DAILY RECORD: The Trillions
The Trillions - Tritones (Worthless Junk) The Trillions are an RVA-based power pop band who formed a couple years ago and have been making a big impression on the Richmond music scene during their time...
View ArticleOne Way Richmond's Show Picks 4/12-4/15
4/12 Trevor Dunn & Endangered Blood (pictured above), Scott Clark 4tet @ The Camel 8pm. 4/12 Fort Wilson Riot (pictured above), Good Weird Collective @ The Nile 10pm. 4/12 An Mekong's Engagement...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Xenia Rubinos, "Pan Y Cafe"
Here's something crazy and awesome that kind of came out of nowhere for me. Xenia Rubinos is a Brooklyn-based musician, the child of Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants, who just released her debut...
View ArticleSounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon #4
One of the best things about RVA, in addition to having so many different bands, is that there are so many music blogs and outlets covering the scene, and that they have such different approaches and...
View ArticleRVA Street Art Festival Kicked Off Today!
The RVA Street Art Festival artists are working down at the abandoned Alcoa Plant on the flood wall starting today. Mark Jenkins painted a giant target and is building the human darts to go with it....
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Kid Is Qual, "Conflict Girl"
In the world of Kid is Qual, expectations are always thrown out the window. That’s what makes them one of the more formidable outfits to stake a claim at being one of Richmond’s most inventive musical...
View ArticleSOUL CORNER #4, with DJ Pari
Richmond based DJ Pari is the host of the monthly Soulpower dance party at Balliceaux and co-host of Midnight Soulstice on WRIR 97.3 FM (every Friday from 11pm until 1am). Pari spins at clubs and...
View ArticleFirst Friday At The Galleries On Main
This past Friday my twitter feed was abreast with updates and information about the G40 Art Summit and that evening’s openings at the galleries on Broad Street. It’s no news to anyone in Richmond that...
View ArticleREVOLT OF THE APES Presents: An Interview With High Wolf
“Fuji Descent” – the opening track from Atlas Nation, the 2011 album released by High Wolf – imbues the listener with a sense of journey from it’s opening seconds, carried through in the song’s...
View ArticleTOMORROW NIGHT: Mansions On The Moon At Strange Matter!
LA based chillwave band Mansions On The Moon makes their Lightyears Tour stop at Strange Matter tomorrow night for what should be considered as Richmond’s “diamond in the rough” live performance to...
View ArticleSUNDAY: Tanane Whitfield At Glitch Gallery!
April 15 is not a Friday this year, nor is it ever the first of whatever day of the week it happens to be (Sunday, this year). In fact, for many people (independent contractors like myself definitely...
View ArticleParty All Weekend With Slapdash At Strange Matter!
I know we're getting notice to you at the absolute last minute on this one, but if you don't have any big weekend plans, you're gonna thank us, because Richmond's favorite hip-hop party host and...
View ArticleThe RVA Street Art Festival Ends Tomorrow! Meet The Artists Today.
What once was a decrepit skeleton of steel and concrete in the shadow of Shockoe Bottom is now a canvas illuminated with brilliant colors and detail by local and non-local muralist for the first ever...
View ArticleTHE CHEATS MOVEMENT : FIRST ROUND PHOTOS: RVA STREET ART FEST IS UNDERWAY –...
The RVA Street Art Festival is underway. Ed Trask has brought to RVA some of the best artists from around the country and they are doing it at the Shockoe Bottom Flood Wall Power Plant (the part of the...
View Article2ND ROUND PHOTOS: RVA STREET ART FESTIVAL [REPOST]
Yesterday was an amazing day for the RVA Street Art Festival. The weather was amazing and RVA took full advantage. This event is really a “festival” in every way. There are beer trucks, food carts,...
View ArticleOne Way Richmond's Show Picks 4/16-4/18
Monday, 4/16 RVA Big Band @ Balliceaux 9pm. 21+ Monday, 4/16 The Trigger System presents Polar Bear Club, The Wonder Years (pictured above), Transit, A Loss for Words, The Story So Far, Into It Over It...
View ArticleMISSION ACCOMPLISHED: FINAL ROUND PHOTOS – RVA STREET ART FESTIVAL [REPOST]
This was an amazing weekend for RVA. The RVA Street Art Festival lived up to the bill. The weather was perfect and tons of Richmonders came out to see some of the best artist from RVA and around the...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Michael Millions, "Jordan Jackson"
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of attention Michael Millions pays to every detail of his art. The Norfolk State Mass Comm alumnus wrote, directed, and shot the entirety of his new video for...
View ArticleRVA No. 8: Casey Veggies
It wasn’t hard to tell when I met Casey Jones, better known as Casey Veggies, that I was with a perfect example of a self-made hip-hop artist. When you first listen to a Casey Veggies record, it’s...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: James River Film Festival Presents Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song!
This is going to be epic. As one of the final events comprising this year's James River Film Festival, which began on April 12, the James River Film Society will be presenting a theatrical showing of...
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