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Celebrate Juneteenth in style, catch a pair of album release shows, and dive into another busy week of live music in Ric...
06/17/2026

Celebrate Juneteenth in style, catch a pair of album release shows, and dive into another busy week of live music in Richmond. Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must see June 17 - June 23!

FEATURED SHOW Friday, June 19, 7 PM Juneteenth, feat. Kings, Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers, Shormey, Robalu Gibsun, Habeeb, Sweet Potatoes, Heavy Petting @ The Camel – $12-$20 (order tickets HERE) I’m so glad Juneteenth is a federal holiday now. Not because of shallow bu****it like getting a da...

From hometown favorites to touring heavy hitters, Richmond's stages are overflowing with talent this week. Here's RVA Mu...
06/10/2026

From hometown favorites to touring heavy hitters, Richmond's stages are overflowing with talent this week. Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must see June 10 - June 16!

Main photo by Aspen DeRosa.

FEATURED SHOW Saturday, June 13, 8 PM Bucko (Photo by Aspen DeRosa), Ma’am, Flat Tired @ The Camel – $15 (order tickets HERE) I’ve been in some moods lately, y’all. If you’d asked me 10 years ago, I’d have said undergoing a gender transition at 39 was my midlife crisis. Maybe it still co...

It's Wednesday, local music fans. You know what that means! Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must ...
06/03/2026

It's Wednesday, local music fans. You know what that means! Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must see June 3 - June 9!

FEATURED SHOW Friday, June 5, 5 PM Make Space opening reception, feat. Logan From The Internet (main photo courtesy of Tall Joshua), DuctTape Jesus, Erin Lunsford, You’neek Nu’york, Alayla Armon, Spurweezy @ Gallery 5 – Free! When you’ve been around for a time in which civil rights were stea...

The third annual Charged Up Fest is taking over Richmond with a full week of events, highlighted by this Saturday's birt...
05/27/2026

The third annual Charged Up Fest is taking over Richmond with a full week of events, highlighted by this Saturday's birthday concert. Beyond that hip-hop celebration, there are still plenty of stacked lineups and great shows happening all across the city over the next seven days. Get to the gig! Enjoy live music!

Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must see May 27 - June 2!

In the modern era, hip hop generally lives and dies by the single. Album artists are a rare and delightful vintage — because after all, anyone can bang out a hot three-minute single. It’s the artists who put out excellent new albums year after year after year who will really stand the test of ti...

Richmond rap heavyweights NOAH-O, Big No, & King Delt bring the city's spirit to life on the video for "Richmond Times."...
05/21/2026

Richmond rap heavyweights NOAH-O, Big No, & King Delt bring the city's spirit to life on the video for "Richmond Times."

Don't miss these artists and countless more lighting up this year's Charged Up Fest, taking over Richmond from May 26 through May 31.

Survival is one thing, endurance is another. That feeling of persistence, that sense of continuing to move forward despite the weight pressing down from every direction, it pulses through Richmond’s music scene year after year, nowhere more prominently than within its hip-hop community and nowhere...

Richmond musician 4la7la bends emotion into breathtaking new shapes on "Thief, Farewell!," the stunning performance that...
05/21/2026

Richmond musician 4la7la bends emotion into breathtaking new shapes on "Thief, Farewell!," the stunning performance that earned her this year's Tiny In-Studio Session Contest victory from WNRN.

When you think about emotion, what’s truly staggering isn’t that it’s formed by 86 billion neurons firing across the brain, but how quickly those signals can rearrange themselves and completely alter a feeling. A single thought can sharpen it, distort it, deepen it, or erase it entirely. Emoti...

Richmond dreamweaver Charli Ra searches for peace and release on "Siddhartha Gautama," the new single featuring Kevo! al...
05/21/2026

Richmond dreamweaver Charli Ra searches for peace and release on "Siddhartha Gautama," the new single featuring Kevo! alongside a spiritually restorative new video.

Most of us first learned about the Buddha’s Great Renunciation as children, and at that age, it must have sounded absurd: a man willingly abandoning luxury, comfort, and royal privilege to live a simpler life. When you’re young, so much of the world still feels out of reach, and growing up often...

Metal titans Lamb of God conjure a harrowing vision of societal collapse on "Into Oblivion," the crushing title track to...
05/21/2026

Metal titans Lamb of God conjure a harrowing vision of societal collapse on "Into Oblivion," the crushing title track to the band's latest album.

As society and nature increasingly seem to turn against us, it’s important to remember that much of this collapse is self-inflicted. Natural disasters now feel uncanny and apocalyptic, while principled behavior has become deviant and abhorrent, but we are the ones who reshaped the world into this ...

Richmond rapper NSG Monté raises the stakes with his new single & video, "My Year."
05/21/2026

Richmond rapper NSG Monté raises the stakes with his new single & video, "My Year."

Call your shot. Manifest it. Set the blueprint before you ever take the first step. For some people, success comes through spreadsheets, five-year plans, and color-coded organization. For Richmond rapper NSG Monté, it comes from finding the right beat, stepping in front of the mic, and letting a fl...

Heat and rain be damned. There's far too much musical greatness flooding Richmond this Memorial Day weekend and beyond t...
05/20/2026

Heat and rain be damned. There's far too much musical greatness flooding Richmond this Memorial Day weekend and beyond to spend it sitting at home instead of catching a great show.

Here's RVA Must-See Shows with your guide to shows you must see May 20 - May 26!

FEATURED SHOW Sunday, May 24, 6 PM Asian American Pacific Islander Month Celebration, feat. Beya (Photo by Miranda Jean), Cats In Houses, Gary Luong, Cyrussx, Sami Gardner, Himadri Bapon, Vale @ The Camel – $12 (order tickets HERE) May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month here in the ...

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