Activate!Activate! April 20 – April 27

At 7pm, I'm mapping out the live shows you can see this week in Richmond, all you have to do is choose. One select choice is the record release show for The Diamond Center (pictured), happening at Gallery 5's sixth anniversary party!

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ACTIVATE! 4-20-11

Landsquid / The Ancient Dragon / Abstract Logic – The Camel, April 24 @ 8pm (w/ Pericles, Akasha)

Mason Porter / Up In the Hills / diy – Cary Street Cafe, April 23 @ 10pm

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge / Border Ride / diy – Capital Ale House, April 22 @ 10pm

Stephen Kellogg / 4th of July / Vanguard – Capital Ale House, April 23 @ 9pm (w/ Tift Merritt)

Iron & Wine / Serpent Charmer / Sub Pop – The National, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ The Low Anthem)

Lucinda Black Bear / Suffocation Blues / Eastern Spurs – Sprout, April 21 @ 10pm (w/ Cole Sullivan, Busman's Holiday)

Fuzzy Baby / Sigh / diy – Silent Music Revival / Gallery 5, April 24 @ 7:30pm

Dave Hause (of The Loved Ones) / Prague, Revive Me / Paper + Plastick – Gallery 5, April 26 @ 7pm (w/ Mikey Erg, Ian Graham, Sundials)

Jim Ivins Band / Twilight / diy – The National, April 23 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Greater the Risk, Race the Sun, View From the Top, Chuck Shaffer Picture Show)

Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade / Central Tendencies / diy – Richmond Earth Day Festival, April 23 @ 12 Noon – 7pm (w/ Rattlemouth, Black Girls, Amazing Ghost, Horsehead, Emily Wilson, Peopkle's Key, Six, Blue Line Highway, Pam McCarthy, Acoustic River Rats, Greg Allen, Pretty Fun Time, E-String Al)

Rattlemouth / Caballo Viejo / diy – Crossroads Coffee, April 22 @ 8pm

Amazing Ghost / VCU Ram Jam / diy

Yacht / Summer Song / DFA – The National, April 24 @ 7pm (w/ Bobby Birdman)

The Diamond Center / 20Twin / Someday This Will All Make Sense – Record Release / Gallery 5, April 23 @ 7pm (w/ Canary oh Canary, Nervous Ticks, Black Girls)

Nervous Ticks / Come Clean / diy – Alley Katz, April 22 @ 10pm (w/ Dammit Matthew Dammit, The Skatter Brain, Boats, T-Division)

T-Division / PBRVA / diy

Of Montreal / Coquet Coquette / Polyvinyl – The National, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ Painted Palms)

Painted Palms / Al of Us / Polyvinyl

Sick Sick Birds / Your Machine / Toxic Pop – BP, April 22 @ 7pm (w/ Marvin Berry & the New Sound, Nude Beach, Remain, Family Cat)

Nude Beach / Skeleton Handshake / diy – Steady Sounds, April 22 (w/ Marvin Berry & the New Sound)

Go Rydell / The Golden Age / Black Numbers – Rock Garden, April 25 @ 7pm (w/ Protagonist, This is Your Life, Quiet the Trees)

This is Your Life / Highs and Lows of Basement Shows / diy

Amps for Christ / Cycles of Entworth / 5 Rue Christine – Strange Matter, April 24 @ 9pm (w/ Ghost Box Orchestra, Tate House, Head Molt, Frailty of Angels)

Ghost Box Orchstra / The Only Light On / diy

Davila 666 / Mala / In the Red – Strange Matter, April 25 @ 9pm (w/ Lost Tribe, Caves Caverns, Southside Stranglers)

Lost Tribe / The Laughter / diy

Syndrome / The Aftermath / Desolate Legacy – Strange Matter, April 21 @ 9pm (w/ No Tomorrow, Soma, Dodsfalla)

Up for Nothing / Rob the Minister / Winter Street – Rock Garden, April 23 @ 7pm (w/ Step Aside, American Ruins, Wrist Rocket)

Bermuda Triangles / Reptilian Intervention / CNP – Strange Matter, April 26 @ 9pm (w/ Flesh Control, Dumb Lunch)

Worn In Red / Resigned Not Resigning / No Idea – Bellytimber, April 23 (w/ Constrictor, Equestrians)

Constrictor / Blade / diy

The Plot In You / Superbeast / Rise – Alley Katz, April 23 @ 5pm (w/ Scarlett O'Hara, Ten After Two, The Air I Breathe, Lions! Tigers! Bears!)

Angelspit / Let Them Eat Distortion / Metropolis – Fallout, April 22 @ 9pm (w/ XuberX, Machanikill)

J. Rabbit / Ninja Gaiden / Play Me – Dub Nation / Canal Club, April 23 @ 9pm (w/ Mike Phear, Bare, Kimsey)