Activate! May 21 - May 28 presents:

Activate!Activate! May 21 – May 28

Tonight at 7pm, I have a very special treat as Glasgow garage-pop trio PAWS (pictured) stop through the WRIR studios to play an extended live set before their gig at Strange Matter! Plus, your weekly preview of Richmond's live music scene.

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ACTIVATE! 5-21-14

Pimps of Joytime / Janxta Funk / Wonderwheel – Canal Club, May 22 @ 9pm (w/ Proverbial)

Orgone / Deuce In the Hole / Ubiquity – The Camel, May 27 (w/ The Flavor Project)

PAWS LIVE IN WRIR STUDIOS – Strange Matter, May 21 @ 5pm (w/ Positive No, Herro Sugar)

PAWS – Tongues

PAWS – Give Up

PAWS – An Honest Romance

PAWS – Owls Talons Clenching My Heart

PAWS – Erruer Humane

PAWS – Get Bent

PAWS – Someone New

PAWS – War Cry

Sweet Fern / Single Girl / diy – Twangtown Thursdays / Balliceaux, May 22 @ 9:30pm (w/ The Vendors)

Chatham County Line / Should Have Known / Yep Roc – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 24 @ 8pm

No BS@ Brass Band / RVA All Day / diy – The Camel, May 23 @ 9pm (w/ Murphy’s Kids, Those Manic Seas)

Murphy’s Kids / Dusty Trail / Community

Tauk / In the Basement of the Alamo / diy – The Camel, May 22 @ 7pm (w/ DJ Williams Projekt)

Oumar Konate / Laissez / diy – Balliceaux, May 24 @ 10pm (w/ DJ Greybeard)

Teach Me Equals / Dictionary of Imaginary Places / diy – Silent Music Revival / 13ainbridge Collective, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ Half Bascule)

Softspot / You-Yours / diy – Strange Matter, May 28 @ 9pm (w/ School Dance, Ocean vs. Daughter, Lotus Grid)

Avers / White Horses / diy – Friday Cheers / Brown’s Island, May 23 @ 6pm (w/ Todd Herrington’s Things, The Green Boys)

Fight Cloud / Crime is Contagious / diy – Gallery 5, May 27 (w/ Houdan the Mystic)

The Trillions / ICCB / diy – RVA Playlist Birthday Party / The Camel, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ Vexine, My Darling Fury)

The Strange Times / Firing / diy – The Camel, May 26 @ 7pm (w/ Red States, The Killing Daylights, Release the Hounds)

Swank Sinatra / Collection Plate / Blood Drunk – En Su Boca, May 22 @ 10pm (w/ Tungs, Night Idea, R_Garcia Band)

The Gospel / Clock Hands Radio / diy – Wonderland, May 23 @ 9pm (w/ Karbomb, Seagulls)

Seagulls / Close One / Autumn + Colour

Sea of Storms / A Crimson Tide / diy – Empire, May 26 @ 9pm (w/ Lyra, Missives)

Lyra / Easy Answers / diy

Young Widows / King Sol / Temporary Residence – Strange Matter, May 22 @ 9pm (w/ Helms Alee, Hex Machine)

Nuclear Santa Claust / Christopher Columbus / Don Giovanni – Empire, May 24 @ 10pm (w/ Diamond Hairbrush)

Extinction of Mankind / Without Consent / AgiPunk – Strange Matter, May 26 @ 8pm (w/ Warmaster, Asylum, Atrocious Kontrol, Occultist)

Particle / The Elevator / Or – Canal Club, May 23 @ 8pm (w/  Mekong Xpress & The Get Fresh Horns, DJ Phil Dice, Agent)

Even more shows:

The Kruger Brothers – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 23 @ 8pm

Black Girls – Balliceaux, May 23 @ 10pm

Travelin' Hillbillies – Capital Ale House, May 23 @ 10pm

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline – Hardywood, May 24 @ 5:30pm

Battleghost – Canal Club, May 24 @ 6pm (w/ Count To Four, In Courage, Centerfolds, First Class Liar, A Collegiate Affair)

Everything is Terrible! Live – Strange Matter, May 24 @ 6pm

Spencer Joyce & The Record Machine Dreamers – McCormack's, May 24 (w/ Monacan Hill, Minimum Balance)

Stone Jack Jones – Strange Matter, May 24 @ 9pm (w/ Coupler, Lylas)

The Vendors – Cary Street Café, May 24 @ 10pm

Lord Nelson – The Camel, May 25 @ 7pm (w/ Nefarious Character)

Zombie XXX – Bandito’s, May 25 @ 9pm

Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 28 @ 8pm

Mike Rutz

Playlist:

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    May 21st, 2014

Posted In: Music Shows