A Place to Bury Strangers and ADULT. bring the noise to Richmond Music Hall

The New York noise-rock band shares a 300-capacity Main Street room with ADULT. and The Treasury on Thursday, Nov. 12.

Three hundred people, one stage on East Main Street, and a band that has spent about twenty years building a reputation for volume. Bring earplugs on Thursday, Nov. 12. You will want them.

A Place to Bury Strangers play Richmond Music Hall on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m., with ADULT. and The Treasury. The room holds 300. Tickets are through eTix.

Richmond is one stop on a short November run. After Main Street, A Place to Bury Strangers head to Asheville on Nov. 13 and Chicago on Nov. 20.

The bill is the draw as much as the headliner. A Place to Bury Strangers and ADULT. have crossed paths before: both played Substance in Los Angeles in 2025, on a lineup with TR/ST and Geneva Jacuzzi (Resident Advisor). Promoters on this run have called the pairing a rare meeting of two acts who work at the loud, abrasive end of underground music. ADULT. bring industrial electronics. A Place to Bury Strangers bring noise-rock. A 300-cap room is about as close as you can get to both.

The band's year has been about looking back through the vault. In April, A Place to Bury Strangers released *Rare and Deadly* on their own Dedstrange label, a rarities collection drawn from material made between 2015 and 2025, as mxdwn reported when it was announced. The record came out on CD, cassette, vinyl and digital, and each format has its own tracklist (Indie Is Not a Genre). Four songs went out ahead of it: "Everyone's The Same," "Acid Rain," "Where Are We Now" and "Time." One reviewer, at No More Workhorse, heard it less as a compilation than as a documentary, a snapshot of how the band's sound takes shape before it hardens into something finished.

A 300-cap room is about as close as you can get to both.

That idea suits a Thursday at Richmond Music Hall. The room sits beside Capital Ale House at 619 E. Main St. downtown. The restaurant says it has expanded the stage and added a new sound system, and it books local acts alongside national tours across genres. Plenty of Richmond shows like this end up in bigger rooms. This one is in a place where the back row isn't far from the amps.

What to know before going: it's an 8 p.m. start on a weeknight with three acts on the bill, so plan for a full night rather than a quick set. Parking on Main Street is free after 6 p.m., per the venue. Buy through the eTix link above. In a 300-person room, this bill doesn't leave much margin.

And seriously, earplugs. You'll still feel everything.

Sources: eTix: ADULT. x A Place to Bury Strangers w/ The Treasury, Richmond Music Hall (etix.prf.hn); JamBase: A Place to Bury Strangers at Richmond Music Hall (jambase.com); Resident Advisor: Substance 2025 - LA (de.ra.co); mxdwn: A Place to Bury Strangers announce rarities album Rare and Deadly (music.mxdwn.com); Indie Is Not a Genre: A Place To Bury Strangers open the vaults for Rare and Deadly (indieisnotagenre.com); No More Workhorse: Rare and Deadly review (nomoreworkhorse.com); Capital Ale House: Richmond Music Hall (capitalalehouse.com)