ACTIVATE! 4-21-16
Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)
The New Mastersounds / Let’s Do Another / Made for Pleasure – The Broadberry, April 26 @ 8pm (w/ Moon Hooch)
Yeni Nostalji / Hem Bal Hem Acı / EP – Balliceaux, April 25 @ 8pm (w/ Gary Kalar)
Jeremy White & the Blue Hearts / To the Nines / Classic American Sins – Fundraiser show to send Stephen back to Tanzania / The Camel, April 24 @ 4pm (w/ The Whiskey Wells, The Very First Man); Songwriter Night / The Camel, April 24 @ 8:30pm (w/ MyWay, Michelle Todd, David Haught, Cam Girard)
Reverand Peyton’s Big Damn Band / Shut the Screen / Between the Ditches – Capital Ale House April 23 @ 8pm (w/ Barstool heroes)
Laura Stevenson / Runner / Wheel – Strange Matter, April 28 @ 9pm (w/ Crying, Chris Farren)
Gemtone / Lo / Thru False Walls – RVA Noise Fest / Gallery 5, April 24 @ 5pm (w/ Astrology Diet, ATTR, Geordi La Korg, Ting Ting Jahae, Thumper, Raw Mom, Rivavera, Pataphonic, Cecelia, Toner War, The New Loft, Aztiraks, Elian, Anduin, ENE, Airport)
The Hoodoos / Metaphase #1 / single – The Camel, April 25 @ 8pm (w/ Silent Psychic, Bad Name For a School, The Smirks)
Manatree / Fat Jackson / Manatree – Capital Ale House, April 22 @ 8pm (w/ Big Mama Shakes, These Wild Plains)
Peace Beast / Big Sky / Tough Cloud – Hardywood, April 23 @ 5pm (w/ Boogarins, Bad Magic, Blanks)
Boogarins / 6000 Dias / Manual
Best Behavior / Buried On a Mountain / Good Luck Bad Karma – Strange Matter, April 27 @ 8pm (w/ Selma Hijack, Headlessmantis, Bare Thoughts)
The Ar-Kaics / No No No / The Ar-Kaics – Balliceaux, April 23 @ 10pm (w/ Tough Shits, Paint Fumes, Wahyas)
Paint Fumes / Space Cadet / Uck Life
Wailin Storms / Ribcage Fireplace / One Foot In the Flesh Grave – Bandito’s, April 24 @ 9pm (w/ Manzara, Magnus Lush)
Bear Girl / Occurrence II-Out of the Chasm / Le Fantastique – Canal Club, April 26 2 7pm (w/ FS, The Concussion Theory, Decide By Friday, Last Night’s Ghost)
True Widow / Skull Eyes / As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth – Hardywood, April 23 @ 9pm (w/ Sinister Haze, Slimy Member)
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads / In Bookings / Stay Home – 25 Watt, April 28 @ 9pm (w/ Cloak Dagger, Nosebleed, Memory Loss)
Cloak/Dagger / Runways / We Are
Butcher / Dawn Breaks / Holding Back the Night – Strange Matter, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ Firing Squad, Mad Existence, Night Shank, Tetsu Arrey)
Intercourse / Birth of a Neighborhood / Intercourse – Gallery 5, April 22 @ 7:30pm (w/ Aneurysm, Suppression, Among the Rocks and Roots)
Narrow Grave / OTD / Under the Earth – 25 Watt, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ Hellcanon, Sadistic Ritual, Black Mass, Weird Wolf, Rotten)
Glass Twin LIVE ON WRIR – Wonderland, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ Benjamin Shepherd, Various Eggs)
Even more shows (by date):
Karla Bonoff – The Tin Pan, April 22 @ 7pm
Hardworker – Triple Crossing, April 22 @ 7:30pm
Jackass Flats – The Camel, April 22 @ 8pm (w/ Woody Woodworth, James Justin & Co.)
Camela Widad – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 22 @ 8pm
Fear of Music, a Talking Heads Tribute – The Broadberry, April 22 @ 8pm
Mobb Deep – The National, April 22 @ 8pm (w/ Smif-n-Wessun)
Solid Gold Fish Bowl – Cary Street Cafe, April 22 @ 10pm
Non-Stop K-Pop w/ DJ Carlito – Balliceaux, April 22 @ 10:30pm
AlterNatives Bluegrass and Brews – 3320 West Cary Street, April 23 @ 11am-11pm (w/ Tin Can Fish Band, Stu Kindle, The Atkinsons, Western Ave, Redleg Husky, Clay Spokes, Hound Dog Hill)
Zombie X – Wonderland, April 23
RVA Noise Fest – Strange Matter, April 23 @ 2pm (w/ BSK, Muzak City, France Gall Entity, Hash Cult, Schwarzkali Effect, Grey Wulf, Surfacing, Lacanthrope, Negative Space, Maask, Black Hand Path, Lebron, Chart Junk, JND, Thieves Of Shiloh, 10-56, Blue Nine, Fake Object, Neurology, Brown Piss, Conflation, Yoga Demon, Bermuda Triangles, Flesh Control, Crack Bytch, MC Nasdaq, False Prphts, SB & C, Predation, Broadcastatic, Creeping, Subklinik, Dyrt, Coteries, Yohimbe, Stone Garden Jam Temple, Disc Image, Mutwawa, Hash Cult)
Roger McGuinn (of The Byrds) – Beacon Theatre, April 23 @ 6:30pm
Marc Cohn – The Tin Pan, April 23 @ 7pm
Veery – Ask around, April 23 @ 7:30pm (w/ Ultra Flake, Dadmobile)
Out of Time, A Tribute to the Kingston Trio – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 23 @ 8pm
Redleg Husky – CD release / Garden Grove, April 23 @ 8pm
The Deems – The Camel, April 23 @ 8pm (w/ The Ends, Kung Pao Quartet)
Appetite for Destruction, A Tribute to Guns ‘n Roses – The National, April 23 @ 8pm (w/ Shoot to Thrill)
Wrvth – 25 Watt, April 23 @ 8pm (w/ Abandon Earth, Worldwaker)
Turbo Suit – The Broadberry, April 23 @ 8pm (w/ Phil Dice, Agent)
The Ultra Kings – Poe’s Pub, April 23 @ 9pm
Solid Gold Fish Bowl – Cary Street Cafe, April 23 @ 10pm
Patrick Bates – Strange Matter, April 24 @ 7pm (w/ Saw Black, The Wimps, Hill Walkers)
Jadakiss – The National, April 24 @ 8pm
Classical Incarnations – Balliceaux, April 24 @ 8pm
New Ghosts – Strange Matter, April 25 @ 9pm (w/ Don Babylon, Partition, The Smirks, 3 Legged Dog)
Soluh – The Camel, April 26 @ 9pm (w/ Tennison, Soluh, Dr. Millionaire)
Brunswick – Balliceaux, April 26 @ 9:30pm
The Spill Canvas – The Broadberry, April 27 @ 6pm (w/ Brighter the Moon, The Jolts, My Heart My Anchor)
The Mersey Beatles – Beacon Theatre, April 27 @ 6:30pm
Elizabeth Cook – Capital Ale House, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Derek Hoke)
Charles Owens Quartet – Balliceaux, April 27 @ 9:30pm
Red Light Rodeo – Cary Street Cafe, April 27 @ 10pm
Screaming for Silence – Canal Club, April 28 @ 6pm (w/ Poynte, Hostile Within, Guns Out at Sundown, Burn the Ballroom)
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder – Beacon Theatre, April 28 @ 6pm
My Son the Doctor – Stir Crazy, April 28 @ 7:30pm
Bring Your Own Beats w/ Black Liquid – The Camel, April 28 @ 8pm
Blue Healer – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 28 @ 8pm
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds – The Broadberry, April 28 @ 8pm (w/ Major & the Monbacks)
Alison Self & the Lonesome Lows – Balliceaux, April 28 @ 9:30pm
Mikrowaves – Cary Street Cafe, April 28 @ 10pm