Activate! January 2 - January 9

Activate!Activate! January 2 – January 9

After a 2-week holiday hiatus, I am back behind the controls of Activate! Tonight at 7pm, I'll deliver some New Year cheer by previewing what's ahead on Richmond's live music calendar, including reunited group The Ernies (pictured). Who knows, you may hear a band you like, go see them in concert, and it lands on your best of 2013!

Click on "read more" for the show listings / playlist. Click here for the podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Activate!

ACTIVATE! 1-2-13

The Floorboards / Cecelia / diy – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 4 @ 10pm

The Funk Ark / El Beasto / ESL – Balliceaux, Jan. 5 @ 10:30pm

Rattlemouth / Pop Manifesto / diy – Crossroads, Jan. 5 @ 8pm

Richmanian Ramblers / Valeleu / diy – Balliceaux, Jan. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Alison Self)

Alison Self / Busted Knees, Broken Hearts / diy – The Flying Brick, Jan. 9 @ 6pm (w/ Wood Spider, Antiphons, Teenage Mysticism, Spandrel)

Folk Soul Revival / D'Railed / diy – The Camel, Jan. 5 @ 9pm

The Southern Belles / Roy / diy – The Camel, Jan. 4 @ 9pm (w/ The Silo Effect)

Devil Makes Three / Help Yourself / Milan – Capital Ale House, Jan. 8 @ 7pm (w/ Phillip Roebuck)

Way Shape or Form / Medicine Book / diy – Ipanema, Jan. 6 @ 10pm

JV Thrusting Squad / Mother / diy – Canal Club, Jan. 5 @ 7pm (w/ Sunrise Detour, The Villatones, Gallo Vera, Friends of the Family)

The Blue Rajas / Papayrus / diy – Bandito's, Jan. 6 @ 9pm (w/ The Green Hearts)

Sink Tapes / The Soul is in the Kitchen / diy – Strange Matter, Jan. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Brother Wolf, Brother Simon, Will Bollinger & the Spiders, New Metro)

The World is a Beautiful Place and I am no Longer Afraid to Die / I Will Be Okay. Everything / Topshelf – Strange Matter, Jan. 9 @ 5pm (w/ Adventures, Trust Fall, Cheyenne)

Adventures / Reach Out to You / No Sleep

Cheyenne / High Five / diy

Pedals On Our Pirate Ships / Two Simple Words / Sidejar – Strange Matter, Jan. 7 @ 5pm (w/ Jake Mayday, The Wild, Alison Self)

The Wild / The Ballad of Jonny Z / Sidejar

The Ernies / Here and Now / Mojo – The Camel, Jan. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Photosynthesizers)

The Act Rights / East India Rush / Tonequake – Strange Matter, Jan. 8 @ 9pm (w/ The TKA, Ghost Lotion, The Banduras)

Ghost Lotion / AAA / Acme Thunderer

Waxahatchee / Grass Stain / Don Giovanni – Ask a punk, Jan. 4 (w/ Dikembe, Pity Sex, You Blew it!, Run Forever, State Lines)

Run, Forever / Young Pioneers / Solidarity

The Sediment Club / Deeper In Hell / Softspot – Strange Matter, Jan. 5 @ 5pm (w/ Wess Brockman + Jason Hodges, JM Wave, Scant, Witch Wolf)

Word In Red / Resigned Not Resigning / No Idea – Gallery 5, Jan. 9 @ 7:30pm (w/ Brief Lives, Sea of Storms, Hoax Hunters)

Sea of Storms / Belly Full of Bones / diy

Balaclava / A Prophet / Southern Lord – Strange Matter, Jan. 4 @ 9pm (w/ War Graves, Ghostlimb, R-Complex)

Ghostlimb / The Custom Of the Sea / Vitriol

War Graves / Arbitrary Moral Injunction / diy

Gifts From Enola / Steady Diet / The Mylene Sheath – Strange Matter, Jan. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Houdan the Mystic, Fight Cloud, October Wolves)

Inter Arma / 2000 Years / Forcefield – Strange Matter, Jan. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Hivelords, Sadgiqacia, Subjugation, Sacrificial Massacre, Congenital Death)

Sadgiqacia / Carpe Noctem / diy

Champagne of Rats / Deathworld / diy – Ask a punk, Jan. 3 @ 7pm (w/ Leo Svirsky, Paul Joyner, Erdrick's Armor)