Activate!Activate! February 22 – February 29

Tonight at 7pm, I've got ticket giveaways, concert announcements, and good tuneage. First off, Don Harrison of Style Weekly and WRIR's own Mikemetic will join me in the studio to talk about the upcoming Shadrock Music Festival on April 28th, including the first band announcement and a chance to win tickets before they go on sale. Also, I have tickets to give away to the Black Girls (pictured) Record Release show.  And of course tunes from bands playing live in RVA!

Click on "read more" for the show listings / playlist. Click here for the podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/57951

Activate! 2/22/12

Dopapod / Roid Rage / diy – Canal Club, Feb. 28 @ 9pm (w/ J3 Project)

Blue Sky Black Death / Swords From Driftwood / Fake Four – Canal Club, Feb. 29 @ 8pm

Binary Bits / The Countess / Altered Ego – The Camel, Feb. 23 @ 8pm (w/ FLOTE, EFBMF)

FLOTE / Paths / Altered Ego

Dave Watkins / When Noone Else is Here and Everyone is Asleep / diy – Balliceaux, Feb. 29 @ 10pm (w/ Wes Swing, Robin Bacior)

Boas / Acre / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 27 @ 9pm (w/ Scuo Duo, Antlers)

Antlers / Black Walnut / Rorschach

Lilith / Sleepless / diy – Ask a punk, Feb. 24 @ 8pm (w/ Jake Mayday, Small Steps)

Joe Overton and Clear Blue Sky / Tallest Tree / diy – Twangtown Thursdays / Balliceaux, Feb. 23 @ 10pm

The Parlor Soldiers / When the Dust Settles / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 29 @ 9pm (w/ Mermaids I Mean Whales, The Moonbees, Wetlands)

Wetlands / Tugboat / diy

Paulo Franco & The Rateros / Kiss Goodnight / diy – CD release / Capital Ale House, Feb. 25 @ 6pm (w/ The Atkinsons)

Black Girls / Broadway / Worthless Junk – Record Release / Kingdom, Feb. 24 @ 9pm (w/ No BS Brass Band, The Trillions, White Laces)

White Laces / Hands in Mexico / Harding Street Assembly Lab – Ask a punk, Feb. 24 (w/ Eternal Summers, Peace Beast, Navi)

Eternal Summers / Prisoner / Kanine

Hot Dolphin / Jail Fire Baby / diy – Cous Cous, Feb. 23 @ 10pm (w/ The Blue Rajas)

Punch Button / California / diy – Current, Feb. 24 @ 7pm (w/ the Absent Center, Ear Theory, From Fragile Seeds)

The Gaskets / High Five Club / Aquarium – "Love Me When I Am Gone: A Tribute to Ross Harman" Record Release Party / Strange Matter, feb. 25 @ 9pm (w/ Novios, Schnitzel, Shannon Cleary, Teddy Blanks)

Photosynthesizers / Telepathy / diy – Shadrock Music Festival / Brown's Island, April 28

De La Soul / A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays / Tommy Boy – Shadrock Music Festival / Brown's Island, April 28

Dead Fame / Turning / diy – EP Release / Balliceaux, Feb. 25 @ 10:30pm (w/ Beard DJs)

The Cryptkeeper 5 / For You / diy – Wonderland, Feb. 23 @ 10pm

The Fighting Jamesons / One More Drink / diy – The National, Feb, 24 @ 7pm (w/ Roadkill Roy, Jackass Flats)

Solace Sovay / Magicfly City / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 26 @ 5pm (w/ Night Idea, Young Adult Fiction, Hidden Signals, Dane Ferguson, Close Talker)

Close Talker / Eaten Alive / diy

Lost Tribe / Gunk / Blind Prophet – Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project / The Nile, Feb. 23 @ 9pm (w/ Ratmeat, Soma, Mutwawa)

Trust Fall / Bitter at Best / diy – Ask a punk, Feb. 25 @ 8pm (w/ Brick Mower, Wake)

Brick Mower / Slow Too Fast / Viking on Campus

Deicide / Dead By Dawn / Roadrunner – Kingdom, Feb. 29 @ 6pm (w/ Iron Reagan, Art of Destruction, Spiral Fracture)

Iron Reagan / Paycheck / diy

Numbernin6 / Beneath the Boards / diy – Canal Club, Feb. 24 @ 8pm (w/ Mike Phear, Kin Gator, PsyMatix)

Near Earth Objects – Crossroads, Feb. 23 @ 8pm

The Jim Ivins Band – CD Release / Canal Club, Feb. 25 @ 6:30pm (w/ Juniper Green, Billy the Kid & the Southside Boys)

The Lonely Teardrops – Bandito's, Feb. 26 @ 7pm (w/ Big Bobby & the Nightcaps)