Activate!Activate! March 30 – April 6

Another week of sweet live shows is ahead of us and your preview starts at 7pm. I have tickets to give away to Explosions In the Sky AND a live acoustic performance from singer-songwriter BJ Kocen (pictured).

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ACTIVATE! 3-30-11

Evelyn Glennie / Mexican Dance for Marimba No. 1 / diy – Carpenter Theatre, April 2 @ 8pm

John McCutcheon / Cultiva Una Rosa Blanca / Appalsongs – Shady Grove Coffeehousae, April 3 @ 6pm

The Hot Seats / Betsy Likens / diy – The Camel, April 2 @ 8pm (w/ The Green Boys, Johnson's Crossroad)

Johnson's Crossroad / Left Behind / diy

Eddie Spaghetti / Never Thought I Would / Bloodshot – Capital Ale House, March 31 @ 9pm

BJ Kocen LIVE IN WRIR STUDIOS – GayRVA Live / The Camel, April 4 @ 7pm (w/ T. Soul, DJ Amy Alderman)

Richmond Engine #3, a Tribute to Primus / Jon the Fisherman / live on WRIR – The National, April 2 @ 8pm (w/ Limelight, A Tribute to Rush)

The Extraordinaires / The Arsonist / Punk Rock Payroll – Sprout, April 4 @ 10pm (w/ Hold Tight!, Young Adult Fiction)

Guggenheim Grotto / Girl With the Cards / Shellac – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 2 @ 8pm

James Wallace and the Naked Light / To the River / diy – Balliceaux, April 2 @ 10pm

Peter Murphy / I Spit Roses / Nettwerk – The National, March 31 @ 7pm (w/ Livian)

Sleeping In the Aviary / You Don't Have to Drive / Science of Sound – Strange Matter, April 5 @ 9pm (w/ Everybody Yay, Climbers, Bib-bi)

Climbers / Firehead / diy

Explosions In the Sky / Have You Passed Through This Night? / Temporary Residence – The National, April 4 @ 7pm (w/ The Octopus Project)

The Octopus Project / Fuguefat / Peek-a-Boo

The Two Funerals / No! / diy – Rorschach Records 5th Anniversary / Steady Sounds, April 3 @ 3pm (w/ Gull)

Aaron Omen / My Corpse Bride / Omenology Ltd. – Wonderland, April 1 @ 9pm (w/ Low On Sanity, Point Blank)

Spanish Gamble / Can I Live? / Paper + Plastick – Empire, April 6 @ 9pm (w/ Landmines, White Wives)

Total Wreck / Total Wreck / Absent – Strange Matter, April 6 @ 10pm (w/ File 13, Defect Defect)

Crooked Teeth / Yellow / diy – Brunswick, April 4 (w/ Neo Cons, Southside Stranglers)

Capsule / Small Caps / Rorschach – Strange Matter, march 31 @ 10pm (w/ The Catalyst, Nimbus Terrifix, Backslider, Balaclava, The Catalyst)

The Catalyst / Lars Ulrich's 1986 Funeral / Perpetual Motion Machine

Heathens / Victory / Last Anthem – Record Release / Strange Matter, April 4 @ 9pm (w/ White Cross, Inter Arma, Black Breath, Dry Spell, KEN Mode)

White Cross / Didn't See It Coming / diy

KEN Mode / The Romanticist / Esacpe Artist

H20 / Nothing to Prove / Bridge Nine – United Blood Festival / Canal Club, April 1 @ 3pm (w/ Born Low, Dry Spell, Heathens, Soul Search, Minority Unit, Piece by Piece, Swamp Thing, Dead End Path, Backtrack, Naysayer, Foundation, Death Threat, Down To Nothing)

Down to Nothing / My Disguise / Revelation

Underdog / Not Like You / Bridge 9 – United Blood Festival / Canal Club, April 2 @ 1pm (w/ Lockdown, Mindset, No Values, Take Offense, Sub Scum, United Youth-Stick Together, Rotting Out, Rival Mob, Mother of Mercy, Alpha and Omega, Fire & Ice, Maximum Penalty, Cold World, Terror)

Terror / Push It Away / Bridge 9

Woe / Alone With Our Failures / Candlelight – Strange Matter, April 2 @ 10pm (w/ battlemaster, Whithered)

Battlemaster / Intelligencer / Forcefield

Mindless Faith / Eight Times / Metropolis – Fallout, March 31 @ 9pm (w/ Worms Of the Earth, DJ Bioread)

The Insiders / True to the Cause / Intrigue Music – PUSH / Godfrey's, March 31 @ 10pm