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)

The Lotus Land ShowThe Lotus Land Show – All Mixed Up

Playing Now:
Urban Dance Squad – No Kid

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Down Boy
Lemonheads – Ever
Citizen Fish – First Impressions
Joe Strummer – Dum Dum Club
Cat Power – Nude as News
Red House Painters – All Mixed Up
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Joe Blossom – Hunger II
Gardenella – Urinating n Myself
Kelly Hogan – Soft Picasso
Weezer – Only In Dreams 
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Twin Tigers – Passive Idol
Interpol – Success 

HOUR 2
(BrownCo Pick of the Week) The Black Keys – Stop Stop 
Boom Chick – When I Don't Love My Rock and Roll 
Sixteen Horsepower – My Narrow Mind
Ken Nordine – Down the Drain
Hanne Hukkelberg – The Pirate 
Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin 
PJ Harvey – Hair
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Yello – Nervous
Shiina Ringo – Kuki (STEM)
AP3S – God Morgon 
TRS-80 – 100 Miles Per Hour 
Health – Die Slow 
Urban Dance Squad – No Kid

The Rainbow MinuteThe Rainbow Minute

Thursday, February 23 – "Captain Stephen Hill Takes Action" – Virginia State Delegate, Joe Morrissey

The Rainbow MinuteThe Rainbow Minute

The Rainbow MinuteThe Rainbow Minute

Wednesday, February 22 – "Booed Soldier Brings Response From Obama" – Virginia State Delegate, Joe Morrissey

       At a Republican debate on September 22, 2011, Captain Stephen Hill, a soldier serving in Iraq, asked the candidates their position on gays in the military. He was loudly booed by some people in the audience.  Surprisingly, not one Republican presidential candidate reacted to the shocking display or thanked Hill for his service.

         The event was viewed frequently all over the blogosphere, while political commentators jawed about it for days.  At the annual Human Rights Campaign Dinner, President Barack Obama referred to the rude display, saying, “We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders – one of whom could end up being the president of the United States – being silent when an American soldier is booed.  We don’t believe in that.”

More about Captain Hill tomorrow.

Wednesday Morning Breakfast Blend

 a musical tour of the mysterious island of south america

a musical tour of the mysterious island of south america after we have our coffee

premire!!!!!

Dog Germsdog germs 2/22/12 head trip conception/data_recovery edition

thanks to head trip conception and data_recovery for coming up on the show tonight and hanging out, talking, and playing some tunes with us.  both of those bands are playing tomorrow night at fallout with low on sanity and industrial grade acid!  it promises to be an amazing show!

also tonight we heard new music from eisbrecher, toxic coma, and everything goes cold!

upcoming shows:

head trip conception, industrial grade acid, low on sanity, and data_recovery, wednesday, february 22nd @ fallout, richmond, va
jane's addiction and black box revelation, friday, march 9th @ the national, richmond, va

click "read more" to see the playlist!

miss the show and interview?  well hear it via the podcast!

thanks for listening, have a great week if i don't see you at the show tomorrow night!

POP Goes The World!POP Goes The Fishing Astronauts (podcast available!)

Very psyched to have my good friend, Philadelphia singer songwriter, Chris Kasper, in the studio with me tonight!

Chris will play some songs live in the studio off his latest cd which is pictured above and some songs off his earlier 2 cds as well.

You can find out more about Chris and his cds here.

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LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE!!!

The Lee ShowThe Lee Show celebrates songwriters Joe Allison and Carl Belew!

Joe Allison

Carl Belew