Scott Castro

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Preview: Conor Oberst at Friday Cheers, June 2

Creativity is often born out of limitation. Take away all but a few colors from a painter’s palette and she’ll be forced to improvise,...

How Richmond’s EggHunt Records Label Became the Go-To Place For Rising Indie Rock

A box containing hundreds of copies of the Avers album “Omega / Whatever” sits open, tucked under a chair behind an unmarked...

One Voice: Singing Groups Come Together to Support Richmond Arts Programs

In 2014, a year after Armstrong High School’s choir sang at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York, the program was still strained for...

Preview: Richmond Symphony’s “Video Games Live” Goes For a Younger Audience

For the past six decades, the Richmond Symphony has layered the walls of the city’s historic theatres with a medley of masterworks from the...

Interview: Richmond Rocker J. Roddy Walston Talks Album Inspiration and His New Baby

After more than two years of hard touring in support of a 2013 album, “Essential Tremors,” local rocker J. Roddy Walston and the Business...

The Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Hopes a New Rehearsal Space Will Benefit City Students

The halls hum with the reverberations of a small army of violas on a Tuesday afternoon at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. The sounds...

Magic Hour

One student’s Beyoncé-like experience with SPARC’s Live Art program.

Noisemaker

Preview: Local musician Anousheh returns with her first full-length album in 10 years.