Activate!Activate! December 4 – December 11

Get your ears perked and your pencils out, I'm about to give you the lowdown on bands performing live in Richmond within the week. At 7pm, I'll feature tracks from Billy Ray Hatley who will be saluted at an all-star tribute show, Strumpet who have two shows lined up, and Lobo Marino (pictured) who will play their first show back from India, plus previews of JEEB Sound Presents and RVA Hot Sauce!

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Activate! 12-4-13

Daniel Bachman / Perigree Moon / Tompkins Square – Steady Sounds, Dec. 10 @ 6pm

James Tristan Redding / Irony is Not a Type of Metal / diy – Capital Ale House, Dec. 5 @ 6:30pm (w/ Troy Petty)

Molly Parden / Lord Have Mercy / diy – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theatre, Dec. 10 @ 7:30pm (w/ Timbre, Classical Revolution)

Bill Ray Hatley / Mama's Cookin' / Hip Chicken – A Tribute to Billy Ray Hatley, CD Retrospective Release, and Benefit for The Daily Planet / The National, Dec. 8 @ 6pm (w/ Big City, The Showdogs, Robbin Thompson, Steve Bassett, Bill Blue, Mike McAdam of Good Humor Band, Susan Greenbaum, Bruce Olsen, Gayle McGehee, Janet Martin & Mic Muller, Craig Evans & Brad Tucker of The Taters, Lil’ Ronnie Owens, Charles Arthur/Chris Fuller/Jim Skelding of Reckless Abandon, Chuck Wrenn, Junie Carter)

Moon Taxi / Mercury / 12 South – Capital Ale House, Dec. 6 @ 9:30pm (w/ The Shack Band)

Brother Bill / Enough Said / diy – The Camel, Dec. 9 @ 9pm (w/ The Northerners, Strumpet)

Strumpet / Magnolia / diy – The Camel, Dec. 8 @ 9pm (w/ To Be Found, Monacan Hill, Vini Vola, The Concussion Theory)

Anousheh / Say Go / Triple Stamp – The Return of RVA Hot Sauce / Gallery 5, Dec. 8 @ 6:30pm (w/ Photosynthesizers, J.D. Haze, Ohbliv, Radio B, Michael Millions, Noah O, Richmond Comedy Coalition)

Photosynthesizers / Boombaptism / diy

Eliot Lipp / The Outside / Mush – The Camel, Dec. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Eli Cash, Groove Status)

Archnemesis / Mohawk / 1320 – Canal Club, Dec. 7 @ 8pm (w/ Phil Dice, DJ Opie)

Cosby / Tightrope / diy – The National, Dec. 7 @ 6:30pm (w/ Parentheses, Inland Ocean, Imaginary Sons, Matt Jones and the Bobs)

Inland Ocean / Futureman / diy  

Lobo Marino / Crooked Road / diy – Helen's, Dec. 8 @ 8pm (w/ Haints in the Holler, Dear Ghosts, Teach Me Equals)

Teach Me Equals / Swallow the Smoke / diy

Toxic Moxie / Talking Hands / diy – Strange Matter, Dec. 10 @ 9pm (w/ Derek Evry, Bandrew, Phoebe Novak)

Canary Oh Canary / Integrity Among Men / diy – Bandito's, Dec. 8 @ 9pm (w/ The Ar-Kaics)

The Ar-Kaics / She Does Those Things to Me / Speakertree

The Venetia Fair / The Day I Set Them Free / diy – Canal Club, Dec. 5 @ 7pm (w/  Audio Strobelight, Metaphor, Wake the Captive, Monacan Hill)

Gull / Bedouin Lover / Rorschach – Gallery 5, Dec. 6 @ 8pm (w/ Navi, Dumbwaiter)

Dumbwaiter / Indubitably Dumbfounded / diy

Polar Bear Club / See the Wind / Bridge 9 – Strange Matter, Dec. 6 @ 5pm (w/ Citizen, Diamond Youth, Sainthood Reps)

Diamond Youth / Orange / Topshelf

Veara / The Worst Part of You / Epitaph – Kingdom, Dec. 9 @ 6pm (w/ Major League, Stick UP Kid, Broadside, In Courage, First Class Liar)

First Class Liar / Perspective / diy – Benefit for Dylan Coleman / Canal Club, Dec. 8 @ 4pm (w/ Holly Would, Inquiry)

Off With Their Heads / I Am You / No Idea – Strange Matter, Dec. 9 @ 9pm (w/ Morning Glory, Direct Hit!, Close Talker)

Direct Hit! / Decapitation By Shotgun / I Hate Punk Rock

The Deads / Hammer Brothers / diy – Strange Matter, Dec. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Thieves of Shiloh, Daggering, Leo Svirsky)

Demon Eye / Hecate / Soul Seller – Wonderland, Dec. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Fire Faithful)

Everyone Dies In the End / Who are You, Whom I So Faintly Hear? / diy – JEEB Sound Presents / Strange Matter, Dec. 11 @ 9pm (w/ Gondola, Lugweight, Company Corvette, Caves Caverns)

Gondola / Life Cult / diy

Coke Bust / Noone to Impress / Six Weeks – Strange Matter, Dec. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Barge, Unholy Thoughts, Mercenary, Protester)

Unholy Thoughts / Earthquake / Forcefield

Mercenary / No Uniform / Scavenger of Death

Norma Jean / Bayonetwork: Vultures in Vivid Color / Tooth & Nail – Kingdom, Dec. 11 @ 5pm (w/ Vanna, Ken Mode, The Greenery)

Ken MODE / The Romanticist / Season of Mist

Ego Likeness / The Devils In the Chemicals / Metropolis – Fallout, Dec. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Servitor, DJ Skynet)

Bro Safari & UFO! / No Time To Sleep / diy – The National, Dec. 6 @ 8pm (w/ Torro Torro, CRNKN)

Even more shows:

The Kindling Kind – Balliceaux, Dec. 5 @ 9:30pm

Queer Rocket – EP Release / Bainbridge Collective, Dec. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Raw Feels)

The Steel Wheels – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Dec. 7 @ 9:30pm

Eve Cornelious & the Harlem Allstars – Capital Ale House, Dec. 10 @ 7pm

Future Rock – Canal Club, Dec. 11 @ 9pm (w/ Cosby Sweater, Easter Island)

Houdan the Mystic – The Camel, Dec. 11 @ 9pm (w/ Red States, The Absent Center, Classified Frequency)