Shockoe Sessions Live! Rewind - Episodes Tagged with “Rva”

Episode 81: Roughshod

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500

Roughshod is a groove-heavy, alternative rock band from Richmond, Virginia. The group’s driving rhythm section, unique arrangements, and bold vocals create a sound that is as accessible as it is surprising. With songs in Spanish and English and off-center chordings, their songs fuse pieces of the band members’ varied backgrounds.

Having formed in 2021, Roughshod wrote the songs for their first EP, Attic Hours, at Austin’s house (guitar, vocals) while waiting for live music to return to the world. This imposed woodshedding led to the band’s tight-knit chemistry that draws fans to their high energy shows today.

Episode 80: Leslie and The Dots

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500

Leslie Lilburn is a Northside singer-songwriter who grew up in scenic Front Royal, VA and moved to Richmond in 2021. His vocation was thrust upon him in his youth as a result of constant and intense exposure to the music of the British Invasion; later in life, a love of the country music of the 60's and 70's seeped into his brain. The powerful synthesis that resulted produces songs of joy, beauty, and heartbreak that would make a fine addition to the soundtrack of a Tarantino film. He passes his time in a well-appointed garage studio, Murphy’s Pocket, with his band, The Dots.

The Dots came to be through serendipitous occurrences, years of friendship, and frequenting a delicious RVA staple of a restaurant, Dots Back Inn. Consisting of Michael Lamp, Robin Liebenthal, Robert Whitehead, and Kevin Vorhis, The Dots bring a plethora of varied musical influences together to help create something beautifully unique, yet complimentary to Leslie’s songwriting.

Episode 70: The Sunslingers

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:00:00 -0400

From the heart of Virginia and packing the heat of the American spirit comes a band that trades bullets for ballads and gun smoke for golden harmonies. The Sunslingers are blazing trails through the Americana landscape with fiddle fire, the rolling thunder of the upright bass, drums to bring the rain, and guitar lines that cut cleaner than a desert horizon.

Rooted in storytelling and raised on the rhythms of country, gypsy jazz, and roots rock, The Sunslingers bring you songs about love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, glory and grit. These are not just songs—they’re saloon doors swinging open on your soul, and they’re best experienced live.

When The Sunslingers take the stage, you’re not just watching a show—you’re stepping into a new frontier. One where the only thing outlawed is ennui, and every chord carries the weight of redemption.

Set List
Crossroads
Carnivals
Why Did You Leave Me?
Hard Road
Unsolvable You
Julie
Scorched Earth
Red Flag
Time In Between
High Noon
Long Way Down
Bird At My Window

Episode 69: Afro-Zen Allstars

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:00:00 -0400

Afro-Zen Allstars, Richmond's guardians of global grooves, is a high-energy little big band featuring blazing horns, a driving rhythm section, and inspired instrumental jams.

With an extensive repertoire of material from across the globe, most notably the exotic sounds birthed in Ethiopia during its' musical "Golden Age" of the 1960's and '70's, the joyful music of Afro-Zen exists at the place where African musical tradition intersects with Jazz and Jam, rocking both body and spirit.

Set List
Selasa
Yekatit
Dewel
Muramba Doro
Belomi Benna
Here is Freedom
Zombie
Song For South Africa

Episode 68: The Sugar Hollows

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:00:00 -0400

The Sugar Hollows is “some kind of rock band" from Richmond, VA. The band was formed in 2020 when Mike and Gabe became neighbors in an apartment complex during the nationwide lockdown and heard each other playing music through the walls one day. A few jam sessions here and there quickly became a number of gigs throughout Virginia and North Carolina where the two played covers by the likes of Jim Croce, Brent Cobb, Lord Huron, Kings of Leon, and everything in between. By 2022, they had recruited new members, Sean and Noah, to join their journey and released the band's first singles ‘Follow the River’ and 'Sweet Virginia Girl." Their debut self-titled album included 10 songs and was released in 2023.

After the release, which garnered some positive regional and national press, the band embarked on their maiden east coast tour with stops in every major city from Georgia to Delaware including Tennessee where they appeared on multiple festival lineups and radio shows.

The group's follow up sophomore album ‘Radio Waves’ was released in May of 2024 and included another 10 original songs that really began to identify who The Sugar Hollows are and the direction they are heading as they continue to explore new ways to communicate their music. 2025 sees The Sugar Hollows continuing to grow and playing their most notable shows yet including performances at FloydFest, Riverrock, and Altria Theater.

Episode 67: The Barons

Shockoe Sessions Live! — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:30:00 -0400

The Barons is a US alternative band comprised of lead singer and guitarist Peyton Alley, drummer Mathes Glymph, lead guitarist Josiah Ragland, and bassist Kirtland Gray. Forming in 2016, the Virginia natives’ repertoire include various sounds ranging from heavy-hitting indie rock to a lighter fair of introspective love songs. The band’s upcoming record "Le Chateau" embodies returning to death in nature and illustrates the contrast of beauty and destruction that lie in The Barons' sound. The Barons have supported some major alternative acts over the past few years such as Judah & The Lion, The Aces, Barns Courtney, and Catfish and the Bottlemen and amassed a large following on the East Coast headlining festivals and venues alike.

Set List
Way Out
Would You Want It
TPG
Spider
A Word from Our Sponsors
Bouquet
Gator
Gator II
Yard Sale
Alive