Activate! May 2 - May 9

Activate!Activate! May 2 – May 9

Tonight at 7pm, chill with me as I recount all the hot shows coming up this week in Richmond. The musical accompaniment will include a song by Peace Beast (pictured), plus I'll give away free tickets to see Megadeth and Beats Antique!

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Activate! 5/2/12

Willie Nelson / Bloody Mary Morning / Columbia – Innsbrook Pavilion, May 9

The Whitetop Mountaineers / Free Little Bird / diy – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, May 5 @ 8pm (w/ Karl Helper)

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline / Long Gone / diy – Poe's Pub, May 4 @ 9pm (w/ The Circuit Riders)

JP Harris & the Tough Choices / Return to Sender / Cow Island – Balliceaux, May 9 @ 10:30pm

Marshall Seese / Home / diy – Globehopper, May 6 @ 6pm

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears / Sugarfoot / Lost Highway – Friday Cheers / Brown's island, May 4 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Preservation)

The New Belgians / Banana Hand Shuffle / diy – RVA Beer Fest / Gallery 5, May 5 @ 12-6pm (w/ Black Girls, Mikemetic, Goldrush, Apache Radio, Dream Machine, The Kindling Kind, People's Blues of Richmond)

The Kindling Kind / Awakening / diy

Black Girls / Broadway / Worthless Junk – The Camel, May 4 @ 9pm (w/ The New Belgians)

Beats Antique / Egyptic / CIA – The National, May 3 @ 7pm

Underwater Seacreatures / Speak Up / diy – Strange Matter, May 8 (w/ Moon Furies, Rems, Floating Chandelier)

Moon Furies / Skyy / diy

Julie Karr / Little Girls / Intervention – Cous Cous, May 3 @ 10:30pm (w/ Fletcher C. Johnson)

Fletcher C. Johnson / Messin' Up My Mind / White Iris

Peace Beast / Unlike You / diy – Strange Matter, May 7 @ 5pm (w/ Strangers Family Band, Spindrift)

Spindrift / The Legend of God's Gun / Beat the World

Screaming Females / Sheep / Don Giovanni – Strange Matter, May 9 @ 5pm (w/ Springtime, Fire Bison)

Springtime / Closer / diy – HA, May 7 (w/ Forget the Times, Family Cat, Carved Our Name In Snow)

Family Cat / Sexatron 5000 / diy – HA, May 8 @ 7pm (w/ Broadcaster, Jake Mayday, Little Master)

Broadcaster / Snow Party / Jump Start

Things Fall Apart / You Can Win / diy – HA, May 3 @ 7pm (w/ Vowel, Sayhiback, Dial Up)

White Suns / Growth / ugExplode – Strange Matter, May 7 @ 9pm

Megadeth / Wake Up Dead / Captiol – The National, May 9 @ 7pm (w/ Scavenger's Daughter)

Shy Low / Confirmation Bias / diy – The Camel, May 6 @ 9pm (w/ Spacemonster, Natalie Prass, Black Brothers, Boxer)

Fixtures / House of the Silver Wedding / diy – Canal Club, May 4 @ 6pm (w/ Conditions, Diamond, Life on Repeat, Late Night Habit)

Old Man Gloom / Sleeping With Snakes / Hydra Head – Strange Matter, May 5 @ 9pm (w/ Balaclava, Iron Reagan, Hex Machine)

Iron Reagan / Paycheck / diy

Balaclava / Fences / Forcefield

Tragedy / Deaf and Disbelieving / diy – Strange Matter, May 9 @ 9pm (w/ Ilsa, 45AD, Barge)

45AD / Prescription Subserviance / diy

Barge / Chain of Life / diy

To Speak of Wolves / Stand Alone Complex / Solid State – Kingdom, May 6 @ 5pm (w/ Life on Repeat, Young Statues, Harp and Lyre, The Composure)

Papadosio / Giving You Up / diy – The National, May 5 @ 8pm (w/ Biodiesel)

Southern Culture On the Skids – The Camel, May 3 @ 8pm (w/ Franz Nicolay)

Slack Family – Legend, May 4 @ 8pm

Bio Ritmo – Balliceaux, May 4 @ 10pm

Farm Vegas – The Camel, May 5

Loversville – Commercial Taphouse, May 6 @ 8pm

Antero – The Camel, May 7