Activate!Activate! January 4 – January 11

Happy new year folks! If last year was any indication, 2012 will be a banner year for live shows in Richmond. As always, at 7pm I'll preview the upcoming week on Richmond's live music calendar, including a track by Erin Tobey (pictured)! Plus, I'll be kicking off a new feature called Activate! Flashback!, a "do you remember that super-rad show from 2000-whenever?" song of the week. This week will be Des Ark from 2004!

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Activate! 1-4-12

Antero / Do Something / diy – Kingdom, Jan. 7 @ 6:30pm (w/ Gallo Vera, Proverbial)

The Former Champions / 17th Street / diy – Tribute to Brian Nabili / The Camel, Jan. 6 (w/ The Silo Effect)

Near Earth Objects / Colleen I / diy – The Camel, Jan. 12 @ 9pm (w/ The Venture Rays, The Word Brown)

Glows In the Dark / One Against Many / Spacebomb – Balliceaux, Jan. 11 @ 10:30pm (w/ Jason Aljemian & the High Life)

Drew Gibson / Where Did She Go / Cragmont – CD Release / Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 11 @ 7pm (w/ BJ Kocen)

Jonathan Vassar & the Speckled Bird / Think of Me / Triple Stamp – Globehopper, Jan. 9 @ 7pm (w/ The Spinning Leaves)

Herschel Stratego / Hey Ladies, Rob Here, Watch Out! / diy – The Camel, Jan. 7 (w/ Meade Skelton & the Meadow Street Band)

Hunter Wolfe / Hell Hound / diy – CD Release / Capital Ale House, Jan. 7 @ 7pm

The Kindling Kind / Awakening / diy – Current, Jan. 7 @ 9pm (w. Jawa, The Mystery Ship, Crushed Purple)

Sirsy / Hostage / Funzalo – Poe's Pub, Jan. 11 @ 9pm

Erin Tobey / Nebula Song / Plan-It-X – Gallery 5, Jan. 6 @ 6pm (w/ Midair, Greetings)

Midair / Calm Come / diy

Activate! Flashback!: Des Ark / Send Jolly to Raleigh / Exotic Fever – Nanci Raygun, January 7, 2005 (w/ Bella Fea, A New Dawn Fades, Josh Small)

The Dirty Kicks / Bad Feels / diy – Strange Matter, Jan. 10 @ 9pm (w/ Young Adult Fiction)

A Fucking Elephant / Just the Tip / Nefarious Industries – Strange Matter, Jan. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Navi, Tungs, So Is the Tongue)

Tungs / Like / diy – The Camel, Jan. 11 @ 8pm (w/ Nervous Ticks, Paint Fumes, Sportsbar)

Nervous Ticks / I Want You / diy

Paint Fumes / Panic Attack / Slovenly

Sportsbar / Makin' Money / Sweet Dreams – Strange Matter, Jan. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Sweet Tooth, FleshMolt, Bermuda Triangles, Weekends)

Sweet Tooth / Love Song / diy

Weekends / Raingirls / Friends

Spraynard / I'm Gonna Look One More Time for That Baby Deer / Asian Man – Ask a punk, Jan. 9 (w/ Hold Tight!, Sundials, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Signals Midwest)

Hold Tight! / Ready to Go / Death to False Hope

Tenement / The Best and Worst of Times / Toxic Pop – Ask a punk, Jan. 8 (w/ DOC, Coke Bust, Poison Planet, Abyss)

Poison Planet / Border Fences / Refuse

Coke Bust / Noone to Impress / Grave Mistake

This is Your Life / A Well-Needed Cleanse / diy – The Camel, Jan. 5 @ 6pm (w/ In Courage, Balance and Composure, Tigers Jaw, Captain We're Sinking)

Captain We're Sinking / The Ballad of Ichabod Crane / diy

Tigers Jaw / Smile / diy

Mensrea / Collisions / diy – Cory Smoot Memorial & CD Release / Canal Club, Jan. 7 @ 6pm (w/ Dave Brockie Experience/GWAR unmasked, Make Like Murder, Antietam, Cannabis Corpse, Throne From Royalty)

Cannabis Corpse / Sworn to the Bag / Tankcrimes

GWAR / Krosstika / DRT

Buck Gooter / She Sees Only Flowers / Kreephaus – LP Release / Strange Matter, Jan. 8 @ 9pm (w/ La Mere Vipere, Zomes, War Graves)

La Mere Vipere / Second Testament / CNP

AK1200 / You Hear me Talkin' / ffrr – The National, Jan. 6 @ 8pm (w/ J. Rabbit, Helicopter Showdown)