Peter McElhinney

2nd BRITTANNY ANDERSON Bar Buoy, Black Lodge, Metzger Bar & Butchery, Pink Room

Breakout singer Veronica Swift is a festival headliner. Photo courtesy of CJF.

Former "American Idol" contestant Maddy Curtis finds musical community in Richmond and releases her debut album.

Lauren Vincelli says the River City is a “full-blown” pizza town with so many interesting things happening here from a “new age of exploration to some old school places.”

Drivers on the Downtown Expressway, Powhite Parkway and Boulevard Bridge started getting the message following the adoption of a new all-electronic toll (AET) system in late February. The Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority says its new cashless system eliminates the need for toll booths on its roads, allowing motorists without an E-ZPass to maintain speed crossing the James River or cruising downtown.

A new studio in Henrico County offers a hub for musicians and instructors.

Burma Jam finds a new audience thanks to a catalog rerelease.

Released without fanfare earlier this summer, the album “Space Bomb” functions much as soundtrack as statement. It is a trick Nordic label ECM pulled off for decades — having great players recorded to works as well at the surface as in the depths of the interplay. But where ECM had a chamber jazz sound, “Space Bomb” leans into the blues, soul and funk.

Capsule reviews of Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown's "A Supreme Blue," plus the latest Piranha Rama album, "Phony Frontier."

Seasoned Richmond musicians join forces for an album release.