Activate! 3/19-3/26: Fund Drive edition

Activate!Activate! 3/19-3/26: Fund Drive edition

No diggity, it's our Spring Fund Drive and you can join the WRIR family by clicking the red "Donate" button! Also, I have some special goodies on Activate! tonight, including a live performance by one-man rock 'n roll machine Gull (pictured), tons of local music and other bands who have shows in Richmond this week, and tickets to give away to see Danny Brown.

Click on "read more" for the show listings / playlist. Click here for the podcast: http://www.wrir.org/tunein/

Activate! 3-19-14

Danny Brown / Dope Song / Fool's Gold – Jefferson Theatre, April 11 @ 8pm

Lobo Marino / Celebrate / diy – Hardywood Brewery, March 22 @ 5pm (w/ Antique Animals, Swamptrees)

Karikatura / Horns of Love / diy – Canal Club, March 24 @ 7:30pm (w/ Miramar)

Ocean vs. Daughter / Salmiakki / diy – The Camel, March 23 @ 8pm (w/ Bombadil)

Stephen Simmons / Time to Pay / Locke Creek – Ashland Coffee & Tea, March 20 @ 8pm

Everymen / Waking Up Hurts / Wayward Parade – Strange Matter, March 21 @ 9pm (w/ Creep-A-Zoids, The Wet Boys, Hellhounds)

Creep-A-Zoids / Experimental Serum #114 / diy

Gull LIVE IN WRIR STUDIOS – Gallery 5, March 19 (w/ Nymph, NuDepth, Geometric Shapes)

Houdan the Mystic / Chasing the Strobe / diy – Strange Matter, March 22 @ 9pm (w/ Shy Low, The Rice Cakes, Hi-Life Wedding)

Lisabi / Senseless Acts of Violence / Community – Strange Matter, March 25 @ 9pm (w/ Inland Ocean, Suneater, Parentheses)

Avers / White Horses / diy – The Camel, March 20 (w/ Sleepwalkers, Sister/Lovers, A Tribute to Big Star)

Black Girls / Banging LA / diy – The Camel, March 22 @ 8pm (w/ BRNDA, Big Mama Shakes)

Naked Baby / Hex / diy – Strange Matter, March 23 @ 8pm (w/ Sonic Loser, Wing Dam, Money Troubles, The Neighbors)

Ava Luna / Daydream / Western Vinyl – Gallery 5, March 20 @ 7:30pm (w/ Navi, Krill, Naked Baby)

Navi / Rainbow Pox / diy – Balliceaux, March 20 @ 9:30pm (w/ Canary Oh Canary)

Dumb Waiter / Indubitably Dumbfounded / diy – Silent Music Revival / Gallery 5, March 23 @ 8pm (Film: Mutt and Jeff)

Fletcher C. Johnson / Messin' Up My Mind / diy – En Su Boca, March 21 @ 10:30pm (w/ Sportsbar, Hector's Pets)

Sportsbar / I was Going to Shave My Beard, but I Took a Nap Instead / diy

Bitchmouth / Fox / diy – Strange Matter, March 24 @ 9pm (w/ Grower, Burn/Ward, Kids, Page of Concrete)

Burn/Ward / Wicked, Deceiver / diy

Death Angel / Sonic Beatdown / Nuclear Blast – Strange Matter, March 20 @ 6pm (w/ Gritter, Tyr, Rebellum)

King Parrot / Silly Ol' Mate / Candlelight – Strange Matter, March 26 @ 9pm (w/ Vaporizer, Vattnet Viskar, Cremains, Crater)

Excision / Obvious / Maustrap – The National, March 20 @ 8pm (w/ Dirtyphonics, ill.Gates)

Even more shows:

Yarn – Capital Ale House, March 20 @ 8pm

Rohlk & Reason – Canal Club, March 21 @ 7pm (w/  side Oceans, The Mother Band, The Kyle Osterhaus Band, The Concussion Theory)

My Son the Doctor – Stir Crazy, March 21 @ 7pm

804 Locals show – The Rational, March 21 @ 8pm (w/ Red States, Ben Berumez, She's A Legend, Energy 2000, The Killing Daylights)

To Kill a King – Capital Ale House, March 21 @ 9:30pm

Tiger Tail – Ask a punk, March 22 @ 7pm (w/ Real Change, Vulgar, Grass is Green, Two Inch Astronaut, Koka Kola)

Matt Schofield – Capital Ale House, March 22 @ 8pm

Christopher S. Feltner & Guillermo Pizzaro – Ask a punk, March 22 @ 8pm (w/ Brown Piss, Stress Orphan, Stephen Palke, Dromopod, Cancer of the Cloaca)

Happy Lucky Combo – Crossroads, March 22 @ 8pm

Zombie XXX – Cullen's Cove, March 22 @ 9pm (w/ Rev. D-Ray & the Shockers)

Old Virginia Bluegrass – Legend, March 23 @ 6pm

The Shangri-Lords – Bandito's, March 23 @ 9pm (w/ Girl Choir)

Dirty Bourbon River Show – Balliceaux, March 23 @ 9pm

Tacocat / Bridge to Hawaii / Hardly Art – TBA, March 24 @ 7pm

The Stary Birds – Ashland Coffee & Tea, March 25 @ 8pm

Fear of Music, a Tribute to the Talking Heads – Cary Street Cafe, March 25 @ 10pm

Neck Deep – The Camel, March 26 @ 7pm (w/ Kuncklepuck, Light Years, Sunbox)

Louis Logic – Ask a punk, March 26 @ 9pm (w/ Ecid, Black Liquid, Swordplay, The Honorable Sleaze)

Russell Lacy – Emilio's, March 26 @ 10pm (w/ Industry Standard, A Woman is a Woman)