Activate!

Activate! May 12 – May 19

Mike Rutz

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)

SIMO / Shake It / Love Vol. 1 – Capital Ale House, May 18 @ 7pm

 

Dom Flemons / Til the Seas Run Dry / Prospect Hill – The Tin Pan, May 18 @ 7pm

 

Dave Nachmanoff / Sheila Won’t Be Coming Home / Step Up – 15th Anniversary Celebration / Shady grove Coffeehouse, May 14 @ 8pm

 

The Young Novelists / What Lies Ahead / Made Us Strangers – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 18 @ 8pm

 

Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials / That’s the Truth / Rattlesnake – Capital Ale House, May 19 @ 7pm (w/ Mike Lucci Band)

 

Allen Stone / Upside / Radius- The Broadberry, May 18 @ 7pm (w/ Jared & the Mill)

 

My Darling Fury / AOK / Aches – Emilio’s, May 14 @ 10pm (w/ Kenneka Cook)

 

Sugar Candy Mountain / Echopraxia – Hardywood, May 18 @ 7pm (w/ Lake of Fire, Father Sunflower and the Golden Rays)

 

Com Truise / Forgive / Silicon Tare – The National, May 14 @ 7pm (w/ STRFKR, Fake Drugs)

 

STRFKR / Fortune’s Fool / Miracle Mile

 

This City Called Earth / Pulled Apart By / Sunlight – The Camel, May 16 @ 8pm (w/ Sleave, Deer Eats Birds)

 

Graduates Rise / I Can’t Wait / Math Is Hard! – Record Release / Gallery 5, May 13 @ 7pm (w/ Dadmobile, Cream Dream)

 

Bloc Party / Helicopter / Silent Alarm – The National, May 18 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Vaccines, Oscar)

 

The Vaccines / Wreckin’ Bar / EP

 

Big No / I Don’t Like My Body Either / Ummm NaH – Jonny Z Fest / Hardywood, May 15 @ 12 Noon (w/ Bizarre Market, Manzara, Get In the Car, Julie Karr, Josh Small & Andrew Alli, Gull, My Friend Kyle)

 

Get In the Car / Eschaton / single – The Camel, May 18 @ 9pm (w/ Josie McQueen, Turbo Mansion, Solar Tantrums, No Hugs, Venus Guytrap)

 

LA Witch / Drive Your Car / 7″ – Hardywood, May 13 @ 5pm (w/ Lady God, Bummer’s Eve, The Harlequins)

 

The Harlequins / One With You / Live

 

Screaming Females / Tell Me No / Ugly – Hardywood, May 14 @ 9:30pm (w/ Aye Nako, James Badfellows, Pleasure Leftists)

 

Pleasure Leftists / For a Family / 12″

 

The Huntingtons / Joanie’s Got Problems / Get Lost – Break Even Fest / Wonderland, May 14 @ 9pm (w/ Insubordination, The Prozacs)

 

Savage Remains / Rubber Room / Resistance is Futile – Break Even Fest / The Camel, May 15 (w/ The Gospel, Clever Girl, Stiletto Bomb)

 

Qúetzal Snåkes / Brutal Beach / II – Strange Matter, May 15 @ 9pm (w/ An Invitation, Sonic Panic, Psychic Idols)

 

Sonic Panic / Dolphin Sunrise / Dog Problem

 

Useless Eaters / American cars / Bleeding Moon – Strange Matter, May 16 @ 9pm (w/ Naked Baby, Christi)

 

Kepone / Virginia Creeper / Kepone – Hardywood, May 14 @ 5pm (w/ Magnus Lush, Unmaker)

 

Unmaker / Cryosleeper / single

 

The Obsessed / Brother Blue Steel / Lunar Womb – Strange Matter, May 18 @ 7pm (w/ The Medusa, Atomic Bitchwax, Karma to Burn)

 

The Skin / Street Keyz / EP  – Bandito’s, May 15 @ 9pm (w/ Hallelujah, Among the Rocks and Roots)

 

The Brood / Sleepwalking / Defective- 25 Watt, May 14 @ 9pm (w/ Humanmania, Asylum, Relief)

 

Humanmania / It’s Gone / demo

 

Asylum / Legions / s/t – 25 Watt, May 18 @ 9pm (w/ Hellshock, Deathwish, Sadist, Vivid Sekt)

 

Hellshock / Walking Death / Only the Dead Know the End of War

 

Necrot / Scattered / The Abyss – Strange Matter, May 14 @ 9pm (w/ Skullshitter, Bastard Sapling, Left Cross)

 

Bastard Sapling / Splintering Ouroboros / Instinct is Forever

 

Skullshitter / Sacrifice of Shared Experience / Feral Laws

 

Radiator Greys / The Difference Between Cold and Wet c-17 / single – RVA Noise Presents / Gallery 5, May 15 @ 5pm (w/ Forced Into Femininity, Hannah G Thompson, DROMES, Finished, Cloning, Unguent, Filth)

 

Even more shows (by date):

Shovels and Rope – Friday Cheers / Browns Island, May 13 @ 6pm (w/ Phil Cook)

Battleghost – Canal Club, May 13 @ 6pm (w/ Underdog Champs, Count To Four, Kept At Bay, We Call This Courage)

Fractured Fairytales – Canal Club, May 13 @ 7pm (w/ Abbey Death, Knuckles and Guns, Spider Lilles, Bridges Will Burn, Schuperman, The Rain Within)

A Tribute to Prince – The Camel, May 13 @ 8pm (w/ Future Prospect, Viva La Hop)

The Big Payback: A Tribute to James Brown – The Broadberry, May 13 @ 8pm (w/ Life on Mars: A Tribute to David Bowie)

Paulo Franco & the Rateros – Legend, May 13 @ 8:30pm

DJ Williams – Cary Street Cafe, May 13 @ 10pm

Gene Watson – Henrico Theatre, May 14 & 15

Barstool Heroes – Isley Brewing, May 14 @ 2pm (w/ Jouwala Collective, the Bush League, Lord Nelson)

Pissing Contest – Strange Matter, May 14 @ 5pm (w/ Omega Boys, Time to Act)

Insane Clown Posse – The Broadberry, May 14 @ 5:30pm (w/ Young Wicked, The Real Chaos, McChicken)

Shaun Peace Band – Canal Club, May 14 @ 7pm (w/ 20/30/40, Cameron Ashton, Ben Berumez)

Bruce Katz Band – The Tin Pan, May 14 @ 7pm

2016 Rap Round Robin – 13ainbridge, May 14 @ 8pm (w/ Height Keech, P.T. Burnem, Eze Jackson, Visitor 10)

Dharma Bombs – EP Release / The Camel, May 14 @ 8pm (w/ Common Wealth, Flight of Salt, Driftwood Soldier, Saw Black)

The Vico Cycle – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 14 @ 8pm

Skum City – McCormack’s, May 14 @ 9pm (w/ Unabombers, Vomiting Dinosaurs)

Tin Can Fish Band – Cary Street Cafe, May 14 @ 10pm

VibeFrost – Postive Vibe Cafe, May 15 @ 12:30pm (w/ the Taters, Andy Vaughan and Driveline, Janet Martin, the Neatles, Smartmouth, Tin Can Fish Band, Dalton Dash)

Megosh – Canal Club, May 15 @ 5pm (w/ The Things They Carried, Brave Fire, Crowns And Convicts)

Mitchell Evan & the Mangrove – Strange Matter, May 15 @ 5pm (w/ Larusso, Danel Hart)

Halestorm – The National, May 15 @ 6:30pm (w/ Lacuna Coil, Cilver)

Sundials – Ask a punk, May 15 @ 7pm (w/ Atta Girl, Smoke Break, Jake Mayday)

The John Kadlecik Band – The Broadberry, May 15 @ 7pm

Classical Incarnations – Balliceaux, May 15 @ 8pm

Ill Nino – Canal Club, May 17 @ 6pm (w/ Bobaflex, Terror Universal, Saint Diablo, Stellar Circuits)

Ottmar Liebert – The Tin Pan, May 17 @ 7pm

Satellite Syndicate – The Camel, May 17 @ 8pm

Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 17 @ 8pm

Seldom Scene – Cultural Arts Center, May 18 @ 7pm

The Sweet Spot: Make It Rain Edition – Strange Matter, May 17 @ 9pm

Charles Owens Quartet – Balliceaux, May 18 @ 9:30pm

Whitechapel – Canal Club, May 19 @ 6pm (w/ Fit For A King, The Plot in You, Enterprise Earth, Abandon Earth)

Martin Sexton – The Tin Pan, May 19 @ 7pm

Curren$y – The National, May 19 @ 7pm

Michaela Anne – Black Iris, May 19 @ 7:30pm

Mighty Monde & Friends – The Camel, May 19 @ 8pm (w/ Out of Beardspace, Jahman Brahman)

The Neighborhood – Cary Street Cafe, May 19 @ 10pm (w/ The Slank)