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11/17/2009 -- New York's Emilyn Stine's band is playing the Plaza Bowl on Dec. 18 and needs Richmond bands to be on the bill with her. She is punk influenced rock. Contact her here.
 

11/8/2009 -- Every single new local music magazine/newspaper/website/whatever does a story on the Sound of Music studio in its first or second issue.

 

11/5/2009 -- Easy Street has closed and reopened as something else.

 

Buttercup has broken up. T-Bone got married. The band will reorganize as Loversville.
 

10/28/09 -- Blue Line Highway's CD added to the CD Gallery.

 

10/26/09 -- Meade Skelton's new 45 rpm single, "From the Outside Looking In" and "Sweet Tea" is for sale on vinyl at Plan 9.
 

10/20/2009 -- Tobacco Company is looking for a piano player with a Las Vegas feel for one weeknight a week. Call 782-9555, ext. 209.

10/14/2009 -- Monday nights are karaoke with Gray and Katie at Cary Street Cafe. More than 2,000 song selections and a variety of costumes so you can sing in disguise. Danny Plotnick hosts X-Box 360 Rockband on Thursday nights at 10 p.m.

 

10/6/2009 -- Fieldcrest Live Weekly reports that Nancy Bohannon, owner of A Major Music, died of cancer last week with her sons, Buster and Travis Bohannon, by her side. Contributions can be sent to the VCU Massey Cancer Center, Thomas Palliative Care Fund, P.O. Box 980037, Richmond, 23298-0037.

 

Nancy was one of the first advertisers in the Richmond Music Journal and stayed in until the end, with her $25 quarter page ads that challenged me to learn design. She paid faithfully and was always a place I could leave the paper and it would not be thrown out or covered over by other papers. For a long time she had the West End to herself as far as musical supplies. Then Don Warner Music came in less than a mile away and we talked about how much that was going to hurt. Then Don Warner was gone, but Sam Ash and Guitar Center came in, and we talked about how much that was going to hurt, but she hung in. After her husband died, it probably got harder. She was always happy and in a good mood in her little music store.

 

9/26/09 -- Another page gone. I'm no longer doing the Top 30 Hot List because I haven't been keeping up with all the local publications, and so much is online now.
 

9/20/2009 -- Red, Hot and Blue BBQ on Broad has closed. I've only heard of one band that ever played there, one that had a standing Wednesday night gig, but that may have stopped and they never told me. Please look at the weekly recurring events calendar and if you see any you know aren't going on anymore, let me know.
 



My cat Merly, who sat on the Richmond Music Journal from February 1997 to when the print edition ended, passed away July 15, 2009, at age 13. She is so missed. (Photos, right.)

There is a Richmond Music Journal group on Facebook where you all can join and post your own photos and gigs. Someone foreign bought up richmondmusicjournal.com to just park ads on. That is not cool, but we're not going to try to buy it from them, we'll just stay here on this site.
 

The complete 11 years of print copies of the Richmond Music Journal are available on microfilm at the State Library of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University library for your researching pleasure.

 

Spay and neuter your pets, your neighbor's pets, and any animals you can catch and release.
 

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The
Richmond Music Journal is owned and operated by
Mariane Matera
since November 1993.

 

 

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