Activate! May 30 - June 6

Activate!Activate! May 30 – June 6

You've probably figured out by now that you can go see a good show in Richmond every night of the week. At 7pm, I've got over 30 bands worth seeing in the next 7 days, including Sweet Fern (pictured) who are performing at WRIR's Ice Cream Social next Wednesday! Plus, I'll give away tickets to see Tune-Yards at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville.

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Activate! 5/30/12

Lonnie Liston Smith / Expansions / Flying Dutchman – Hippodrome Theatre, June 1 @ 7pm

DJ Williams Projekt / Second Chance / diy – 9 Year Anniversary / The Camel, June 3 @ 9pm

Moruza / Weird Little Person / diy – The Camel, June 3 @ 5pm (w/ Fable Cry)

Black Girls / Country Song / Worthless Junk – The Camel, June 1 @ 9pm (w/ Isaiah & Hovey)

Sweet Fern / Tennessee Flat Top Box / diy – Sounds Sweet WRIR Ice Cream Social / Anderson Gallery, June 6 @ 5pm (w/ River City Band)

Jonathan Vassar & the Speckled Bird / The Face of My Father / Triple Stamp – Balliceaux, June 3 @ 9pm

Paleface / Dancing Daze / Ramseur – Balliceaux, May 31 @ 9:30pm (w/ Fuzzy Baby)

The Pietasters / Don't Wanna Know / Indication  – Kingdom, June 1 @ 7pm (w/ Murphys Kids, The Bastard Suns, Capital 7)

Pedals On Our Pirate Ships / Night of the Living Wage / diy – Gallery 5, June 1 @ 8pm (w/ Fire Bison, DJ Lighting's Girl)

Activate! Flashback! Triple Twins / Belated Birthdays / Rorschach – Benefit for Jackson, MS Clinic Defense Fund @ Nanci Raygun, June 1, 2006 (w/ Liza Kate, Moth Squad Street Theater)

Tune-Yards / You Yes You / 4AD – Jefferson Theatre in Charlottesville, June 5 (w/ Mariachi El Bronx)

City and Colour / Fragile Bird / Dine Alone – The National, May 31 @ 7pm (w/ David Bazan, Dan Romano)

David Bazan / Bless this Mess / Barsuk

Houdan the Mystic / Chasing the Strobe / diy – The Camel, June 2 @ 8pm (w/ Night Idea, Brother Wolf, The Habitat)

Dave Watkins / Holy Mackerel!! / diy – Globehopper, June 1 @ 6pm (w/ Lost Trail, Arte Povera, Floating Colors)

ZZ Top / My Head's In Mississippi / Warner – Innsbrook Pavilion, June 5 (w/ Gretchen Wilson)

PlayStart / Leave It / diy – The Camel, June 5 @ 8pm (w/ Hot Dolphin, Eurotics, Noon:30)

Hot Dolphin / Elvis / diy

Bermuda Triangles / Bloo / CNP – Strange Matter, June 2 @ 9pm (w/ The Sediment Club, Flesh Control, Head Molt, Guerilla Toss)

The Sediment Club / 13 / Softspot

The Milkstains / Mountain / diy – Cellar Door, June 3 @ 9pm (w/ Chrome Daddy Disco, The Fooligans, Broken Pony)

Sundials / Neighborhood Well / diy – H.A., May 31 @ 8pm (w/ Sourpatch, Mirror Coat)

Sourpatch / Cynthia Ann / diy

Ascetic Parade / Ten years / Death to False Hope – H.A., June 2 @ 8pm (w/ Sayhiback, Trust Fall, In Circles)

In Circles / Vanishing Point / Evil Weevil

Sectarian Violence / Desocialized / Grave Mistake – Strange Matter, June 4 @ 4pm (w/ The Devil's Hand)

Freedom Hawk / Land of the Lost / Small Stone – Wonderland, June 2 @ 10pm (w/ Pike Possum)

Phobia / Contradiction / Relapse – Strange Matter, June 5 @ 9pm (w/ Street Pizza, Strong Intention, Meth Lab, Unsacred)

Street Pizza / Watery Eye / diy

Antietam 1862 / Endless Wrath / diy – Strange Matter, June 1 @ 9pm (w/ Ravn, Withered, Dominium)

Withered / Extinguished With the Weary / Prosthetic

Battlemaster / Intelligencer / Forcefield – Strange Matter, May 31 @ 9pm (w/ Horna, Kommandment, Bastard Sapling)

Nautical Almanac / Rejerks 6 / Heresee – Strange Matter, June 4 @ 9pm (w/ Twilight Memories of the Three Suns, Contortionist Jazz Exotica, Champagne of Rats, Mutwawa)

Janet Martin – Capital Ale House, June 1 @ 5pm

George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic – Stone Soul Festival / Brown's Island, June 2 (w/ Boyz II Men, Travis Porter, Cash Out, Byron Cage, Dietrick Haddon, Ruben Studdard, Hank)

Night of Honky Tonk Angels III – Benefit for VA Breast Cancer Foundation / Canal Club, June 2 @ 6pm (w/ Molly Conley, The Ones to Blame, Tammi Kamin Band, Gina Dalmas & the Cow Tipping Playboys, April Mae & the June Bugs)

The Original Wailers – The National, June 2 @ 7pm (w/ Antero)

Roddy Barnes – Gay Community Center, June 2 @ 8pm

Jennings – Current, June 2 @ 10pm (w/ Rachel Epp, Red Lewis, Dane Ferguson)

Kinetic Element – Strange Matter, June 3 @ 5pm (w/ PJ Bottoms, The Recliners)