DAILY FIX: Netherfriends, RVA, 4/19/10
This truly excellent video of the Netherfriends performing at a house show in Richmond on April 19 of this year was shot and put together by Graham Ohmer. We've talked about the Netherfriends before,...
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9 Reasons To Love Comedy In Richmond
Richmond is known for a lot of things; heaps of Civil War history, the birthplace of a bunch of seminal bands, beards, a questionably clean river, Best Friends Day & Slaughterama, a love of PBR......
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DAILY RECORD: 36 Crazyfists
36 Crazyfists - Collisions And Castaways (Ferret Music) Having been a band for over fifteen years now, it seems that Alaskan metalcore foursome 36 Crazyfists have accepted their lot in life....
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ART WHINO : Beautiful Failures w/ Rich Salcido
Richard Salcido's work encompasses the process of exhibition development by creating an 'exhibition-worthy' piece under a daily time constraint from inception to completion, and embracing the...
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On RVA TV: GET UP. - Part 1 - RVA Graffiti Scene
In the fall of 2009, Virginia Commonwealth University students Emma Ellsworth, Kenyatta Watts and Nathan Madden walked into a documentary film class as strangers—not only to each other, but to the art...
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