Activate!Activate!: Spring Fund Drive edition

Yay, I'm pumped! Not only is Richmond hosting some killer live shows this week, but it's also our 2012 Spring Fund Drive. Tonight at 7pm, I'll be asking for your donations in support of the best friggin' radio station in town. In return, you could possibly walk away with tickets to The Head and the Heart or a Local Music stash. As always, you'll receive incredible, creative, volunteer-driven radio and everyone who tunes in will get to hear a live in-studio set from the Janet Martin Band (pictured)!

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Activate! 3/7/12

Miss Tess & the Bonton Parade / I Don't Need that Man / diy – Balliceaux, March 8 @ 10pm

Lobo Marino / Then once, I Started Smoking / diy – The Camel, March 11 @ 8pm (w/ A Murder of One)

Ellis Paul / Heaven's Wherever You Are / Black Wolf – Shady Grove Coffee House, March 10 @ 8pm

The Black Lillies / Two Hearts Down / diy – Capital Ale House, March 9 @ 10pm

Sweet Fern / Single Girl  / diy – Crossroads, March 9 @ 8pm; Globehopper, March 12 @ 7pm (w/ Moral Puppetry)

Janet Martin Band LIVE IN WRIR STUDIOS

Lotus / The Surf / Sci Fidelity – The National, March 10 @ 8pm (w/ The Malah)

Now Sleepyhead / Byrd Park / Exotic Fever – The Camel, March 8 @ 6:30pm (w/ Emily Peal)

Delicate Steve / Butterfly / Luaka Bop – Strange Matter, March 9 @ 9pm (w/ Rattlemouth, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, DJ Rattan, DJ Greybeard)

Victor Villarreal / Enters / Joyful Noise – Strange Matter, March 11 @ 9pm (w/ Night Fruit, Cheyenne, Boas)

Neon Indian / Polish Girl / Mom & Pop – The National, March 8 @ 6:30pm

The Lemonheads / It's a Shame About Ray / Atlantic – Canal Club, March 9 @ 7:30pm (w/ The Vacant Stairs, The Shining Twins)

We Were Pirates / Misery / diy – Current, March 10 (w/ The Fire Tapes, The Mean Ideas)

The Absent Center / In the Valley / Ontology – The Republic, March 10 @ 8pm (w/ The Fooligans, Those Manic Seas)

The Suzan / Come Come / Fool's Gold – The Camel, March 12 @ 8pm (w/ Heavy Midgets, Digging Up Virgins)

Valerian Swing / Pleng / Magic Bullet – Strange Matter, March 11 @ 5pm (w/ Night Idea, Time Columns, Herro Sugar)

Tereu Tereu / The Skeptic / diy – The Nile, March 8 @ 9pm (w/ Tyrannosaurus Awesome, Moonlight Bride)

Jane's Addiction / Stop / Warner – The National, March 9 @ 7pm (w/ Black Box Revelation)

The Clippers / Wildflower / diy – HA, March 9 @ 8pm (w/ Dial Up, Basmati, Freaky J & the Bears, Jabroni)

Cheap Girls / Through to Me / Rise – The Camel, March 10 @ 8pm (w/ The Sidekicks, Rob Huddleston & the Foundation)

The Sidekicks / I Burned the Crops / Red Scare

The Men / Bataille / Sacred Bones – Strange Matter, March 8 @ 6pm (w/ Lost Tribe, Hoax Hunters)

Lost Tribe / Listless Minds / Distort Reality

The Catalyst / Lars Ulrich's 1986 Funeral / Perpetual Motion Machine – Bandito's, March 11 @ 9pm (w/ Hex Machine)

Fixtures / House of the Silver Wedding / diy – Strange Matter, March 9 @ 5pm (w/ Meek is Murder, Historic, Tiger Flowers)

Toxic Holocaust / Nuke the Cross / Relapse – Strange Matter, March 13 @ 7pm (w/ T, Iron Reagan, Dry Spell, Occultist)

Teqtroniqa / Apparitions / diy – Strange Matter, March 12 @ 5pm (w/ Mammals, Love Like Virtue)

Scott Kelly – Strange Matter, March 8 @ 9pm (w/ Ben Hogg, Eugene Robinson)

River City Band – Beers & Banjos / The Camel, March 9 @ 6pm

Terror – Kingdom, March 11 @ 6pm (w/ Born Annoying, Friend or Foe, King 9, Dead and Dreaming)

Flechette – HA, March 14 @ 7pm (w/ Born Without Bones, Wrist Rocket, Missives)

Proverbial – Balliceaux, March 14 @ 10pm