Activate! April 4 - April 11

Activate!Activate! April 4 – April 11

Tonight's show is filled to the brim with cool bands who have live gigs in Richmond this week, from bluegrass like the Hackensaw Boys to death metal like Cannibal Corpse. I also have a pair of tickets to give away to tomorrow's SOLD OUT show with Real Estate (pictured)!

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Activate! 4/4/12

Hackensaw Boys / Sweet Petunia / Nettwerk – The National, April 6 @ 8pm (w/ Horsehead)

Emma Hill / Clumsy Seduction / diy – Globehopper, April 8 @ 6pm

Billy the Kid & the Southside Boys / Back In the Sand / diy – Poe's Pub, April 7 @ 9pm (w/ The Dimmer Twins, The Mirrors)

Lake Street Dive / Miss Disregard / Signature Sounds – Balliceaux, April 11 @ 10pm

Goldrush / It's Too Late / diy – Silent Film Night / VMFA, April 6 @ 6:30pm (Film: Battleship Potemkin)

Tik Tok / Maggot Mouth / diy – Ask a punk, April  5 @ 7pm (w/ Alison Self, The Mothball Fleet, Rivers)

Frankie Rose / Daylight Sky / Slumberland – Strange Matter, April 8 @ 8pm (w/ Nelly Kate, White Laces, Dive)

Nelly Kate / Minds & Corners / diy

Dead Fame / We Can Run / diy – Gallery 5, April 6 @ 8pm (w/ Diamond Black Hearted Boy, Black Liquid, Photosynthesizers)

Real Estate / It's Real / Domino – Strange Matter, April 5 @ 7pm (w/ The Twerps, The Diamond Center)

We Were Promised Jetpacks / Picture of Health / FatCat – The Camel, April 9 @ 8pm (w/ Bad Veins, New Cassettes)

New Cassettes / Silent Guns / Hype Music

Murphys Kids / High School / Community – The Camel, April 8 @ 8pm (w/ Kings of Belmont)

Nightmare Boyzzz / Nuclear Summer / Happenin – Cous Cous, April 5 @ 11pm (w/ Navi)

Dangerous Ponies / I Only Wear My favorite Clothes at Home / Punk Rock Payroll – H.A., April 6 @ 7pm (w/ Double Rainbow, Tiny Fighting Trees, Seen Saw)

Tiny Fighting Trees / Whose Streets / diy

The Sawyer Family / Why Did God Create? / Wasted State – Strange Matter, April 9 @ 9pm (w/ Roma, Boney Loner & the Sacred Teachers, Mystery Ship)

Roma / Gamma Nova / diy

Mystery Ship / Lady From Alexandria / diy

Creepoid / Wishing Well / No Idea – Strange Matter, April 6 @ 9pm (w/ Psychic Teens, Canary Oh Canary)

Psychic Teens / Cbbk / diy

Canary Oh Canary / In the Paneled Basement / diy – Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedome Project / Strange Matter, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ The Milkstains, Fire Bison, Little Master)

Little Master / Little Mistress / diy

Heavy Midgets / Something Terrible / diy – Strange Matter, April 11 @ 9pm (w/ Punch Button, The Absent Center, Starfish Prime)

Laura Stevenson & the Cans / Landslide Song, The Dig / diy – Strange Matter, April 7 @ 5pm (w/ The Manifestivus)

Slugz / Sick as a Dog / Grave Mistake – Ask a punk, April 9 @ 8pm (w/ Bad Noids, Eurotics)

Wake / Positively Negative / diy – H.A., April 7 @ 7pm (w/ Dial Up, Meth Lab, Terraset)

Converge / Eagles Become Vultures / Epitaph – Kingdom, April 11 @ 6pm (w/ Pianos Become the Teeth, Loma Prieta, Get Some, Pygmy Lush)

Pianos Become the Teeth / Filial / Topshelf

Windhand / Heap Wolves / Forcefield – Strange Matter, April 7 @ 9pm (w/ Bastard Sapling, BJNJPLZ, Set and Setting)

Blackguard / The Fear of All Flesh / Victory – Kingdom, April 7 @ 6:30pm (w/ Bounded By Blood, Kysmet, Skies Over Bethany)

Fixtures / House of the Silver Wedding / diy – The Camel, April 7 @ 5pm (w/ Surprise Surprise, Swordplay, Unsacred, Workhorses)

Unsacred / Living Blind and Falling Behind / Metal Blade

No Bragging Rights / Empire Disarray / Blk Heart – Kingdom, April 10 @ 5pm (w/ Lionheart)

Cannibal Corpse / Death Walking Terror / – Canal Club, April 10 @ 6:30pm (w/ Exhumed, Arkaik, Abysmal Dawn)

Ozric Tentacles / Feng Shui / Dovetail – Canal Club, April 7 @ 9pm (w/ Air Circus)

Excision – The National, April 5 @ 8pm (w/ Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date)

Yarn – The Camel, April 5 @ 9pm (w/ James Justin & Co, Farm Vegas)

No BS Brass Band – Balliceaux, April 5 @ 10pm

Mokey Doris – Globehopper, April 6 @ 6pm

Shane Cooley & friends – Capital Ale House, April 6 @ 9pm

Nick Coward & the Last Battle – The Republic, April 10 @ 10pm (w/ Adam & the Amethysts, The Soil and the Sun)