ACTIVATE! 8-18-16
Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)
Ava Mendoza / Feral Twin / Unnatural Ways – Balliceaux, Aug. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Jessica Pavone, Ahleuchatistas)
Matisyahu / Silence / Light – The Broadberry, Aug. 25 @ 7pm
Clair Morgan / The Fawn / New Lions and The Not-Good Night – The Broadberry, Aug. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Big Mama Shakes, Dharma Bombs, My Darling Fury)
Hollis Brown / Completed Fool / Cluster of Pearls – Capital Ale House, Aug. 23 @ 7pm (w/ Cabin Creek)
The Marian McLaughlin Trio / Legend of the Neighborhood / Spirit House – Black Iris, Aug. 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ Wester Green)
Dave Watkins / Big Stripey Lie / Running Up That Hill – Hardywood, Aug. 19 @ 6pm (w/ Nelly Kate, Kenneka Cook, Where’s Denmark)
Brice Randall Bickford / Civilized Death / PARO – Gallery 5, Aug. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Candy Spots, California Death, Moonlight Beach Club)
California Death / There Is No illusion / EP
Honey Radar / Scorpions Bought Me Breakfast / Blank Cartoon – Steady Sounds, Aug. 19 @ 6pm
Hank & Cupcakes / Boulevard / Cheap Thrill – The Camel, Aug. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Get In the Car, Toxic Moxie, Those Manic Seas)
The Ar-Kaics / No No No / The Ar-Kaics – Hardywood, Aug. 20 @ 6pm (w/ The Low Counts, Foul Swoops)
Foul Swoops / Shot In the Dark / sgc002
The Wimps / Finale / The Wimps – The Camel, Aug. 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ Paul Willson Band, Hannah Standiford, Cole Sullivan)
Venus Guytrap / Fuck Banditos / Jello Shot demos – Balliceaux, Aug. 25 @ 9:30pm
Messer Chups / Fantomasophobia / Crazy Price – Bandito’s, Aug. 24 @ 10pm (w/ Red Hot Lava Men)
Agent Orange / Everything Turns Grey / Living in Darkness – Bandito’s, Aug. 25 @ 10pm (w/ Friends of Pinata Protest, Park Sparrows)
Stuck Lucky / Darker By Dusk / Their Them – Strange Matter, Aug. 25 @ 9pm (w/ Murphys Kids, Clever Girl)
Lazer/Wulf / Lagarto / The Beast of Left and Right – Gallery 5, Aug. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Exit the Beast, Doubtfire, Pejorative)
Stillglow / The Heretic / Wrath – Gallery 5, Aug. 25 @ 7pm (w/ Akasha)
Ssyndrom / Perception of Pain / 7″ – 25 Watt, Aug. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Nosebleed, Drugcharge)
SNAFU / Body of Suffering / Present Day Plague – 25 Watt, Aug. 23 @ 8pm (w/ 3:33, Skumboyz, Pissing Contest, Spicy Boys)
Monolord / Audhumbla / Empress Rising – The Broadberry, Aug. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Beastmaker, Sweat Lodge, Gritter)
Beastmaker / Burnt Offering / Lusus Naturae
BAT / Bloodhounds / Wings Of Chains – Record Release / Strange Matter, Aug. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Earthling, Vorater, Left Cross)
Earthling / Resent / Dark Path
Suffocation / As Grace Descends / Pinnacle of Bedlam – GWAR B4BQ / The National, Aug 19 @ 1pm (w/ Nile, After The Burial, Cannibal Corpse, Carnifex, Revocation, Krisiun, Slaughter To Prevail, Ingested)
GWAR / Eighth Lock / Beyond Hell – GWARBQ / Hadad’s Lake, Aug. 20 @ 10am (w/ Lamb of God, Against Me, American Nightmare, Eye Hate God, Lagwagon, August Burns Red, Murphy’s Law, Occultist, Brain Tentacles, Eat the Turnbuckle, Mobile Deathcamp, Sawyer Family, the Death of Rock ‘n Roll, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ramming Speed)
Against Me / Fuck My Life 666 / Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Dillinger Escape Plan / Pig Latin / Irony Is a Dead Scene
Rotting Obscene / War Storm / EP – 25 Watt, Aug. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Throne of Botis, Crucial Rip)
Discomfort / Gutted / Split with False Light – Community Room, Aug. 21 @ 7pm (w/ False Light, Charmer, Health Crash)
Merauder / Master Killer / Master Killer – Strange Matter, Aug. 20 @ 5pm (w/ Break Away, Homewrecker, Mizery, Left Behind, Purgatory)
Mars Red Sky / The Homesick Deaf / Providence – Strange Matter, Aug. 22 @ 8pm (w/ Sinister Haze)
Even more shows (by date):
Don McLean – The Tin Pan, Aug. 19 @ 7pm
Hotel X – Crossroads, Aug. 19 @ 8pm
Hank Smith and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 19 @ 8pm
Donavon Frankenreiter – The Broadberry, Aug. 19 @ 8pm (w/ Prabir Mehta)
Town Mountain – Capital Ale House, Aug. 19 @ 8pm
Rattlemouth – Garden Grove, Aug. 19 @ 8pm
Appomattax Lead Foot – Canal Club, Aug. 19 @ 8pm (w/ Mike Norris)
Kings – The Camel, Aug. 19 @ 8pm
Redlight Reggae w/ Markus Gold – Strange Matter, Aug. 19 @ 10pm
Back-to-School Block Party – The Tin Pan, Aug. 20 @ 11am-10pm (w/ Susan Greenbaum Band, The Taters, The Soul Proprieters)
One Way Ryde – Beacon Theatre, Aug. 20 @ 6:30pm
Flint Blade – Crossroads, Aug. 20 @ 8pm
Damn Tall Buildings – Capital Ale House, Aug. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Red Light Rodeo)
Tuelo – Hardywood, Aug. 21 @ 3pm (w/ Patrick Bates)
Malevolence – Canal Club, Aug. 21 @ 4:30pm (w/ Kublai Khan, Jesus Pierce, Fist ov Nails, Genosha, Alukah, The Yesterday Indifference)
Chicago Reloaded, A Tribute to Chicago – The Tin Pan, Aug. 21 @ 7pm
MovieClub Richmond presents “Alien” and “Aliens” – Strange Matter, Aug. 21 @ 7pm
Gillian Welch – Maymont, Aug. 21 @ 8pm
Kepone – GWARBQ Morning After Chill / GWAR Bar, Aug. 21 @ 11am-6pm (w/ Unmaker, Petrichor)
High Priest – GWARBQ Week-ender / Bandito’s, Aug. 21 @ 10pm (w/ Mobile Deathcamp, Deathcrown)
This Fish Needs a Bicycle – The Camel, Aug. 22 @ 6:30pm
Gallery 5 Presents: A Troma Film Series (Night 1 of 7) – Gallery 5, Aug. 22 @ 7:30pm
Mobius Strip – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Leach)
Adam Jackson – The Camel, Aug. 23 @ 8pm (w/ JostoD, Jet Lag)
Fear Nuttin Band – Canal Club, Aug. 23 @ 8pm (w/ The Canary Promise, Too Indecent, Noel Haven)
Christie Lenee – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 23 @ 8pm
Erotic Bombs – Strange Matter, Aug. 23 @ 9pm (w/ Grem Smiley, Tuck, New Ghosts)
Blues Traveler – Innsbrook Pavilion, Aug. 24 (w/ The Wallflowers, Howie Day)
Sianvar – Strange Matter, Aug. 24 @ 8pm (w/ Save Us From the Archeron, My Iron Lung, Inquiry, the Blue Sky Disaster)
Randy Johnston – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 24 @ 8pm
Vexine – The Camel, Aug. 24 @ 9pm (w/ Sally Rose Band)
The Dawn Drapes – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 24 @ 10pm
Chris Vasi Quartet – VMFA, Aug. 25 @ 6pm
Dharma Bombs – The Camel, Aug. 25 @ 8pm (w/ Saw Black, Hoot and Holler, MC Chicken)
Mikrowaves – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 25 @ 10pm