Activate!Activate! March 21 – March 28

 

Tonight's show at is jam-packed with awesomeness. First off, Paris-via-Richmond musician Malhombre (pictured) will join me in the WRIR studios for an acoustic performance. Then, I have have tickets to give away to 3 big shows – Buckethead at The National, DRI at Kingdom, and Trivium at The National!

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Activate! 3/21/12

Many Arms / Presentation / Tzadik – The Camel, March 26 @ 9pm (w/ SCUO)

Kurt Vile & the Violaters / Monkey / Matador – Strange Matter, March 23 @ 5pm (w/ Supreme Dicks, Sore Eros)

Sore Eros / Giraffe's Kiss / shdwply

Suckers / Turn On the Sunshine / Frenchkiss – The Camel, March 22 @ 8pm (w/ Dead Fame, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead)

Dead Fame / Turning / diy

Malhombre LIVE IN WRIR STUDIOS – Globehopper Coffeehouse, March 22 @ 6pm

Quango Almo / Blind / diy – The Camel, March 27 @ 9pm (w/ The Singer-Songwriter Series)

Sonnymoon / Bungee / Plug – Balliceaux, March 25 @ 9pm (w/ Teebs, Time Wharp, Shlomo, Ohbliv)

Teebs / Just For You / Brainfeeder

Canary oh Canary / Face In a Magazine / diy – Bandito's, March 25 @ 8pm (w/ Mutwawa)

The Beautiful View / The Horseman / Requiemme – Strange Matter, March 26 @ 5pm (w/ Navi, Midair, Heavy Midgets)

Electric Eeel Shock / Rock and Roll Can Save the World / Bitzcore – Strange Matter, March 23 @ 9pm (w/ Hotchacha, Eurotics, Double Rainbow)

Hotchacha / Pleasure Cruise / Exit Stencil

The Milkstains / Sand Rash / diy – Emilio's, March 24 @ 9pm (w/ Boney Loner, The Lonely Teardrops)

Buckethead / Music Box Innards / Tzadik – The National, March 24 @ 7pm (w/ That 1 Guy, Wolff & Tuba)

Wolff & Tuba / Stand Up / diy

The Diamond Center / Hard Rain / diy – Record Release / Steady Sounds, March 25 @ 6pm (w/ casper & the Cookies)

The Protomen / Unrest In the House of Light / diy – Kingdom, March 27 @ 6pm

Swearin' / Crashing / diy – HA, March 23 @ 7pm (w/ Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Cheyenne, Just Friends)

Grass is Green / Nice Guy Of the Year Award / GHouse – Strange Matter, March 25 @ 5pm (w/ Comrades, Small Steps, Historic)

Comrades / Lend Me Your Heart / Motherland Collective

Speedwolf / Out on Bail / Hells Headbangers – Strange Matter, March 25 @ 9pm (w/ Swan King, Gnawed, Battlemaster)

Mutilation Rites / Hell Arise / Forcefield – Wonderland, March 22 @ 9pm (w/ Hull, Degeneracy, Triac)

DRI / Do the Dream / Metal Blade – Kingdom, March 28 @ 7pm (w/ Troops of Death, Southside Stranglers, Dry Spell, Time Never Wasted)

Southside Stranglers / Don't Love You / Grave Mistake

Comeback Kid / Wake the Dead / Victory – Kingdom, March 25 @ 6pm (w/ Foundation, Such Gold, Living With Lions, Cowbunga)

Such Gold / Gut Rot / 6131

Trivium / Ignition / Roadrunner – The National, March 25 @ 5pm (w/ Asking Alexandria, I See Stars, Motionless in White, The Amity Affliction)

A Storm of Light / Mass / Profound Lore – Strange Matter, March 22 @ 9pm (w/ Al Kafir, Mustard Gas & Roses)

Deafheaven / Daedalus / diy – Strange Matter, March 27 @ 9pm (w/ Alcest, Dark Sea Dream)

Contortionaist Jazz Exotics / So long Bathroom Fan / diy – Strange Matter, March 24 @ 11pm (w/ Floodbeast, Country, Champagne of Rats, Tate House)

The Green Boys – Balliceaux, March 22 @ 10pm

The Beer Ticks / Run Mountain / diy – The Camel, March 23 @ 6pm

Sons of Bill – Capital Ale House, March 24 @ 9pm

Scattered, Smothered, & Covered – Legend, March 25 @ 6:30pm