Activate!Activate! April 9 – April 16

There's no stopping the Richmond music scene! For proof, tune into Activate! at 7pm for tunes by Anthony Curtis who provides a soundtrack to "Poems for Dead People," Cosby who are playing a benefit for the Prevent Child Abuse Virginia Organization, Ragged Mountain String Band who play the River City Barn Dance, and Bermuda Triangles (pictured) who play a benefit for the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project. Plus, I will give away tickets to see Black Lips at The National, Amos Lee at Carpenter Theatre, and Pissed Jeans at Strange Matter!

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Activate! 4-9-14

Anthony Curtis (accompanying Ryan Kent reading from "Poems for Dead People") / Inland Sea / diy – Chop Suey Books, April 13 @ 6pm (w/ Ryan Kent, Joe DeLeon, Herschel Stratego)

Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Inner City Blues / Shout Factory – Capital Ale House, April 15 @ 7pm

Jessy Carolina & the Hot Mess / Nobody's Sweetheart / diy – Balliceaux, April 14 @ 9pm

Wild Ponies / Make You Mine / Ditch Dog – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 12 @ 8pm

Ragged Mountain String Band / Fort Smith Breakdown / Shake a Leg – River City Barn Dance / Hardywood, April 12 @ 4pm (w/ Andy Vaughan & the Driveline, Loversville, Ashley McMillan)

Amos Lee / Listen / Blue Note – Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage, April 15 (w/ Mutlu)

Tall Tall Trees / Waiting On the Day / Good Neighbor – The Camel, April 16 (w/ Todd Matthews, Ocean vs. Daughter, Mammoth Indigo)

Lobo Marino / Golden Flea / diy – Helen's, April 13 @ 7pm (w/ School Dance, Lucy Dacus, Marian McLaughlin)

School Dance / Living Room / diy – Gallery 5, April 11 @ 7:30pm (w/ Half Bascule, Kiss Your Brother)

Kiss Your Brother / Champer Damper / diy

The Welcome Hips / Shoreline / diy – Emilio's, April 10 (w/ DJ Hairdresser on Fire)

Cosby / Attican Lights / diy – Benefit for Prevent Child Abuse Virginia Organization / The Camel, April 12 @ 4pm (w/ Highway Saints, Brighter the Moon)

Lightfields / Junior / diy – Gallery 5, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Red States, Houdan the Mystic)

Black Lips / Make You Mine / Vice – The National, April 14 @ 6:30pm (w/ Natural Child)

Natural Child / Ain't Gonna Stop / Burger

Harrison Hudson / Curious / Favorite Gentleman – The Camel, April 15 @ 7pm (w/ Christian Marston, Lions for Dinner)

Modern Baseball / Re-Do / Run for Cover – The National, April 11 @ 6pm (w/ The Wonder Years, Citizen, Real Friends, Fireworks)

Citizen / Drown /  Run For Cover

Max Pain & the Groovies / 1, 2, Yeehaw / Lolipop – Strange Matter, April 12 @ 9pm (w/ Dry Feet, The Milkstains, Campo Formio)

Dry Feet / Pray for Surf / Burger

Mapmaker / Forgetting What It's Like / Salinas – Empire, April 16 @ 10pm (w/ Reconciled World, A Tribute to Operation Ivy)

Deaf Scene / History of Clouds Pt. A / diy – Cary Street Cafe, April 11 @ 10pm (w/ Celtic Panda)

White Fang / Wanna Ride? / Gnar Tapes – Strange Matter, April 16 @ 9pm (w/ Denny & the Jets, Sportsbar, Dwight Howard Johnson)

Denney & the Jets / Bye Bye Queenie / Burger

Bermuda Triangles / R for Real / CNP – Benefit for the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project / Strange Matter, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ Navi, Heavy Midgets, The Hissy Fits)

Navi / Unicorn Holocaust / diy

Good Throb / Crab Walk / diy – Steady Sounds, April 14 @ 5pm (w/ Priests, Christi)

Priests / Right Wing / Don Giovanni

Skullkid / Princess Geometra & Origami Castle / diy  – Ask a punk, April 11 @ 7pm (w/ Page of Concrete, The Heads are Zeros, Soft Time)

Violent Reaction / Riot / Hemlock 13 – Strange Matter, April 13 @ 5pm (w/ The Flex, Hard Stripes, WarXGames, Suicide Watch)

The Flex / Left to Die / Video Disease

Pissed Jeans / Bathroom Laughter / Sub Pop – Strange Matter, April 11 @ 9pm (w/ Hex Machine, Slugz, Daggering, DJ Marty Violence)

Slugz / Sick as a Dog / Feel It

Hex Machine / Chub / Learning Curve

Satan / Trial By Fire / Neat – Strange Matter, April 15 @ 8pm (w/ Salvacion, Bat, Volture)

Volture / Desert Pursuit / HR

Cove / Friendship / diy – Strange Matter, April 12 @ 5pm (w/ Daisyhead, Nest, Freaky J & the Bears)

John Weise / End Mill / PPM – Sediment Arts, April 11 @ 8pm (w/ Broadcastatic, IGM)

Future Rock / Majestic / 1320 – Canal Club, April 12 @ 9pm (w/ The Manhatten Project, Groove Status, Eskmo)

Even more shows:

Gamelan Raga Kasuma – Balliceaux, April 10 @ 8pm

Michaela Anne – Ask around, April 11 (w/ The Green Boys)

People's Blues of Richmond – The Camel, April 11 @ 9pm (w/ The Shack Band)

David Mallett and George Turman – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, April 12 @ 8pm

Kyle Kinane – Strange Matter, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Steve Howze, Jesse Jarvis)

Eli Conley – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 16 @ 8pm (w/ The Campbell Family Band)