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24/05/2024

One more time for the people in the back..🤪

TONIGHT Paul Oakenfold is playing Ember Music Hall! Whoooooooooos coming????

My interview is below - Ill see ya on the floor tonight, time to go into my roots - Rave out!

In this exclusive interview with RVA Magazine we speak with Paul Oakenfold, a trailblazer in electronic music for over 30 years and frequently named the world's #1 DJ, has profoundly influenced the genre. His journey began in the late '70s, leading to transformative roles globally and pioneering the...

23/05/2024

Ok here we go. This is my Paul Oakenfold interview. It's a long read but def got into some history and fun stuff.

Most importantly he is playing Ember Music Hall tomorrow - so get those last tickets while you can!! See ya there!

Joanna Oremland & Jessie along with Elliott Burton & Joey B, Oliver Caine, and BLKLIGHT.

Paul Oakenfold‘s career spans over 30 years, during which he has elevated and shaped electronic music, including being listed as the #1 DJ in the world multiple times. I came to know Oakenfold through BBC Radio 1 and the popular Global Underground series. The first DJs (and really the only ones) I...

21/02/2024

🐬 Here's my Spotify playlist for Reinhold at V***r RAVE!🐬

🔹VAPORBASS (Retro Dolphin~!) a collection of tracks for this weeks get down at the Broadberry on Thursday. The first 30 tracks or so are ones Im looking to possibly play, the rest are to pull from and for inspiration.

🔹Let me know if there are any you particularly like?

🔹Ticket Giveaway (look for it on the main page!

Link to playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1t6EXl9BodETX1ZGWgSy0g?si=df343b2e6dd94fc9

17/03/2023

Tune in to RADIO RVA Episode 23 with a set full of club bangers from HOODY!

Back like he never left, one of Richmond’s favorite party rocker returns! Originally known as DJ Hoody Weather since 2013, Hoody became a staple of the Richmond party scene holding down weekly residencies and appearances at hot spots like Helen’s, New York Deli, Starlite and more.

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Join RADIO RVA Episode 23 featuring Richmond's renowned party rocker, HOODY! Discover his unique open-format DJ style and catch him at upcoming events in the city's hottest venues. Experience the energy of the comeback!

10/02/2023

Tune in to RADIO RVA Episode 21 and experience the sounds of Kamaloscope.

This RVA-based DJ and producer is making waves in the DJ community with his diverse musical style. From chill beats to heavy dubstep, Kamaloscope is a versatile artist who is sure to captivate you. Don't miss this multi-genre bass mix that showcases his talent. If you're a fan of dubstep, bass house, and drum and bass, then you won't want to miss this episode.

Stay up to date with Kamaloscope by following him on Instagram at .

LISTEN UP HERE : http://bit.ly/3RTg7z6
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09/02/2023

Tune into RADIO RVA Episode 20, featuring DJ Jay Dion as he takes you on a musical journey through various genres, including Electronic RnB, Electronic Pop, Amapiano, Kuduro, Afro/Deep House, Soul/Classic House, Tech House, Progressive House, GoGo, Bance Music, Baltimore Club Music, New Jersey Club Music, Dancehall, Old School Hip Hop and RnB. Stay connected with DJ Jay Dion at Jay Dion

LISTEN TO THE FULL SET HERE : https://bit.ly/3IdUmXz
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16/01/2023

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Thank you for supporting independent media in Richmond, VA!

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16/01/2023

Artistic Experimentation and Dialogue at the ICA at VCU: An Interview with Dominic Willsdon and David Riley

The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at VCU is dedicated to fostering experimentation and dialogue within the realm of contemporary art. With a strong emphasis on engaging with current issues and trends, the ICA is a driving force in the Richmond arts conversation, particularly in its role as a bridge between VCU and the Broad Street Arts District.

In this interview, we speak with Executive Director Dominic Willsdon and Assistant Curator of Performance David Riley about their roles at the ICA and the organization's mission.

Dominic shares his background in the arts, having previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the ICA in London, UK, and explains why the multidisciplinary approach of the ICA format appeals to him.

David, who has a background in the underground music scene in Richmond, discusses his role in curating performance programming and the challenges of choosing and reaching out to artists who align with the ICA's mission.

FULL ARTICLE HERE : bit.ly/3QH39DZ

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11/01/2023

RVA SHOWS YOU MUST SEE THIS WEEK:
JANUARY 11 – JANUARY 17

⭐ FEATURED SHOW ⭐
Saturday, January 14, 7 PM

Last Minute Fest II, feat. The Mitras, Mad Abbey, Pipesleeve, Overunderdog, Sifter, Stevie Ashe
@ The Camel – $10 in advance, $12 day of show

It’s officially a new year, but I always take a little while to adjust. I don’t know about y’all, but I’ll still probably be writing the wrong year on things in March. One thing that does remind me that it is for-sure a new year, though, is when another anniversary comes around. For a bad example, the second anniversary of that whole stupid January 6 mess was a few days ago. And for a much better example, The Mitras are about to throw another Last Minute Fest, on the anniversary of the first one. And this time, while it is still coming together last-minute, it feels a lot more planned out — which surely means it’ll be even better than the first one!

Honestly, the first Last Minute Fest was the first thing that really made me notice The Mitras. A relatively new Richmond band at the time, they had to deal with the fact that two other bands had dropped off a show they’d booked at The Camel, and they were the only band left. Rather than wandering away with their tails between their legs, they just called every Richmond band they could think of, and ended up turning the evening into a nine-band event with less than two weeks notice. That kind of moxie was more than enough to get me to give the Mitras a second look.

CHECK THE REST IN HERE : https://bit.ly/3kbFQGh

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11/01/2023

RICHMOND MUSIC 2022, PART II: INDIE (SECOND HALF) 💥

OK, I should have known that this one in particular would go too long — when I made up these playlists before starting to write this article series, the indie playlist was the longest one by a significant amount. To put it in perspective, the rather lengthy hip hop playlist was under an hour; meanwhile, the indie playlist was over two hours.

With that in mind, we’ve still got a lot to get through that I didn’t manage to cover last time. Let’s dive right in. And as always, hit me up at [email protected] if you think I missed any essential 2022 RVA releases. Try as I might, I can’t catch ’em all. But here are quite a few great ones I did find.

FULL ARTICLE HERE : https://bit.ly/3W2EpXM

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09/01/2023

Let's start the week off with "The Blackwell Drip" a tribute to local rapper as Yemaya, the Great Mother, the Spirit of Creation, and deity of oceans and other bodies of water. The artwork was painted by and for .

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05/01/2023

RICHMOND MUSIC 2022, PART II: INDIE (FIRST HALF) 🔥🔥

Since I got to this city 30 years ago, Richmond’s had a thriving indie music scene. From wild house parties and tiny stages in small clubs to headlining gigs at The Broadberry and beyond, plenty of indie bands around Richmond distinguished themselves with excellent music this year.

Of course, before we go on, something’s gotta be clarified — what does indie mean? It’s not like hip hop, a genre with a set sound that everyone recognizes right away. It’s a more nebulous space, one that encompasses stuff that isn’t straight up rock n’ roll or mainstream pop, but isn’t far enough out to count as punk or experimental or anything like that. Bedroom pop, steely gothic postpunk, psychedelic slowcore, electro-retro-New-Wave, introspective emo-pop… all of this and more might be found somewhere in this list. You might not agree that everything I list here counts as indie, but one thing you do have to agree with me about: this is all great local music that came out in 2022.

FULL ARTICLE : https://bit.ly/3XcefD1

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04/01/2023

RVA SHOWS YOU MUST SEE THIS WEEK:
JANUARY 4 – JANUARY 10

⭐ FEATURED SHOW ⭐
Friday, January 6, 9 PM

Ten Pound Snail, Deli Kings, Destructo Disk
@ The Camel – $10 in advance, $12 day of show

Well hey, it’s the first show column of 2023! New year, new scene? No, probably not — none of the many subtle metamorphoses artistic communities go through conform that neatly to the whims of the calendar, and there’s no reason that should change now, as we enter another winter and try to push back the cold as the spectre of COVID lingers, never quite vanquished. However, one interesting thing does happen in the local live music scene as the calendar rolls over to a new year — the First Friday residence at The Camel changes hands. This year sees outgoing residents Honest Debts passing the torch to Ten Pound Snail.

This indie-psych trio has been making intriguing music here in RVA since back around the beginning of the pandemic, and are just about to follow up their enjoyable full-length debut, 2021’s Parlor Tricks, with a brand new collection called Tabula Rasa. It’s still a day away as I write this, so I haven’t heard the whole album, but my excitement for what Ten Pound Snail has in store for us has definitely been ramped up over the past year. They’ve released four advance singles for Tabula Rasa thus far, the most recent being “Glass Skin,” and all of them show off the band’s range and ability to create dynamic song structures that slowly grow and change over the course of several minutes. Plus, of course, this trio has a variety of killer riffs in their bag of (parlor) tricks, which they never shy away from deploying.

CHECK THE REST HERE : https://bit.ly/3vKge5v

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29/12/2022

LOCAL BUSINESS CHARGED UP ENTERTAINMENT VS MLB’S THE CLEVELAND GUARDIANS: WHO OWNS THE “C”?

According to the CEO of Charged Up Entertainment and local hip hop legend, Noah Oddo, the Cleveland Guardians have accused the company of infringing on their team’s new logo. Oddo stated that the Cleveland Guardians’ lawyers contacted him and demanded that he give up the Charged Up logo or relinquish his legal rights to protect the brand. Oddo claims that the Cleveland Guardians’ claim is baseless, as Charged Up Entertainment has been using its logo since 2015 and has never received any complaints about confusion in the marketplace.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved the mark to move forward, but the Cleveland Guardians Baseball Club has filed an objection to the request to trademark the Charged Up Entertainment logo, which has been in use since 2015.

FULL ARTICLE : https://bit.ly/3YTQNfp

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28/12/2022

RADIO RVA EPISODE 18 DJ DEVOLVED + DJ BEN SPEED ‘HYPERCOLOR' at The Jungle Room July 28th

A nonstop journey through the best underground dance jams of the past and present. Featuring tracks from a wide range of genres and decades, you'll hear tracks that only true crate diggers know about. Enjoy!

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LISTEN UP : https://bit.ly/3IbTgvF

27/12/2022

RICHMOND MUSIC 2022, PART I: HIP HOP 🎤🎤🎤

Richmond’s always a hotbed of musical activity within all genres, but one of the busiest year after year has got to be the RVA hip hop scene. 2022 was no exception, with all sorts of projects going on, both from scene veterans and rising stars on the come-up.

FULL ARTICLE: https://bit.ly/3C4Ycih

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22/12/2022

J. Roddy Walston, frontman of local rock band Palm Palm, is super talented, always entertaining, and doing something a little different. How many people write original Christmas songs? Not many in Richmond have tried, but last year he wrote a few and took them on the road. This year he has a whole album worth of music and is currently on The Second Annual Christmas To the Bone Tour from Lexington to Brooklyn with his latest stop being tonight at The Broadberry.

"Once a year, I get to fully turn into this like Mad Santa Man but it’s fun even for the guys in the band last year. A tour where there’s no pressure to be anything except happy and ridiculous. Just like turn the whole being in a rock band thing on its head a little bit and just be goofballs, come out into the crowd with ridiculous banter somewhere in between David Lee Roth and fake drunk Dean Martin kind of come out at the same time."

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FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://bit.ly/3v9vXuH
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09/12/2022

RADIO RVA EPISODE 17 | DJ DIEHARD presents: A BURIED CHROME COMPANION #15: 'Necksnappers From Hell'

Originally aired on WBDB Friday August 12, 2020 from 10pm to midnight, 'Necksnappers From Hell' is just an absolute blistering 2 hour set of heavy ass music 👹👹👹

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LISTEN UP HERE : https://bit.ly/3FjTNc5

SET LIST:
Vader- Vicious Circle
Division Speed- Blazing Heat
Bathory- Pace ‘Till Death
Aura Noir- Belligerent ‘Til Death
Slayer- Dittohead
Barbarian- Obtuse Metal
Bunker 66- Total Possession
Merciless Death- Power of Destiny
Darkthrone- The Key is Inside the Wall
Satyricon- Vikingland
Immortal- Noctambulant
Emperor- Ye Entrancemperium
Gorgoroth- Krig
Morbid Angel- Chambers of Dis
Ripping Co**se- Sweetness
Nasty Savage- Metal Knights
Infernal Majesty- Overlord
Grave Digger- Heart Attack
Venom- Red Light Fever
Sadistik Exekution- Internal Klok
Impaled Nazarene- Goat Perversion
Kreator- Under the Guillotine
Angelcorpse- Wolflust
Hail of Bullets- Red Wolves of Stalin
Wolfbrigade- Warsaw Speedwolf
Parasytic- Who’s to Blame?
Xecutioner- Metal Up Your Ass
Cannibal Co**se- The Pickaxe Murders
Mortician- Zombie Apocalypse

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09/12/2022

A great sandwich is a delicious gift you can eat. There are a bunch of places to get a good sandwich but where is THE place to go to get a great one? 🥪🥪

We are in the last weekend to vote and right now the sandwich shops leading the voting are and with and right behind them!

Which is your favorite? Have you voted yet? Be heard!

VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL HERE : bit.ly/3VrOzBw

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07/12/2022

Records. For those that don't know what a 'record' is -- they are flat vinyl disks that play warm and rich music sounds when put on a record player. We are kinda making a joke here but there are a ton of people that have no idea what they are or what the appeal is. But to the army of folks that are into that scene, this is THE way to experience music.

Besides selling records, the local music stores serve as a meeting place for people that share a deep love for music of all kinds and are a keystone of our local music culture and history. Luckily, we have an amazing variety of shops to choose from and Richmond is better for it.

So let's show some love to YOUR favourite spot!

has been Richmond's music source for a few decades and is leading the poll but are right there and you cannot go wrong with any of them.

Have you voted yet? Be heard!

VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL : bit.ly/3VrOzBw
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06/12/2022

SAVING HYRULE TOGETHER: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHMOND SINGER-SONGWRITER NATH 👋👋

Natalie Tyer, AKA Nath, is a singer songwriter from RVA whose music has a serious “wow” factor. She’s been releasing music for nearly a decade, recently following up her self-titled third album, from 2020, with a pair of digital singles: the Legend-Of-Zelda-themed “Let’s Save Hyrule Together,” released in July; and “Everything I Have,” released in September. Hearing Nath will leave you asking yourself, “How is she not famous?” It’s a rare question, and it indicates a rare talent. Anyone who has yet to hear Nath sing is certainly missing out. I wanted to shed some light on her work and ask about her writing process, so I sat down with her for an interview over at Galley in Bon Air.

FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://bit.ly/3iIWVGw

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Natalie Tyer, AKA Nath, is a singer songwriter from RVA whose music has a serious “wow” factor. She’s been releasing music for nearly a decade, recently following up her self-titled third album, from 2020, with a pair of digital singles: the Legend-Of-Zelda-themed “Let’s Save Hyrule Togeth...

03/12/2022

No matter what anyone has to say, it takes real talent to get a party moving and it doesn't take long for everyone else to figure that out. It is either fun af -- or you are leaving the dance floor. Here is a celebration of the people in town that get the party popping.

Right now, the top local deejays are with nipping at their heels.

Have you voted yet? Go ahead and tell us what's up. Be heard!

VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL : bit.ly/3VrOzBw
CHECK OUT RADIO RVA FOR LOCAL DJ SETS: https://bit.ly/3UuYlSv

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03/12/2022

Where do we start? Richmond has an amazing music scene and everyone has a favorite band. There are so many good bands that this feels almost impossible to boil it down to a few that everyone has to see -- and this poll isn't really about that. This is to give people on the outside a glimpse of what is happening and to bring them into supporting the talent that is here in town. Homegrown Richmond music is the absolutely best -- go check out as many of these as you can and vote!

At 2500+ votes in the books, is out in front with

Have you voted yet? Go ahead and tell us what's up. Be heard!

VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL : bit.ly/3VrOzBw

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03/12/2022

When we are discussing the metal-punk-hardcore music scene in Richmond, VA -- we are talking about an extremely diverse group and for people that don't know, it's one of the most supportive of each other.

There are so many different approaches and talents that even doing a poll isn't going to accurately tell us what's really happening out there -- but its a start right? Everyone on this list is worth a listen and we hope by putting this out there, more people will.

That said, after 2500+ votes we have the genre bending leading followed by .o.t.w.l.c.f.t.s.c.b.m.h

Have you voted yet? Go ahead and tell us what's up. Be heard!

🌲🌲 VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL : bit.ly/3VrOzBw

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02/12/2022

A BIT OF STASIS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PALMYRA 👋👋

On a cold Tuesday afternoon I found myself sitting around a poker table with the three members of one of my favorite local bands, Palmyra. Although the table was not set for us to play, I was hosting a game later that evening, the image was still rather amusing to me in the moment. We had gathered because, somehow, RVA Magazine had yet to cover this fantastic up-and-coming folk trio, and to discuss a new series of videos that they have put together, with their song “Presence” premiering today, Friday December 2nd at noon on RVAMag TV.

FULL ARTICLE: https://bit.ly/3EYvksl

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30/11/2022

CATCHING THE NEXT SKA WAVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROGER LIMA OF LESS THAN JAKE

Less Than Jake reached a lot of ears at the same time The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish were, but have had a lasting impact far beyond the blip of commercial success that ska had. Over the course of their 30 years together, a lot has changed in the industry, but their passion and seamless transition between records and songs has not. Before Less Than Jake’s upcoming Richmond show at The Canal Club on Friday, December 2, we caught up with bassist Roger Lima, who talked with us about what still keeps things strong after 30 years, fans from all eras of Less Than Jake, and what songs they’d play at a wedding.

FULL ARTICLE: https://bit.ly/3GZddFy

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30/11/2022

RVA SHOWS YOU MUST SEE THIS WEEK: NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 6

⭐ FEATURED SHOW ⭐
Saturday, December 3, 7 PM
Alabama Thunderpussy, Suplecs, Loud Night
@ Richmond Music Hall at Capital Ale House – $20 in advance, $25 day of show
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💥Wednesday, November 30, 7 PM
Hotel Neon, Lowercase Noises, Slow Meadow, Benjamin Mauch
@ The Camel – $15
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💥Thursday, December 1, 7 PM
Local H @ The Canal Club – $17
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💥Friday, December 2, 7 PM
Bit Brigade @ Richmond Music Hall At Capital Ale House – $15
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💥Saturday, December 3, 7 PM
Archers Of Loaf, Truth Club
@ The Broadberry – $25
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💥Sunday, December 4, 8 PM
Kidz At Play @ The Camel – $10
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💥Monday, December 5, 7 PM
Floor Space, Lowlife Tea Party, Camp Werewolf
@ The Camel – $10 in advance, $12 day of show
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💥Tuesday, December 6, 7 PM
State Champs, Hunny, Between You & Me, Save Face
@ The National – $27
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FULL ARTICLE : http://bit.ly/3ijA2Jz

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30/11/2022

With 1200+ votes already in the books, we are starting to see which underground Richmond rapper(s) people want to see.

Right now, are leading the way but that can change on a dime -- make sure and let your voice be heard and VOTE today.

VOTE IN THE READER'S POLL : https://bit.ly/3VrOzBw

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29/11/2022

Gettin right at a few weekends back with .buckee and

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