Activate!Activate! June 16 – June 23

The website is back! And, we're right in the middle of Activate!, Richmond's concert calendar for your ears.

One of the bands I'll be playing is the reunited Fun Size, who are playing a benefit for Dan Duggins this Friday at Strange Matter. 

Click on "read more" for the show list / playlist. Click here for the podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/43511

Activate! 6-16-10

Buckwheat Zydeco / Out On the Town / Tomorrow – Capital Ale House, June 18 @ 10p

Bianca Merkely w/ Naomi Steckman / The Canvas / diy – Harmony for Healing benefit / Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 19 @ 8pm (w/ Jackie Frost, Sheryl Warner, Libby Dunton, BJ Kocen

Jackie Frost & Sheryl Warner / The Highway Kind / diy

George Taylor / Carry Me Back / diy – Current (at Hat Factory), June 18 @ 7pm

Back Row Baptists / Wood & Steel / Vintage Earth Music – The Triple, June 23 @ 10pm (w/ Matt Woods)

Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade / Central Tendencies / diy – Plaza Bowl, June 19 @ 8pm (w/ Magnificent Bastards, Wynn Walent)

Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat / Up On a Mountain / live – The Camel, June 20 @ 8pm (w/ The Honey Cutters, Jonathan Vassar & the Speckled Bird)

The Honeycutters / Waitin' In the Morning / diy

A Good Natured Riot / Bushwacked / diy – Legend, June 19 @ 8pm

Frankzig & the Music Club / Montanacaballo / diy – The Listening Room / The Michaux House, June 22 @ 7:30pm (w/ Orioles, Dean Lee)

Rattlemouth/ Between Frames / diy – Bogart's, June 18 @ 9pm (w/ Roger Carroll); Cafe Diem, June 23 @ 9pm

Elby Brass / King's Got His Crown Back / – The Triple, June 18 @ 10pm (w/ Palominos)

The Baker Family Band / On the Contrary / diy – The Camel, June 19 @ 7pm (w/ Midair, Young Adult Fiction)

Paleface / A Cheatin' Song / Ramseur – The Triple, June 17 @ 10pm (w/ Mama Bad Mouth, Ophelia)

The Ethnographers / Fine and Dandelion / diy – The Camel, June 17 @ 7pm (w/ Rapture Indeed)

The Late Virginia Summers / NY 104 Headed West / Harding Street Assembly Lab – Ghostprint Gallery, June 20 @ 8pm (w/ White Laces)

White Laces / Motorik Twilight / Harding Street Assembly Lab – New York Deli, June 19 @ 10pm (w/ No Richmond DJs)

Herschel Stratego / Hey Ladies, Rob Here, Watch Out! / diy – Summer Solstice Island Power Jam, June 19 @ 1pm (w/ Hot Lava, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, The Diamond Center, Nervous Ticks, Tyrannosaurus Awesome, The Color Kittens, Cubbyhole)

The Color Kittens / I Don't Want to Take ut the Trash / diy

Hot Lava (last show) / Mummy Beach / Bar None – Strange Matter, June 19 @ 9pm (w/ Eternal Summers, Sad Cobras, Family Trees)

People's Blues of Richmond / Well Well / diy – CD Release / The Camel, June 19 @ 8pm (w/ Bad Noise, Ellipsis)

Silversun Pickups / Well Thought Out Twinkles / Dangerbird – The National, June 21 @ 8pm (w/ Against Me!, Henry Claypeople)

Against Me! / Pints of Guinness Make You Strong / No Idea

Fun Size / Pickle / Fueled By Ramen – Benefit for Dan Duggins / Strange Matter, June 18 @ 9pm (w/ SAU, Submerge)

Submerge / A Million Pennies / Action Driver

SAU / Track 2 / diy

The Glory / For Days / Oi! – Plaza Bowl, June 21 @ 8pm (w/ Point Blank, The Loose Skrews)

Useless Eaters / Death View / Goner – Strange Matter, June 21 @ 8pm (w/ The Shirks, Ladies)

The Mezingers / Lesson In the Abuse of Information Tech / Red Scare – The Camel, June 22 @ 7pm (w/ Hold Tight!, Landmines, Soul Control)

Soul Control / Beyond Words / Bridge 9

The Catalyst / Lars Ulrich's 1986 Funeral / Perpetual Motion Machine – The Camel, June 23 @ 7pm (w/ PALA, Fair Root, The Black Powder, Suis la Lune)

Suis la Lune / September Gave Us Awkwardness, October Gave Me Nothing / Fasaden

Corrosion of Conformity / Vote with a Bullet / Relativity – Canal Club, June 18 @ 7pm (w/ Age of Despair, Point Blank, Lord By Fire)

Counterspark / Track 1 / Resting Bell – Reference Gallery, June 18 @ 8pm (w/ Feralcatscan, Slow News Day)

Other shows (by date)

The Krayolas w/ the West Side Horns – VMFA, June 17 @ 6pm

Zappa Plays Zappa – Groovin' In the Garden / Lewis Ginter, June 17 @ 7pm (w/ The Former Champions)

Blueskyreality – Canal Club, June 17 @ 7pm (w/ The Greater the Risk, Sovatone, Jim Ivins Band)

Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 17 @ 8pm

Faculty Lounge Lizards – Dogwood Dell, June 17 @ 8pm

Quatro na Bossa – Balliceaux, June 17 @ 9:30pm

Amazing Ghost – Balliceaux, June 17 @ 9:30p

Emma Hearn Project – Emilio's, June 17 @ 1pm

The Rebirth presents Style Wars – The Camel, June 17 @ 11pm

Southsidas – Capital Ale House, June 18 @ 5pm

This or the Apocalypse – Plan 9 Music, June 18 @ 7pm

Deer Tick – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, June 18 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Former Champions)

Lara Herscovitch – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 18 @ 8pm

Sharon North – Dogwood Dell, June 18 @ 8pm

Oregon Hill Funk Allstars – The Camel, June 18 @ 8pm

The Delvers – Legend, June 18 @ 8pm

Shawn Colvin – The National, June 18 @ 8:30pm

Rob Williams & Friends – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, June 18 @ 9pm

The Dirty Truth – The Playing Field, June 18 @ 9pm

The Velvet Marias – Hometeam Grill, June 18 @ 9:30pm

Galactic Superstars – Poe's Pub, June 18 @ 9:30pm

Antero – Gibson's Grill, June 18 @ 10pm

Crucial Elements – Cary Street Cafe, June 18 @ 10pm

No Richmond – Balliceaux, June 18 @ 11pm

Amy Grant – Richmond International Raceway, June 19 @ 6pm (w/ Meredith Andrews, MercyMe, Shenandoah)

Loversville – Ellwood's Coffee, June 19 @ 7pm

Father of XII – CD Release / Canal Club, June 19 @ 7pm (w/ Madeline Haze, Funksion, Before the Machine, Medusa Switch, West Hampton City)

KOS – Dogwood Dell, June 19 @ 8pm

Bouncing Betties Burlesque – Gallery 5, June 19 @ 8pm

A Prophet of Lies – The National, June 19 @ 8pm (w/ Torturepoint, Gorasite, Angelus, Behelmod)

MoDebree – Shenanigans, June 19 @ 8:30pm

B-Side Electric Blues Band – The Playing Field, June 19 @ 9pm

Bollywood Night – Hat Factory, June 19 @ 9pm

The Big Guys – Cafe Diem, June 19 @ 9pm

The Bush League – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, June 19 @ 9pm

J3 Project – City Dogs, June 19 @ 10pm

Savage Jazz – Bogart's, June 19 @ 10pm

King Solomon's Marbles – Cary Street Cafe, June 19 @ 10pm

Brand New Groovement – Emilio's, June 19 @ 10pm

Soulpower – Balliceaux, June 19 @ 11pm

Cherry Bomb – Cous Cous, June 19 @ 11pm

Love & Reverie – Plaza Bowl, June 20 @ 3pm (w/ Since 1913, Lights Resolve, Harvard, Crunk Budder, Empires, Vessel, Blood of the Martyrs, Facing Heights, The Relentless, The Most Convenient)

Yolanda Adams – Landmark Theater, June 20 @ 6pm

Big Boss Combo – Legend, June 20 @ 6:30pm

Flight to Athena – Canal Club, June 20 @ 6pm (w/ Ghandis Gunmen, District Kids, Hello Conductor, The Onset)

Connor Thompson & Christopher Norred – Bogart's, June 20 @ 7pm

Herbal Circle – Cary Street Cafe, June 20 @ 9pm

Wade Reynolds – Commercial taphouse, June 20 @ 9pm

Misstallica – Hat Factory, June 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ Little Ozzy)

DJ Doddie – Balliceaux, June 21 @ 9:30pm

Deas Veil – Canal Club, June 22 @ 6:30pm (w/ O'Brother, Gills & Wings, Kids Kids Kids)

Tift Merrit – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 22 @ 8pm

A Night of Malaysian Pop w/ DJ Carlito – Balliceaux, June 22 @ 9:30pm

Earth, Wind, and Fire – Innsbrook Pavilion, June 23 @ 6pm

The Texas Sapphires – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 23 @ 8pm

Fight the Big Bull – Balliceaux, June 23 @ 9:30pm

World Jam Club – Emilio's, June 23 @ 10pm