Activate! April 17 - April 24

Activate!Activate! April 17 – April 24

It's a festive time of year as we celebrate our local record shops during Record Store Day! Tonight, I'll preview some of the acts WRIR has assembled to perform throughout the day on Saturday and a load of other bands who have gigs in the River City this week.

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Activate! 4/17/13

The Former Champions / 17th Street / diy – CD release / The Camel, April 20 @ 9pm (w/ Segway)

Milk Carton Kids / New York / Anti – Capital Ale House, April 20 @ 8pm

Aly Todras / Sweet On Me / Lost Ridge – Globehopper, April 23 @ 6pm

Anousheh / Halos for Hellfire / diy – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theater, April 23 @ 7:30pm (w/ Liza Kate)

The Resonant Rogues / Waiting for the Rain / diy – Balliceaux, April 18 @ 9:30pm (w/ Black Sea Hotel)

See-I / Bulletproof / Fort Knox – Canal Club, April 19 @ 9pm (w/ The Polychrons, Antero, Hubble Bash)

Dirty Bourbon River Show / Wolfman / diy – Capital Ale House, April 18 @ 7pm

Hotel X / Uncommon Grounds / SST – Record Store Day Crawl / Plan 9, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

Julie Karr / Break My Heart / Intervention – Record Store Day Crawl / Plan 9, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

Matt Conner / Maybe / diy – Record Store Day Crawl / Vinyl Conflict, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

Matt Seymour / Livin' the Dream / Say-10 – Record Store Day Crawl / Vinyl Conflict, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

Snowy Owls / Fortunate Isles / diy – Record Store Day Crawl / Steady Sounds, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

Hoax Hunters / Riskless Business / diy – Record Store Day Crawl / Steady Sounds, April 20 (https://www.facebook.com/events/158643214300929/?fref=ts)

The Absent Center / Winter Song / Ontology – The Republic, April 19 @ 9pm (w/ Band of Young Saints)

Lightfields / Atomic / diy – Bogarts, April 20 (w/ Tungs, Naked Baby)

Tungs / Tapestry / diy

Quintron & Miss Pussycat / Fly Like a Rat / Goner – Strange Matter, April 21 @ 9pm (w/ Nervous Ticks, Bermuda Triangles)

Home Body / Fall / Tiny Radars – Gallery 5, April 20 (w/ Little Master, First Creature, Fordists)

Little Master / Little Mistress / diy

State Champion / The Basement / Sophomore Lounge – Strange Matter, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ Animal City, Roseanne, Spacemonster)

Animal City / Sommer Babies / Sophomore Lounge

Springtime / Closer / diy – Strange Matter, April 20 @ 5pm (w/ Jake Mayday, Furious George, Swan of Tuonela)

Swan of Tuonela / Misconstrued / diy

This is Your Life / Distractions / diy – Gallery 5, April 22 (w/ Sea of Storms, Pedlas On Our Pirate Ships, Rivernecks)

Sea of Storms / Belly Full of Bones / diy

Odonis Odonis / Mr. Smith / Buzz – Strange Matter, April 19 @ 9pm (w/ Barren Girls, Strumpet, Herro Sugar)

Barren Girls / She Devil / Merge – Steady Sounds, April 19 @ 5pm

Not Half Bad / Thin Crust / diy – Ask a punk, April 19 @ 9pm (w/ Wolfbite, The Parsecs, Toy Store Riot)

The Screws / Appliances / diy – Wonderland, April 20 @ 9pm (w/ Abject, Never Wrong)

Hammer Fight / Stuck In the Chamber / diy – Strange Matter, April 20 @ 9pm (w/ Psychosomatic, Necrobeast, Cyaegha)

Psychosomatic / Another Disease / Thrashcore

Mean Jeans / Steve Don't Party No More / Dirtnap – The Nile, April 18 @ 10:30pm (w/ Big No, Hollywood, the Shirks)

The Shirks / Cry Cry Cry / Grave Mistake

Barge / Chain of Life / Vinyl Conflict – Record Release / Kingdom, April 22 @ 7pm (w/ Power Trip, Hounds of Hate, Violent Reaction, Friend or Foe)

Power Trip / Hammer of Doubt / Triple B

Backslider / Born Annoyed / Six Weeks – Ask a punk, April 20 (w/ Disciples of Christ, Meth Lab)

Laserface / Six Weeks In Pangea / Ctrl-Alt-Delete – Kingdom, April 18 @ 8pm (w/ Obscure, Darth and Vader, Agent, Reinhold, RudeeBeats)

Even more shows:

The Hot Seats Short Band – Hardywood Brewery, April 19 @ 4pm

Zeds Dead – The National, April 19 @ 8pm (w/ Mike Phear, DJ 2Rip, Rudee Cash)

Members of The Brotherhood, Soundstorm, People's Blues of Richmond, Roger Pouncey's Quintet – Bogarts, April 19 @ 9pm

Vexine – Poe's Pub, April 19 @ 9pm

Chelsea McBee & the Random Assortment – Mint, April 19 @ 10:30pm

Richmond Shape Note Singers – Hymnal Release / Glave Kocen Gallery, April 20 @ 4pm

Chelsea McBee & the Random Assortment – Crossroads, April 20 @ 8pm

Sun-Dried Opossum – Cary Street Cafe, April 20 @ 10pm

STS9 – The National, April 21@ 7pm (w/ Eliot Lipp)

Bad Magic – Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project / The Nile, April 21 @ 10pm (w/ Sportsbar, Grump)

Prizehog – Strange Matter, April 23 @ 9pm

Enter the Haggis – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 24 @ 8pm