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RVA Mag Presents: Local Shows 8/20-8/23
Monday, 8/20: The All Stars Tour feat Suicide Silence (pictured above), Unearth, The Word Alive, I See Stars, Stick To Your Guns, Attila, For The Fallen Dreams, Stray From The Path, Make Me Famous,...
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Peeling Back The Black Curtain: An Interview With Sunn O)))
It may be easy for a listener to feel like they have Sunn O))) pegged. Their music at first seems like a catalog of heavy metal tropes, isolated, exaggerated, and distended - the slow crawl of their...
View ArticleTUESDAY: The Catalyst End Their US Tour At Strange Matter
RVA's masters of psychedelic noise-metal, The Catalyst, have spent the past month on the road, bringing their brand new LP, Voyager, to towns all over the United States. Now they're coming home to...
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Sounds Of RVA Presents: On The Horizon #23
If you didn't attend the GWAR-B-Q this weekend, you missed out. Two stages, free Redbull, hotties left and right, and, of course, GWAR were all highlights of the day. While some people were hoping this...
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DAILY RECORD: Botanist
Botanist – III: Doom In Bloom/Allies (Total Rust Records) Anybody who has been an avid fan of music in whatever its forms for any substantial length of time might find it hard to be genuinely surprised...
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SHOW REVIEW: Planes Mistaken For Stars
Planes Mistaken For Stars, Smoke Or Fire, Regents, Family Cat Sunday August 12 at Strange Matter Colorado's Planes Mistaken For Stars have always been a big deal in Richmond, beginning with a house...
View ArticleTHURSDAY: Three Great VA Bands Join CT's Mercies At The Canal Club
This Thursday, fans of intelligent, creative music that stays outside the box and avoids run of the mill cliches will find no better place to be within the Richmond city limits than the Canal Club....
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Luggage's Sex Drugs & Rap Is Out Now!
RVA's Luggage, the hip hop tag team known as Ben FM and Oxen Johnson, took a break for a while after the release of their first album, Speak Easy Luggage. But they made a triumphant return to the local...
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TONIGHT: Floodwall W/ The Dream Machine
Last hump night at The Republic was one for the books. Radio Rubber Room presented City Problems, a poignantly harmonized acoustic duo, who warmed the crowd for The Dream Machine and the beloved...
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One Way Richmond's Must-See Show Previews 8/22-8/28
FEATURE SHOW Friday, August 24, 7 p. m. Richard Kamerman & David Kirby, Lost Trail, Ting Ting Jahe @ Ghostprint Gallery – Donations/All Ages. This is the last night of the Ninja Hymnbook Remarks...
View ArticleDAILY FIX: Feistodon, "A Commotion"
Here's a really awesome/totally insane thing that I've been meaning to post for a while. Some of you may remember that back in April, on Record Store Day, Mastodon and Feist released a split single in...
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RVA Mag X The Cheats Movement Exclusive: A Conversation with Phonte
In professional sports, the term “pro’s pro” is used to describe an athlete that other professional athletes look to as an example of their craft. Derek Jeter is a pro’s pro. Magic Johnson was a pro’s...
View ArticleFRIDAY: Dub 101 RVA--Back To Bacon Edition
All around RVA, the students are headed back to school. And in celebration, B.A.D.A.S.S. Raves and Cumulus are starting the weekend off right with the latest edition of Dub 101: Back To Bacon! I hear...
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DAILY RECORD: Rome Montana
Rome Montana - Self-Medication (self-released) I recently got a chance to check out local emcee Rome Montana’s EP. Even though it was short (6 tracks), for what his direction is, it's definitely worth...
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Seven Days Of Karaoke In RVA
As the lights go down, a wave of silence ripples through a crowd eager to know who the next gladiator to enter the ring will be. When your name is called, an initial lump forms in your throat, as if...
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REVOLT OF THE APES Presents: An Interview With Dead Confederate
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” No one here is insinuating that Georgia’s Dead Confederate smell sweet (we’re guessing on an aroma more Wild...
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RVA Mag Presents: Local Shows 8/24-8/26:
Friday, 8/24: Flesh Mountain Boys @ Balliceaux 10PM Friday, 8/24: Richard Kamerman & David Kirby (pictured above), Lost Trail, Ting Ting Jahe @ Ghostprint Gallery – Donations/All Ages, 7PM Friday,...
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ART FEED: Blown Apart Animals with Nychos
Mixing skate, hotrod and comic book cultures, Nychos is creating a funny albeit gross visual vocabulary on a super large scale. Residing in London and working with contemporaries like ROA, Pixel Pancho...
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SATURDAY: Good Life RVA Launches At Kingdom!
There's a brand new weekly party happening at Kingdom on Saturday nights, and it's kicking off this weekend! Good Life RVA is this city's very own taste of the good life, featuring 2 bars and 2 DJs...
View ArticleTONIGHT: Body Movin W/KRAMES & Bobby LaBeat At NY Deli!
It's that time of the month and this time we've got special guest and former Richmonder Cobra Krames in the spot! If ya don't know Krames get familiar: Known for big booty bass, Krames gon get this...
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