Activate! May 15 - May 22

Activate!Activate! May 15 – May 22

Picking tracks to play on Activate! is much easier than figuring out which songs don't make the cut, because there is that much killer live music happening in Richmond. Tonight at 7pm, I'm going to try to squeeze in over 35 bands, including The Green Boys, No BS Brass Band, and Sea of Storms (pictured), all of whom have record release shows this week. Plus, I'll give away tickets to see Shooter Jennings at the National!

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Activate! 5/15/13

No BS Brass Band / Lando / diy – Record Release / Balliceaux, May 17 @ 10:30pm; The Camel, May 18 @ 9pm (w/ Brand New Life)

Wayne Henderson / Cannonball Blues / Tucker Road – Benefit for WRIR / Westover Baptist Church, May 18 @ 7pm (w/ Helen White)

The Green Boys / The Queen of Hearts / diy – CD Release / The Camel, May 17 (w/ Jackass Flats, River City Band)

Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band / Mind's Eye / Sony – Groovin' In the Garden / Lewis Ginter, May 22 @ 5:30pm (w/ David Wax Museum)

Annie & the Beekeepers / My Bonneville / diy – Gallery 5, May 19 @ 7pm (w/ Hypercolor, Silversmiths)

Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat / Shoot Me to Sleep / diy – Sounds of RVA showcase / Bogart's In the Fan, May 18 @ 9pm (w/ Boxwave, Starfish Prime)

Iron & Wine / Boy With a Coin / Sub Pop – Groovin' In the Garden / Lewis Ginter, May 16 @ 5:30pm (w/ The Secret Sisters)

The Mohawk Lodge / Howling At the Moon / White Whale – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theatre, May 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ My Old Ways, Prabir Mehta)

Bad Magic / Sympathy Card / diy – Bandito's, May 19 @ 9pm (w/ First Creature)

Shooter Jennings / Everything Else is Illusion / Rocket Science – The National, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ Daniel Romano, Uncle Lucius)

Paper Route / You and I / Tree of Hearts – The Camel, May 21 (w/ Scolaro, Satellite)

The Features / This Disorder / Serpents and Snakes – Strange Matter, May 16 @ 9pm (w/ Those Manic Seas, Heyrocco)

Southern Culture On the Skids / Zombified / Kudzu – Capital Ale House, May 17 @ 9:30pm (w/ Atomic Mosquitos)

Many Mansions / Eleventh Lament for Dream Eternity / diy – Helen's, May 19 @ 7pm (w/ Wolf/Goat, Lobo Marino, Bad Zodiac, Happy Haines)

oOoOO / Seaww / Triangle – Strange Matter, May 21 @ 8pm (w/ Mutwawa, Negative Gemini, Anduin, Hydrophonics)

Geneva Jacuzzi / Do I Sad? / diy – Strange Matter, May 18 @ 9pm (w/ Mutwawa, Scoughs, Karacell, Ikagura)

Bad Veins / Gold and Warm / Modern Outsider – Strange Matter, May 20 @ 7pm (w/ JV Thrusting Squad, The Hadron Delay)

Double Rainbow / I Talk English / diy – The Camel, May 19 @ 7pm (w/ Olde Shame, Kicking Spit, Nuclear Santa Claust, Little Master)

Nuclear Santa Claust / Since I Woke Up / Don Giovanni

Titus Andronicus / Albert Camus / Troubleman Unlimited – Strange Matter, May 18 @ 5pm (w/ So So Glos, Ar-Kaics)

So So Glos / Son of an American / diy

Sundials / Brainwaves / Asian Man – Ask a punk, May 16 @ 7pm (w/ Brick Mower, Teen Death, Hot Dolphin)

Haunted Leather / Midnight's Child / Deth Trip – Ask a punk, May 16 @ 7pm (w/ Electric Citizen, Sacred Teachers)

Bandname / The Noids / Self Aware – Ask a punk, May 17 @ 7pm (w/ Amanda X, Mike Bell & the Movies, Holy Death, Navi)

The Marine Electric / Blackout Tell Eachother Secrets / Yo Yo – Ask a punk, May 20 @ 7pm (w/ Address, Wake, Swan of Tuonela)

Fancytramp / Loaded Gun / diy – The Nile, May 17 @ 10pm (w/ The Milkstains, Diamond Hairbrush)

Snowy Owls / Papertooth / Harding Street Assembly Lab – Gallery 5, May 17 @ 7pm (w/ Canary Oh Canary, Positive No)

Positive No / Powers of Ten / Little Black Cloud

Natural Child / Dogbite / Infinity Cat – Strange Matter, May 22 @ 5pm (w/ Ar-Kaics, Hot Dolphin, DJ Marty Violence)

Seahaven / Thank You / Run for Cover – Strange Matter, May 19 @ 4pm (w/ Cardinal, Dressing Cold)

O'Brother / Division of Man / Favourite Gentleman – Strange Matter, May 17 @ 8pm (w/ Shy Low, Comrades)

Comrades / Answer Me This / diy

Sea of Storms / Belly Full of Bones / diy – Record Release / The Nile, May 16 @ 10pm (w/ Meek is Murder, The Catalyst, Olde Shame)

Iron Reagan / Drop the Gun / A389 – Strange Matter, May 22 @ 9pm (w/ Violent Outburst, Pissheads, Aisle, Anhedonist)

Savage Attack / The Flood / diy – Wonderland, May 17 @ 9pm (w/ Ashes Within, Cousic Sleaze)

Internal Bleeding / Bleed By Example / Olympic – Kingdom, May 18 @ 5pm

DJ Logic / Michelle / Ropeadope – Canal Club, May 17 @ 10pm

Even more shows:

Black Girls – Balliceaux, May 16 @ 10pm

Toots & the Maytals – Dominion Riverrock / Brown's Island, May 17-19 (w/ Soulive, Lettuce, The Trongone Band, The New Belgians, The Shack band, The Southern Belles, Anders Osbourne, William Walter & Tucker Rogers, Barrelhouse, Photosynthesizers)

Geoff Rickley – Kingdom, May 17 @ 6pm (w/ John Nolan, Gabrielle the Marine)

Happy Lucky Combo – Crossroads, May 18 @ 8pm

Bio Ritmo – Balliceaux, May 22 @ 10pm