Activate! May 19 - May 26 presents:

Activate!Activate! May 19 – May 26

There are more live shows in Richmond this week than you can shake a stick at! So, I'll try and help you decide which ones to go to, with a 2-hour musical preview.

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Activate! 5-19-10

David M. Bailey / Dogwood Days / diy – Benefit for Richmond Brain Tumor Support Group / Capital Ale House, May 23 @ 2pm (w/ Susan Greenbaum)

Steel Pulse / Sound System / Hip-O – The National, May 23 @ 8pm (w/ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad)

Sol & Funk Root / Girl / diy – Capital Ale House, May 21 @ 10pm (w/ Margaux LaSourd)

Cha Cha's Cadillac / White Trash Baby / diy – Poe's Pub, May 21 @ 9:30pm

Loversville / Pick Me Up On Your Way Down / live – Commercial Taphouse, May 23 @ 9pm

Velvet Marias / Ohio / diy – Poe's Pub, May 22 @ 9:30pm

Farm Vegas / 600 Pounds of Sin / diy – CD Release / Hat Factory, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ People's Blues of Richmond, Harwell Grice Band)

Brian Martin / Connected / diy – CD Release / Honey Whyte's, May 22 @ 9pm

Murphy's Kids / Plans / Community – Cary Street Cafe, May 21 @ 10pm

Marionette / It Was Nice Meeting You / Blind Sea – The Camel, May 21 @ 9pm (w/ iLad)

iLad / Lou Dobbs / diy

Svarte Greiner / Raggsokk / Miasmah – Reference Gallery, May 21 @ 8pm (w/ Anduin, The Sight Below)

Anduin / Contents of a Black Box / SMTG

Frankzig / Steal My Thunder / diy – Strange Matter, May 20 (w/ Sundials, Semiyantak, Fire Faithful)

Sundials / Neighborhood Well / diy

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth / Let's All Get Fades / Chalk Circle – The Triple, May 24 @ 10pm (w/ Floating Colors, Bermuda Triangles, Ghosttype, _+_)

_+_ / Laserbeam / diy

Trevor Dunn / Liver Colored Dew / Ipecac – Balliceaux, May 22 @ 11pm (w/ The Proof Readers, performing the music of Ornette Coleman)

KC Quilty / Clothes / Cooling Pie – The Triple, May 23 @ 10pm (w/ The Diamond Center, The Milkstains, Nana Grizo)

Nana Grizol / Galaxies / Orange Twin

Dammit Matthew Dammit / Soup and Groupies/ diy – The Camel, May 25 @ 7pm (w/ Baby Help Me Forget, Superglue Ghandis, Random Acts)

Crime In Stereo / Bicycles for Afghanistan / Nitro – The Camel, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ Hold Tight!, The Swellers, This Time Next Year)

The Swellers / Bottles / Fueled By Ramen

The Revelevens / Cenotaph / Artillery House – The Triple, May 21 @ 10pm (w/ Snallygaster, Last Minute of Light)

The Ladies / Hole Sailor / No Way – Record Release / Strange Matter, May 22 @ 10pm (w/ Critters, School Jerks, The Points)

School Jerks / Nothing Else / Riff Raff

Verbal Abuse / No Thanks To You / diy – Alley Katz, May 20 @ 7pm (Fang, Total Wreck, Capitalist Casualties, Syndrome)

Parasytic / Animal Sacrifice / Vex – Gallery 5, May 21 @ 7pm (w/ Deceased, Occultist, Syndrome)

Deceased / Worship the Coffin / Thrash Corner

Gritter / Well Water / diy – The Triple, May 20 @ 8pm (w/ Hogtooth, The Great Sabatini)

Inter Arma / Epicenter / Forcefield – Strange Matter, May 23 @ 6pm (w/ Neckbrace, Earthling, Revolta)

Revolta / Thought Police / diy

Alex B / You and I Both Know / Elm and Oak – Canal Club, May 22 @ 9pm (w/ Jason & the State, Chenchilla Fresh)

 

Other shows (by date):

Rattlemouth – Cafe Diem, May 19 @ 8pm

Tuff Deal – Cafe Diem, May 20 @ 9pm

Charles Arthur – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 20 @ 7pm

Richmond Comedy Coalition – Gallery 5, May 20 @ 8pm

The Rough Spots – Weezie's, May 20 @ 8:30pm

Peanut Gringo – City Dogs, May 20 @ 9pm

The Veins – Cous Cous, May 20 @ 10pm (w/ Matt Neagle & Billy D, Shannon Cleary)

Think – Emilio's, May 20 @ 10pm

No BS Brass Band – Balliceaux, May 20 @ 10pm

Railroad Earth – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, May 21 (w/ 6 Day Bender)

Blue Whiskey – Capital Ale House, May 21 @ 5pm

Back to Normal – Alley Katz, May 21 @ 5pm (w/ Rescue the Hero, Young Liars, Last Try)

Dark Star Orchestra – Innsbrook Pavilion, May 21 @ 6pm

Wheatus – Canal Club, May 21 @ 7pm (w/ 4 Miles Away, Rival, Every Other Weekend, Parchment Kick)

Mojo Worin' – Legend, May 21 @ 8pm

Tish Hinojosa – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 21 @ 8pm

Main Street band – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, May 21 @ 8pm

Brad Spivey & the Honky Tonk Experience – Shenanigans, May 21 @ 8:30pm

Jon Barnes Band – City Dogs, May 21 @ 9pm

Antero – Gibson's Grill, May 21 @ 10pm

The Girtles, A Tribute to the Beatles – Balliceaux, May 21 @ 11pm

Brown Sabbath – ALS benefit / Cary Street Cafe, May 22 @ 12 Noon (w/ Headstone Circus, King Solomon's Marbles)

The Vignettes – HLH, May 22 @ 5pm (w/ Hot Lava)

The Antikythera Mechanism – Plaza Bowl, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ Imperial Order, Afterlyfe)

Highway Saints – The National, May 22 @ 7pm

Very Magic – The Wingnut, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ David Deese, Jane, The Tale of Horse)

Tin Foil Militia – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, May 22 @ 8pm

Haze & the Transients – Legend, May 22 @ 8pm

The Coalmen – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 22 @ 8pm

Uncle Drew & the Powhite Boys – Shenanigans, May 22 @ 8:30pm

J3 Project – City Dogs, May 22 @ 9pm

Hazy Dave & the Mission Band – Cafe Diem, May 22 @ 9pm

Brand New Groovement – Emilio's, May 22 @ 10pm

White Knuckly Battery – Alley Katz, May 22 @ 10pm (w/ Erase the Enemy, Profit of Lies, Karen's Nobel)

Grapefruit Fred – Cary Street Cafe, May 22 @ 10pm

Rocket Queen, A Tribute to G 'n R – Banditos, May 23

Barstool Heroes – The Republic, May 23 @ 3pm

Crucial Pain – Alley Katz, May 23 @ 4pm (w/ The Obscurities, Eyes On Me, Anu, Roma, A Hope Called Disaster)

Lee Nelson band – Legend, May 23 @ 6:30pm

Jennifer Knapp – Canal Club, May 23 @ 7pm (w/ Susan Greenbaum)

Rattlemouth – Balliceaux, May 23 @ 7pm

The Sharp Comfort – The Camel, May 23 @ 8pm

High Energy Corporation – Cary Street Cafe, May 23 @ 10pm

Cannabis Corpse – Strange Matter, May 24 @ 10pm

Homemade Knives – The Michaux House, May 25 @ 8pm (w/ Brown Bird)

Bio Ritmo – Balliceaux, May 25 @ 9pm

Glen Miller Orchestra – Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, May 26

Mayday Parade – Hat Factory, May 26 @ 6pm (w/ A Rocket to the Moon, Sing It Loud, Sparks the Rescue)

Blue Line Highway – Positive Vibe Cafe, May 26 @ 7pm

Make Phantoms – The Camel, May 26 @ 7pm (w/ Reptar, The Horrible Disappointments)

Cy Taggart Trio – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 26 @ 7pm

Fight the Big Bull – Balliceaux, May 26 @ 9:30pm

The Sideshow Tragedy – The Triple, May 26 @ 10pm

Cha-Ching – Emilio's, May 26 @ 10pm (w DJ Williams, Gordon Jones)

Mike Rutz

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    May 19th, 2010

Posted In: Music Shows