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Activate! is a concert calendar for your ears. Do you want to go to a show? Every week, I preview the next 7 days on Richmond’s live music calendar. Every band you hear on Activate! is playing in the River City sometime that week and you’ll get info as to when and where the show is happening.
The Richmond music scene is one of the best in the world. In order for it to maintain and grow, we need people like you to go to live shows. That includes supporting both local and touring bands. Every night of the week, you can catch a spectrum of live bands playing music that you want to hear. But, it’s not easy for musicians OR venues. So, tune in to Activate! every Thursday from 5 to 7pm, hear a band that sparks your interest, and go to the show!
Schedule
- Thursday - 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Past Shows
- June 2, 2022 -
Activate! June 2 – June 24: Last show ever! -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - May 26, 2022 -
Activate! May 26 – June 2: Next to last Activate! ever -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - May 19, 2022 -
Activate! May 19 – May 26 w/ Tiny DJ and Julie Karr -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - May 12, 2022 -
Activate! May 12-May 19 -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - May 5, 2022 -
Activate! May 5 – May 12 -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - April 28, 2022 -
Activate! April 28 – May 5 -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - April 21, 2022 - Activate! April 21 – 28: Fund Drive Edition - playlist
- April 15, 2022 - Activate! Jay Smack in for Mike - playlist
- April 7, 2022 -
Activate! April 7 – April 14 -
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Play show / Add show to playlist - March 31, 2022 -
Activate! March 31 – April 7 -
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Play show / Add show to playlist
In-Studio Performances
- July 26, 2018 - Stephanie Powers
- Be Brave Little One - Play / Add to playlist
- Making New Friends - Play / Add to playlist
- 03 - Play / Add to playlist
- Beachhouse Blues - Play / Add to playlist
- It's a Good Thing We Didn't Have Kids - Play / Add to playlist
- 06 - Play / Add to playlist
- 07 - Play / Add to playlist
- July 12, 2018 - Manatree
- Too Close to the Fire - Play / Add to playlist
- Fragments - Play / Add to playlist
- On and On - Play / Add to playlist
- Dark Room - Play / Add to playlist
- Backwards - Play / Add to playlist
- The Words - Play / Add to playlist
- July 5, 2018 - Dumbwaiter
- Dagnabbit - Play / Add to playlist
- Hamburgled - Play / Add to playlist
- Darn - Play / Add to playlist
- May 31, 2018 - Assemble
- Hold You Up - Play / Add to playlist
- Prisoner - Play / Add to playlist
- Fear - Play / Add to playlist
- Can't Replace - Play / Add to playlist
- Everything - Play / Add to playlist
- Pen and Paper - Play / Add to playlist
- April 19, 2018 - Gif from God
- No Dude, He Like to Spray - Play / Add to playlist
- Why I died Wide Eyed - Play / Add to playlist
- Clicky Clicky - Play / Add to playlist
- Circus? - Play / Add to playlist
- Sassafrass Molassessass - Play / Add to playlist
- October 19, 2017 - Serqet
- Kali Ma - Play / Add to playlist
- Edge of the Plain - Play / Add to playlist
- Oleander - Play / Add to playlist
- Lullaby - Play / Add to playlist
- Garden of Babd - Play / Add to playlist
- February 23, 2017 - Winstons
- Without You - Play / Add to playlist
- Enough - Play / Add to playlist
- Mules - Play / Add to playlist
- Goddamn Goodbye - Play / Add to playlist
- October 20, 2016 - Julie Karr
- RCR - Play / Add to playlist
- Bleed - Play / Add to playlist
- What I do is secret - Play / Add to playlist
- Francis - Play / Add to playlist
- Sympathy Card - Play / Add to playlist
- April 21, 2016 - Glass Twin
- Junkies - Play / Add to playlist
- The Hypnotist - Play / Add to playlist
- Seed the Sky - Play / Add to playlist
- October 22, 2015 - Asylum
- Rot - Play / Add to playlist
- Neanderthal - Play / Add to playlist
- Dumb - Play / Add to playlist
- Led to the Slaughter - Play / Add to playlist
- Boo's Song - Play / Add to playlist
- Shallow Breath - Play / Add to playlist
- August 20, 2015 - Wow Owls
- 1989 - Play / Add to playlist
- Chris - Play / Add to playlist
- Racoon City - Play / Add to playlist
- Scary Barry - Play / Add to playlist
- June 18, 2015 - Lightfields
- The What - Play / Add to playlist
- Nude - Play / Add to playlist
- Melodies - Play / Add to playlist
- June 11, 2015 - Faceship
- Chorus Fairies - Play / Add to playlist
- Tomahawk - Play / Add to playlist
- Coji Condo - Play / Add to playlist
- Ethyl Bland - Play / Add to playlist
- April 16, 2015 - Queer Rocket
- 01 - Play / Add to playlist
- 02 - Play / Add to playlist
- 03 - Play / Add to playlist
- 04 - Play / Add to playlist
- WRIR Glad That You Are Here - Play / Add to playlist
- 06 - Play / Add to playlist
- 07 - Play / Add to playlist
- 08 - Play / Add to playlist
- October 22, 2014 - Red Money
- Virginia Is For Lovers - Play / Add to playlist
- Baby Comes Alive - Play / Add to playlist
- Comparable Crimes - Play / Add to playlist
- And You See Dollar Signs - Play / Add to playlist
- Cronenberg - Play / Add to playlist
- Die By Asteroid - Play / Add to playlist
- Die By Asteroid (Soundcheck Version) - Play / Add to playlist
- September 17, 2014 - Cagey Watts
- Love Sad - Play / Add to playlist
- Boo Boo Bear - Play / Add to playlist
- September 17, 2014 - The Cales
- Racism - Play / Add to playlist
- 02 - Play / Add to playlist
- Sweetly - Play / Add to playlist
- Paper Tigers - Play / Add to playlist
- June 25, 2014 - Avers
- White Horses - Play / Add to playlist
- The Only One - Play / Add to playlist
- Morning Light - Play / Add to playlist
- Evil - Play / Add to playlist
- May 21, 2014 - PAWS
- Tongues - Play / Add to playlist
- Give Up - Play / Add to playlist
- An Honest Romance - Play / Add to playlist
- Owls Talons Clenching My Heart - Play / Add to playlist
- Erruer Humane - Play / Add to playlist
- Get Bent - Play / Add to playlist
- Someone New - Play / Add to playlist
- War Cry - Play / Add to playlist
- March 19, 2014 - Gull
- Improvised - Play / Add to playlist
- Literally Blank - Play / Add to playlist
- Fast Enough - Play / Add to playlist
- To Dust - Play / Add to playlist
- Earmine - Play / Add to playlist
- January 27, 2014 - Classical Revolution RVA
- Mozert K. 389 Movement 4 - Play / Add to playlist
- Mozert K. 421 Movement 1 - Play / Add to playlist
- Mozert K 421 Movement 3 - Play / Add to playlist
- October 23, 2013 - Those Manic Seas
- 01 - Play / Add to playlist
- 02 - Play / Add to playlist
- 03 - Play / Add to playlist
- 04 - Play / Add to playlist
- May 15, 2013 - DJ Vadim
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- May 15, 2013 - Deke Dickerson
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- May 15, 2013 - Pokey LaFarge
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- May 8, 2013 - The Numerators
- Kirk - Play / Add to playlist
- Finally Sees - Play / Add to playlist
- Bill Blue Cosby - Play / Add to playlist
- January 29, 2013 - M-Law and the Prophets of Jazz
- Fall In Love - Play / Add to playlist
- Feel like Loving You, Today - Play / Add to playlist
- Moving Suite: Choices - Play / Add to playlist
- Moving Suite: Notice (to Vacate) - Play / Add to playlist
- Moving Suite: Right (and Wrong) - Play / Add to playlist
- We Live in Brooklyn, Baby / Don't Stop The Feeling - Play / Add to playlist
- November 14, 2012 - Prabir
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- November 14, 2012 - Sundials
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- August 10, 2012 - Cut the Architect's Hand
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- June 13, 2012 - Chappo
- 01 - Play / Add to playlist
- 02 - Play / Add to playlist
- 03 - Play / Add to playlist
- April 18, 2012 - Malhombre
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 14, 2012 - Janet Martin
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 7, 2012 - Nelly Kate
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 7, 2012 - White Laces
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- February 16, 2012 - World Inferno Friendship Society
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 17, 2011 - Proverbial
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- September 24, 2011 - Black Box Revelation
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- August 18, 2011 - Screaming Females
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- June 23, 2011 - The Atkinsons
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 30, 2011 - BJ Kocen
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- January 17, 2011 - Jonathan Vassar
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 1, 2010 - Zedashe
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- November 3, 2010 - MicroJoy
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- October 30, 2010 - Misfits Cover Band
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- September 16, 2010 - The Diamond Center
- 20 Twin - Play / Add to playlist
- Bones - Play / Add to playlist
- Bombay Beach - Play / Add to playlist
- Caraway - Play / Add to playlist
- July 7, 2010 - Julie Karr
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- June 6, 2010 - Ben Jordan
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- June 2, 2010 - Horsehead
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- April 28, 2010 - Horsehead
- 01 - Play / Add to playlist
- 02 - Play / Add to playlist
- 03 - Play / Add to playlist
- March 11, 2010 - The Moonbees
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 16, 2009 - Danny O
- LIve on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 16, 2009 - Monotronix
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 16, 2009 - The Animal Beat
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- July 15, 2009 - Orioles
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- July 15, 2009 - Pedals on Our Pirate Ships
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- July 15, 2009 - Isaac Ramsey
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- July 15, 2009 - Liza Kate
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 11, 2009 - Richmond Engine #3
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 11, 2009 - Zack Hyrciak and the Jungle Beat
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- March 4, 2009 - Jamie McLean
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 20, 2008 - Murphy's Kids
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- December 3, 2008 - Ki Theory
- Live on WRIR - Play / Add to playlist
- October 30, 2008 - Mark Lewis
- Activate - Play / Add to playlist
- March 1, 2000 - Nick Coward & The Last Battle
- Impatient Hearts - Play / Add to playlist