Activate! May 23 - May 30

Activate!Activate! May 23 – May 30

Heyo, it's time once again to figure out what bands you want to see live this week in Richmond. I have a full preview of your options at 7pm and I'll even give away tickets to see St. Vincent (pictured) at the National!

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Activate! 5/23/12

Municipal Waste / The Fatal Feast / Nuclear Blast – Record Release / Wonderland, May 23 @ pm (w/ Inter Arma, Imperial Order)

My Son the Doctor / Zingarella / diy – Crossroads, May 26 @ 8pm

The Steel Wheels / Miller's Hill / diy – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 25 @ 8pm

Markiss Blowfish / When I'm Poor / diy – Canal Club, May 26 @ 8pm (w/ The Bush League, Last Nights Blues Band, Halfbrother Sid)

Miss Tess / Oh No / diy – Balliceaux, May 25 @ 10:30pm (w/ The Talkbacks)

Brownbird Rudy Relic / Lonely When You're here / Reltone – Balliceaux, May 24 @ 9pm (w/ Los Bastardos Magnificos, Sweet Fern)

Elikeh Afropop / Get ready / Azalea City – Balliceaux, May 26 @ 10:30pm (w/ DJ Greybeard)

Briana Marela / Alternate Realities / Bicycle – Ask a punk, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ Nelly Kate, Michele Seippel)

Wild Moccasins / Gag Reflections / New West – The Republic, May 24 @ 9pm (w/ The Fire Tapes)

Manorlady / Boy and Flippers / diy – Cellar Door, May 25 @ 10pm (w/ The Lonely Teardrops, Fire Bison)

The Hill and Wood / Something Comes From Nothing / diy – The Camel, May 29 @ 8pm (w/ Goldrush, Herschel Stratego)

Joe Buck Jr. / Beautiful People / diy – The Camel, May 27 @ 9pm (w/ Paulo Franco, Bombadil)

Photosynthesizers / Crush / diy – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, May 25 @ 6:30pm (w/ Three Sheets to the Wind, The Trillions)

Dank D / Multi-Standard / diy – Face Melt Friday / Strange Matter, May 25 @ 7pm (w/ OMG, Black Liquid, Sleaze, Antagonist Dragonspit, Blokx, Due Justice, Divine Profits, Established Dons, Falmouf, Gritty City, Ice James, High Skool Heroes, Lyrix & Koncept, Lynx, RAIGE, Crash McKie)

Divine Profitz / Starvin' Artist / Concice

Double Rainbow / Hands / diy – "A Festival of Rights" benefit for Planned Parenthood / Gallery 5, May 26 @ 8pm (w/ The Diamond Center, The Mothball Fleet, Cheyenne, White Laces)

The Diamond Center / Caraway / Someday This Will All Make Sense

Cheyenne / High Five / diy

St. Vincent / Year of the Tiger / 4AD – The National, May 24 @ 7pm (w/ Shearwater)

Shearwater / Animal Life / Sub Pop

Marionette / Your World / Blind Sea – RVA Playlist Birthday party / The Camel, May 30 (w/ Dead Fame, Against Grace)

Dead Fame / Turning / diy

Roma / Cigarettes, Knife, and a Cellular Phone / diy – Current, May 25 @ 8pm (w/ The Absent Center, Splendid Suns, Red States)

Promethean / Thou Trusty / diy – Strange Matter, May 24 @ 9pm (w/ The Hadron Delay, Solace Sovay, Phantasm)

Warrior Kids / Les Wieux Kons / True Force – Strange Matter, May 26 @ 9pm (w/ No Values, Hard Stripes, Devils Hand)

No Values / Grown and Gone / Reaper

Unholy Thoughts / Hell is Other People / diy – Strange Matter, May 27 @ 10pm (w/ Urban Waste)

Urban Waste / Public Opinion / Mob Style

Southside Stranglers / Don't Love You / Grave Mistake – Ask a punk, May 27 @ 6:30pm (w/ Dawn of Humans, Hank Wood and the Hammerheads)

Scale the Summit / Colossal / Prosthetic – Kingdom, May 30 @ 5pm (w/ Today I Caught the Plague)

Ghoul / Destructor / Tankcrimes – Memorial Day Mash / Strange Matter, May 28 @ 4pm (w/ Dragged Into Sunlight, Meth Lab, Occultist, Cough, Backslider, Agents of Abhorrence, Koward, Nashgul, Marrow)

Occultist / Stratomantis / diy

Cough / Crippled Wizard / Forcefield

Roughhausen / DeBasement / diy – Fallout, May 30 @ 10pm (w/ Little Black Rain Clouds, Synthetic Nightmare)

Yonder Mountain String Band – Groovin' In the Garden, May 24 (w/ Zach Deputy)

Rattlemouth – Unhappy Hour / Poe's Pub, May 24 @ 6pm

Ms. Proper – Kingdom, May 24 @ 7pm (w/ DOE, Louis Valles, DJ Booki Bluntz, YFDMG, Bizniz, Eric Stanley, Kleos and Davey, Full Vision)

Compass Rose Orchestra – The Camel, May 24 @ 9pm (w/ The Silo Effect)

Lorem Ipsum – Cellar Door, May 26 (w/ Navi, Heavy Midgets)

Grease Trigger – The Camel, May 26 (w/ Brother Bill)

Paul Blest – Ask a punk, May 29 (w/ Matt Seymour, Starving Arts, Seen/Saw)

Matt Conner & the Enablers – Balliceaux, May 30 @ 9pm