Activate!

Activate! April 7 – April 14

Mike Rutz

ACTIVATE! 4-7-16

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

SwampTrees / Perspective / SwampTrees – All the Saints Theater Company presents: A Spaghetti Dinner with Bread and Puppet Theater / Gallery 5, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Lobo Marino, Josh Bearman & Friends)

Tim Barry / Will Travel / 28th & Stonewall – The Camel, April 9 @ 7pm (w/ Red Clay River, Josh Small and Bobby Joe Small)

Red Light Rodeo / Aces & Eights / Nothing But the Nuts – Bluegrass & Country Western Jamboree / The Camel, April 10 @ 3pm (w/ Tarrant Trio, South Hill Banks, Comaboo, Stooly Dan)

Diane Cluck / Heartloose / Boneset – Stady Sounds, April 10 @ 3pm (w/ Josh Rosenthal book reading, Mark Fosson)

Patrick Bates / In the End / Feathers and Pearls – The Broadberry, April 9 @ 8pm (w/ Full Moon Fever: A Tom Petty Tribute Band)

Rhiannon Giddens (of Carolina Chocolate Drops) / She’s Got You / Tomorrow Is My Turn – The National, April 13 @ 7:30pm

Beruit / Santa Fe / The Rip Tide – The National, April 11 @ 7:30pm

Unix / Stupid Noise ft. Rob Milton / EP – EP Release / Canal Club, April 9 @ 8pm (w/ Future Prospect, Alicia M)

David Wax Museum / Young Man / Guesthouse – The Camel, April 12 @ 7:30pm (w/ Darlingside, Haroula Rose)

Marc Ribot / Lies My Body Told Me / Your Turn – Performing the soundtrack to silent film “Shadows Choose Their Horrors” / Grace Street Theatre, April 8 @ 8:30pm

Cream Dream / Free At Last / Cream Dream – Strange Matter, April 11 @ 9pm (w/ Head to Wall, Wood Face, Deer Eat Birds)

Hovvdy / Problem / Taster – Strange Matter, April 12 @ 8pm (w/ Headlessmantis, Cat Be Damned, Ghosts)

Go Cozy / Biera / Bruises – Strange Matter, April 10 @ 5pm (w/ California Death, Collin Thibodeauxx, Bulldog Eyes)

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die / Haircuts for Everybody / Harmlessness – The Broadberry, April 13 @ 6pm (w/ Into It Over It, The Sidekicks, Pinegrove)

Gauche / Cycles / Get Away with Gauche – Gallery 5, April 9 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Gray Company, Basement Club, Dazeases, Murabess)

Moving Panoramas / One / One – Strange Matter, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ Dadmobile, Las Pinas, Doll Baby)

Las Pinas / Panteras / Espanto Caribe

Grass Panther / Over the Underground / Vignette – CD Release / Hardywood, April 9 @ 5pm (w/ Samantha Pearl, Wilder Maker, Red Money)

Red Money / And You See Dollar Signs / single

Listener / Death By Shotgun / Return to Struggleville – Canal Club, April 8 @ 6pm (w/ ’68, Being As an Ocean, Capsize, Minds Like Mirrors, Movements)

’68 / Track One / In Humor And Sadness

Justin Symbol / Control ft. Daisy Berkowitz / Voidhead – Fallout, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Retrogramme, Graveside Breakfast, Generation Empty)

La Urss / Ataúdes de plástico / Maravillas del mundo – 25 Watt, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ Christi, Omego Boys)

Christi / Cry / 7″

Pears / Breakfast / Go To Prison – Wonderland, April 12 @ 9pm (w/ Park Sparrows, Such Gold)

Such Gold / Axed Away / The New Sidewalk

Tau Cross / Stonecracker / Tau Cross – Strange Matter, April 8 @ 8pm (w/ Ilsa, Occultist)

Bardus / Monolith / Stella Porta – Wonderland, April 8 @ 9pm (w/ Glorious Rebellion, Gritter)

Gritter / Black Teeth / Welcome to the Sinkhole – Bandito’s, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ US Bastards, Mistaker)

Graves At Sea / This Mental Sentence / The Curse That Is – Strange Matter, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Order of the Owl, Druglord, Night Magic)

Dispellment / Old Man Winter / Atone – 25 Watt, April 13 @ 8pm (w/ Krigsgrav, Giant of the Mountain, Bearstorm, Aokigahara)

Lugweight / Stringer / Stringer – Gallery 5, April 8 @ 8pm (w/ Kaontrol Kontraos, The Sweet Sounds of Chaos, Fake/Brown Piss)

 

Even more shows:

Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin – Capital Ale House, April 8

Pete Curry – Hardywood, April 8 @ 5pm (w/ Benjamin Shepherd, Moonlight Beach Club)

Layne’s Chains (a tribute to Alice In Chains) – Beacon theatre, April 8 @ 6:30pm (w/ 4 Pay)

Virginia Beach Comedy Invasion – Capital Ale House, April 8 @ 7pm (w/ Bodacious, Brendan Kennedy, Everette Price, Chop Allen)

Saved by the 90s: A Party with The Bayside Tigers – The National, April 8 @ 8pm

The Congress – The Broadberry, April 8 @ 8pm

Future Prospect – The Camel, April 8 @ 8pm (w/ Steal the Last Bison, Unix)

The Gold Sauce – Cary Street Cafe, April 8 @ 10pm

No BS Brass Band – Balliceaux, April 8 @ 11pm

The Honey Dewdrops – The Tin Pan, April 9 @ 6pm (w/ Brackish Water Jamboree)

Richmond’s Musican Guild feat. Debo Dabney, Lucy Kilpatrick, Bruce Sillivan – Capital Ale House, April 9 @ 7pm

David Mallett and George Turman – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, April 9 @ 8pm

Datsik – The National, April 9 @ 8pm (w/ Ookay, Drezo)

The JOB – Emilio’s, April 9 @ 9pm

Funky Monks (Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute) – Cary Street Cafe, April 9 @ 10pm

Pace Tones – Balliceaux, April 9 @ 10:30pm

Field Mobb x Traptastic Dance Party – Strange Matter, April 9 @ 11pm

Roomful of Blues – The Tin Pan, April 10 @ 6pm

Pasadena – Canal Club, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Adwela & the Uprising)

Gregg Allman – The National, April 10 @ 7:30pm (w/ Gabriel Kelley)

Jane Monheit – Capital Ale House, April 10 @ 6:30pm & 9pm

The Nth Power – The Camel, April 11 @ 8pm (w/ Common Wealth)

Odean Pope Quartet – Capital Ale House, April 12 @ 6pm

The Stolen – Canal Club, April 12 @ 7pm (w/ Sobrosol, Sam McCoig, Tom and The Foolery, Corbyn Besson)

Iration – The National, April 12 @ 7:30pm (w/ Hirie)

Madball – Strange Matter, April 13 @ 5pm (w/ Die Young, Time To Act, Cease 2 Resist)

Average White Band – Beacon Theatre, April 13 @ 6:30pm

Wham City Comedy Featuring Rich Girls Comedy – Gallery 5, April 13 @ 7pm

The Head – The Camel, April 13 @ 8pm (w/ Leader, The Jolts)

Crave You (Flight Facilities) – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 13 @ 8pm

House of Trombone – Balliceaux, April 13 @ 9:30pm (w/ Bona Lisa)

Spaghetti Western Wednesday w/ Corey Wells & The Hitchhikers – Cary Street Cafe, April 13 @ 10pm

Holy Diva, A Dance Party to benefit the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project – Gallery 5, April 14 @ 7pm

The Meadows Brothers – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 14 @ 8pm

Love Canon – The Broadberry, April 14 @ 8pm

The Moonbees – The Camel, April 14 @ 8pm (w/ Fool’s Errand, And You Brutus?)

Big Gigantic – The National, April 14 @ 8:30pm (w/ Louis Futon, Sultans)

Gracie Terzian – Balliceaux, April 14 @ 9:30pm

Boxwave – Cary Street cafe, April 14 @ 10pm