Activate! April 30 - May 7

Activate!Activate! April 30 – May 7

May is flowering with big shows and I'll preview some of them tonight at 7pm, including the Parkfest Blues Festival, Tuesdays at The Broadberry, and the Album Release party for "Vicious Design" by Dead Fame (pictured). Plus, I'll debut a new song from Photosynthesizers and give away tickets to see The Men this Friday at Strange Matter!

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Activate! 4-30-14

Malhombre / Fini / Little Black Cloud – Globehopper, May 7 @ 6pm (w/ Lobo Marino)

High Time for Lowlifes / Hundred Years War / diy – The Grill at Libbie and Patterson, May 3 @ 9:30pm (w/ Matt Conner)

Sam Baker / Broken Fingers / BlueLineStone – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 2 @ 8pm

Moreland & Arbuckle / Tall Boogie / Telarc – Parkfest Blues Festival / Pocahontas State Park, May 3 @ 12 noon (w/ Albert Cummings, Ellersoul Blues and Soul Revue, Herbie D & the Dangermen, In Laymen Terms, The Unexpected)

Fool's Errand / Dirty Nails / diy – Balliceaux, May 1 @ 9pm (w/ Red Light Rodeo)

DJ Williams Projekt / Up All Night / diy- Tuesdays at The Broadberry, May 6 @ 8pm

Jimkata / Beat the Curse / diy – Capital Ale House, May 1 @ 9pm (w/ Lord Nelson)

Swordplay / Conversation Skills / Dora Dorovitch – Gallery 5, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Heavy Midgets, Energy 2000)

Energy 2000 / Extra-Vehicular Activity / diy

Dead Fame / Joan Crawford / diy – Record Release / Balliceaux, May 3 @ 10pm (w/ DJ Sean Lovelace, DJ Connie Sue)

Photosynthesizers / The Best of the Class / diy – Strange Matter, May 3 @ 9pm (w/ Chi Unit, Mah Lion)

Brick + Mortar / Bangs / Mad Dragon – The Camel, May 4 @ 7pm (w/ Strumpet, Fibula)

Strumpet / Magnolia / diy

Kokanko Sata / Djoti Sayoro Don / Honest Jon's – Sub Rosa Bakery, May 2 @ 7:30pm

Matt Pryor / Words Get In the Way /  Equal Vision – The Camel, May 7 (w/ Mark Rose, Josh Berwanger, Blue of Colors)

Josh Berwanger / Time Traveler / diy

The Welcome Hips / Shoreline / diy – River City Recording, May 2 @ 8pm (w/ Stag Baron)

Man Man / Head On / Anti – Strange Matter, May 6 @ 8pm (w/ Bermuda Triangles)

People's Blues of Richmond / Black Cat / diy – The Camel, May 3 @ 8pm (w/ KO & Company, Jordan Tarrant)

Trust Fall / I Still Have Lies to Spare / diy – Ask a punk, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Lies and Lines, Walter Jr, Koka Kola)

The Men / Turn It Arund / Sacred Bones – Strange Matter, May 2 @ 9pm (w/ Nude Beach, Big Air, The Snowy Owls)

Nude Beach / Radio / Other Music

Big Air / Spot to Hang / WarHen

Sub X / Survive / diy – Wonderland, May 2 @ 9pm (w/ 45AD)

45AD / A Fiery Gift / diy

Prisoner / Tormentor / diy – Ask a punk / Benefit for Punx Picnic, May 3 @ 8pm (w/ Burn/Ward, Bitchmouth, Hot Dolphin, Men's Room, Omega Boys)

Burn/Ward / Wicked, Deceiver / diy

Truckfighters / Monster / Fuzzorama – Strange Matter, May 4 @ 7pm (w/ US Brass, Hellbear)

Hellbear / In Sand, We Sit / Fake Art Fake Music

US Brass / Crash and Burn / Beefhog

Rob Zombie / Grindhouse (A Go-Go) / Geffen – The National, May 4 @ 7pm (w/ Disco Death Rock)

Laetherstrip / Evil Speaks / Cleopatra – Fallout, May 7 @ 8pm (w/ Venal Flesh, Machine Chop Inc.)

Conspirator / Feed the Wolf / diy – Canal Club, May 2 @ 8pm (w/ Manic Focus, The Former Champions, The Polychrons)

Even more shows:

The Foregin Exchange – Canal Club, May 1 @ 8pm

Mighty Monde – City Dogs, May 1 @ 10pm

Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, May 2 @ 6pm (w/ Vintage Trouble)

Mercutio – Sine, May 2 @ 9:45pm

Murphy's Kids – Cary Street Cafe, May 2 @ 10pm (w/ Aquafuture)

Bio Ritmo – Hardywood, May 3 @ 5:30pm (w/ DJ Rattan)

Rattlemouth – Crossroads, May 3 @ 8pm

Jeni and Billy – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, May 3 @ 8pm

Zombie XXX – Wonderland, May 3 @ 9pm

Mercutio – Tobacco Company, May 4

Loversville – Commercial Taphouse, May 4 @ 8pm

Miramar – Ipanema, May 4 @ 10pm

Los Ramones – En Su Boca, May 5 @ 10pm

Philip Gibbs – Songwriter Series / The Camel, May 6