Sounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon #21
This past week our neighbor Randy Blythe of Lamb of God was finally freed from the Czech prison and made his way back to his favorite coffee shop here in Richmond. Richmond really came together in...
View ArticleRadio Rubber Room EP 73: Relacksachian
What a relaxin' episode. That is probably because Relacksachian stopped by to chillax on the Rubber Room. They brought their brand of Appalachian inspired improvisational music and left all the g's...
View ArticleConservatively, It Takes Forever: An Interview With 86 Reality
I don’t know about you, but I have been hearing a tremendous amount about 86 Reality for a while now. 86 Reality is a public access television show, airing Tuesday nights at 9 PM on Comcast channel 95,...
View ArticleSeasons With Brian And Julia: A Documentary About A Small Virginia Farm
Seasons With Brian And Julia is an independently produced documentary by local filmmaker Robert Griffith, which acts both as an intimate portrait of the lives of one farming family in rural Virginia...
View ArticleFutura Is Coming To RVA!
Legendary street artist Futura will be hitting the streets of Richmond VA this Friday! Futura, who got his start painting on the New York subways back in the 70s when that was still possible, soon...
View ArticleTONIGHT: Skitzo Sound Movement w/ The Dream Machine At The Republic
Last Wednesday, Radio Rubber Room presented The Dream Machine and bluegrass six-piece Relacksachian. TDM kept the tempo slow and steady with some of their more recent, folkier songs - a nice segway for...
View ArticleDAILY RECORD: Killing Joke
Killing Joke – MMXII (Spinefarm Records) The recent disappearance of Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman acts as a reminder of the manner in which the eccentricities and extranaeity surrounding the band...
View ArticleOne Way Richmond's Must-See Show Previews 8/8-8/14
FEATURE SHOW: Richmond Jazz Festival Saturday, August 11 – August 12, 12 p. m. – 10:30 p. m. Saturday: Joye B. Moore, Robbie Cunningham, Doors Wide Open, Maestro J, Ravi Coltrane, Allen Stone, Keiko...
View ArticleRVA No. 9: Downbeat Switch
Downbeat Switch has quite a history. Known to their fans as DbS, this Richmond-based rock group was initially conceived 80 miles outside the city limits in the tiny rural town of Mathews, VA back in...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Redd Kross, "Stay Away From Downtown"
Redd Kross started in Los Angeles over 30 years ago, when founding brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald were still in middle school. Jeff was 14 at the time, and Steven was only 10, but nonetheless, they...
View ArticleSUNDAY: Planes Mistaken For Stars Reunion Tour Hits RVA!
Oh man, remember these guys? Back in the first few years of the 2000s, it seemed like all of Richmond was in love with the emotionally-driven hardcore punk of Colorado's Planes Mistaken For Stars, who...
View ArticleDAILY RECORD: Unholy Thoughts
Unholy Thoughts - The Attic (Forcefield Records) I'm not entirely sure if there was something in Richmond's water supply around the middle of the last decade that led to the rapid upswing in bands...
View ArticleSATURDAY: Girls Rock RVA At The Hippodrome!
Girls Rock! RVA is an organization dedicated to empowering girls to collaborate together in an environment encouraging creativity and self-expression. It has been in existence here in Richmond since...
View ArticleRVA Magazine Presents: Local Shows 8/10-8/12
Friday, August 10th: Canary Oh Canary, Dangerosa, Parlour Shakedown @ Strange Matter 5 PM (Early) Friday, August 10th: The Pilgrim, Humungus (pictured above), Auroboros, Into the Black @ Strange Matter...
View ArticleRVA No. 9: Michael Millions
There’s a certain pride to calling a place home. It’s more than just the people you’ve met, or knowing the best spot to get fried oysters, or even those unique stories that come with a typical Friday...
View ArticleREVOLT OF THE APES Presents: An Interview With Last Remaining Pinnacle
The fact that the latest release from Last Remaining Pinnacle is entitled Visitors will probably never stop putting a smile on our face. It’s not that the massive, monstrous cascade of crushing,...
View ArticleSATURDAY: Trillectro Music Festival In DC!
This Saturday, August 11th, the good folks at DC to BC bring you the first Trillectro Music Festival at the Fairgrounds in Washington D.C. If you enjoy good hip hop and electro, there is no other place...
View ArticleDC Intergalactic SpeakEasy - This weekend!
The Intergalactic SpeakEasy DC is happening on Saturday, August 11th 2012. Party Liberation Front (PLF), from here in Richmond, and Mischief from DC, are once again teaming up for the Intergalactic...
View ArticleRVA No. 9: Jeff Soto
Of all the art world heavy hitters that came through RVA over the last few months, Jeff Soto just might be the heaviest. Initially inspired as a high-school student in the late 80s by pictures of New...
View ArticleDAILY RECORD:Creem
Creem – Creem (Deranged/Katorga Works Records) For a genre that often seems to define itself by its wildness and irreverence, it might seem conceptually inconsistent how reverent and bound-to-tradition...
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