Peter McElhinney

Indonesian composer and vocalist Peni Candra Rini returns with "Jiwa Kala," a new collaboration carrying an environmental message.

A genre-bending local band gets Newlin recognition.

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.