Activate! presents:

Thank you to the listeners who donated to our Fund Drive! It’s not too late, that red donate button is still at the top right of our homepage if you would like to contribute to your local radio station. At 5pm, I’ll offer you some incentives, including ticket giveaways for the RVA All Day Block Party with No BS, Thorp Jenson (pictured), and People’s Blues of Richmond among many other local bands, as well as Skinny Lister at The Camel and Listener/Hawthorne Heights at Capital Ale House. Click here for the podcast: wrir.org/listen/

Playlist:

    Time: April 26 - 1:01:00 pm
  • Paul Metzger, “II”

    from Uses of Infinity

    Black Iris, April 28 @ 7:30pm (w/ John Saint Melvyn)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:05:00 pm
  • Andrew Collins Trio, “Goodbye Blue Sky”

    from Tongue & Groove

    The Tin Pan, May 2 @ 7pm

  • Time: April 26 - 1:07:00 pm
  • The California Honeydrops, “Hold It Down”

    from Call it Home Vol. 1 & 2

    Tubtone - 2018

    Capital Ale House, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Charlie Hunter)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:11:00 pm
  • Chicano Batman, “Friendship (is a Small Boat in a Storm)”

    from Freedom Is Free

    ATO Records - 2017

    Capital Ale House, May 3 @ 7pm

  • Time: April 26 - 1:14:00 pm
  • Kings, “Singlemanhours”

    from Kings

    Jellowstone - 2015

    Bandito's, April 29 @ 10pm (w/ RVA Entertainers Club)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:19:00 pm
  • Thorp Jenson, “Lonely”

    from Odessa

    South Boulevard - 2017

    RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ No BS! Brass Band, People's Blues Of Richmond, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ G

  • Time: April 26 - 1:23:00 pm
  • No BS! Brass Band, “Nailbiter”

    from Brass Knuckles

    self-released - 2015

    RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ People's Blues of Richmond, Thorp Jenson, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ Ghozt)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:26:00 pm
  • People's Blues Of Richmond, “Quit or Die”

    from Quit Or Die

    Circus Rock Records - 2016

    RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ No BS! Brass Band, Thorp Jenson, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ Ghozt)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:28:00 pm
  • John Morand, “Cut From the Same Cloth”

    from Scott's Addiction

    Sound of Music - 2018

    Album Release at Sound of Music, April 27 (w/ Lauren Marsh, Sparky Quano)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:34:00 pm
  • Coma Cinema, “Running Wide Open”

    from Loss Memory

    Marigold Group - 2017

    Strange Matter, May 1 @ 8pm (w/ Erik Phillips, Normal State)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:37:00 pm
  • Son Step, “Pink Knit”

    from Mai Lai Wah

    Little Saint, April 27 @ 10:30pm (w/ Shormey, Gardener)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:40:00 pm
  • Couch Jackets, “Foo Choo Mama”

    from Sayonara Oblongata

    self-released - 2017

    Garden Grove, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Stacked Like Pancakes, Flight Club, Kept Alive)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:45:00 pm
  • Listener, “A Song From A Knife Salesman To His Wife On Their Wedding Day”

    from Return To Struggleville

    Listener - 2009

    Capital Ale House, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Hawthorne Heights, Hotel Books, Sienna Skies, Heavy Things)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:48:00 pm
  • Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers, “So Small and So Loud”

    from Apophenian

    self-released - 2018

    Flora, April 27 (w/ Glass Twin, Mon Chere)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:52:00 pm
  • The Head, “I Wanna Be Loved”

    from Space

    Missing Piece - 2017

    Hardywood, April 27 @ 6pm (w/ Minor Poet, Chris Leggett)

  • Time: April 26 - 1:56:00 pm
  • Rock Eupora, “I Wanna Be Alone”

    from Soon the Sun Will Come

    The Camel, April 30 @ 8pm (w/ Black Plastic, Deer Eat Birds)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:00:00 pm
  • Skinny Lister, “Geordie Lad”

    from The Devil, the Heart & the Fight

    Xtra Mile - 2016

    The Camel, April 28 @ 7pm (w/ Beans on Toast, Deau Eyes, Righter)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:04:00 pm
  • Basement, “Lose Your Grip”

    from Promise Everything

    Run for Cover - 2016

    Canal Club, May 3 @ 6pm (w/ Pronoun, Souvenirs, The Grim Gang)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:06:00 pm
  • Sinai Vessel, “Ramekin”

    from Brokenlegged

    Tiny Engines - 2017

    Little Saint, May 3 @ 10:30pm (w/ Padfoot, Doll Baby)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:09:00 pm
  • Alvvays, “Your Type”

    from Antisocialites

    Polyvinyl - 2017

    The Broadberry, May 3 @ 7pm (w/ Frankie Rose)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:13:00 pm
  • The Wheal, “Body”

    from The Wheal

    Exhibition - 2016

    Little Saint, April 29 @ 10:30pm (w/ The Hunting Dog, Cellsaga)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:18:00 pm
  • Technophobia, “Passing People”

    from Negative Space

    Goth Showcase Vol. 2 at Fallout, April 28 @ 9pm (w/ Heretics In the Lab, This Hollow Machine)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:20:00 pm
  • Charly Bliss, “Turd”

    from Turd - Single

    self-released - 2016

    The Camel, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Skating Polly)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:24:00 pm
  • Stuyedeyed, “Cursed”

    from Funeral

    Greenway - 2017

    The Camel, May 1 @ 8pm (w/ Railgun, Grem Smiley, Deli Kings)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:29:00 pm
  • Wastelands, “Abject”

    from Wastelands

    Flora, April 29 @ 8pm (w/ Grandma, Lil (Big) No, Giggly Boys)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:31:00 pm
  • Giggly Boys, “Black Sheet Party”

    from Tap Tap Tap on a Fragile Bowl - EP

    This Ain't Heaven Recording Concern - 2018

    Ask a punk, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Nightbreature, Fat Spirit) and Flora, April 29 @ 8pm (w/ Grandma, Lil (Big) No, Wastelands)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:34:00 pm
  • Deathbirds Surf Club, “The Ripper”

    from Transmission of Stoke

    Crystal Pistol - 2016

    Skate and Destroy Night: Blood and Steel Screening at Hardywood, April 28 @ 6pm (w/ Haircut)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:36:00 pm
  • Ruby the Hatchet, “Killer”

    from Planetary Space Child

    Tee Pee Records - 2017

    Champion, May 3 @ 6pm (w/ Desert Altar, Heavy Temple)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:41:00 pm
  • Ganser, “Avoidance”

    from Odd Talk

    Flora, May 3 @ 9pm (w/ Shadow Age, Order)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:44:00 pm
  • Axattack, “Axattack”

    from Axattack

    McCormack’s, April 27 @ 8pm (w/ Lion’s Den, Lord, Optimus Prime, FLood the Asylum)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:47:00 pm
  • Digest, “Smokescreen”

    from demo

    Ask a punk, May 2 @ 7:30pm (w/ Samarra, Infant Island)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:49:00 pm
  • Cannabis Corpse, “Grass Obliteration”

    from Left Hand Pass

    Season of Mist - 2017

    Strange Matter, April 28 @ 8pm (w/ Perpetuated, Eldritch Horror, Salvaticus)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:52:00 pm
  • Cough, “Crippled Wizard”

    from Ritual Abuse

    Relapse - 2010

    Strange Matter, May 2 @ 8pm (w/ Eldritch, Fistula, Come to Grief)

  • Time: April 26 - 2:57:00 pm
  • Black Liquid, “Fck”

    from F*ck - Single

    self-released - 2018

    Face Melt Friday at Strange Matter, April 27 @ 8pm (w/ aarnxbrwn, Bing Hey Boys, Cha$e Royale, Chris Haskins, Emphasys, Frankenstein, Goad Gatsby, Kellz, King Rich, Lithium God, Neighborhoodmink, Noah Page, Phill B, VA's General, Zayd The Sage)

    Activate!    April 26th, 2018

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