Activate!Activate! April 9 – April 16

Turn on Activate! at 5pm and you'll hear a variety of options for checking out live music this week in Richmond, including a song from The Ar-Kaics (pictured). Plus, I'll give you the chance to see some shows for free, including Ex Hex at The Southern, Gov't Mule at Pocahontas Live, and Whirr / Wildhoney at Strange Matter!

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ACTIVATE! 4-9-15

Hiss Golden Messenger / Mahogany Dread / Merge – The Broadberry, April 15 @ 7pm (w/ Natalie Prass)

Big Lazy / Skinless Boneless / Tasankee – Plan 9, April 11 @ 2pm; James River Film Festival / Gallery 5, April 11

Tim Reynolds & TR3 / Something Nasty / diy – Capital Ale House, April 16 @ 8pm

Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires / The Company Man / Sub Pop – Strange Matter, April 13 @ 9pm (w/ Horsehead, International Friendly, Industry Standard)

International Friendly / More the Same / diy

Gov't Mule / Funny Little Tragedy / Blue Note – Pocahontas Live, April 10 @ 5:30pm

Nelly Kate / Wing By Wing / diy – Hardywood, April 11 @ 5pm (w/ Dave Watkins, Gull, Nervous Ticks)

DJP and MrT / Fists Up / diy – Strange Matter, April 15 @ 9pm (w/ Victor Villareal, Seamonster, League of Space Pirates)

Victor Villareal / Enters / Joyful Noise

Joel Michael Howard / Low / diy – Strange Matter, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ Cameron Stenger, Antiphons, Nevin Kight)

Matthew E. White / Rock & Roll Is Cold / Domino – The Broadberry, April 11 @ 7pm

Girls Guns and Glory / Honky Tonk Blues / Lonesome Day – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 10 @ 8pm

Friend Roulette / Rocket Dog / Goodnight – Balliceaux, April 16 @ 10pm (w/ Houdan the Mystic)

Whirr / Lines / Graveface – Strange Matter, April 12 @ 5pm (w/ Adventures, Wildhoney, Keep)

Wildhoney / Soft Bats / Photobooth

Beex / He Obliterates Me / Wasp – Emilio's, April 11 @ 8:30pm (w/ Bucket, Jimmy Catlett, Lucky Stiffs, British Steel, Iggy Plop)

The Othermen / You Sandwich / Killer Diller – Wonderland, April 10 @ 9pm (w/ Lonely Teardrops, Churchbats)

Church Bats / Get Upset / diy

Las Rosas / Black Cherry / Burger – Strange Matter, April 16 @ 9pm (w/ Avers, Hot Dolphin)

Daddy Long Legs / Death Train Blues / Norton – Wonderland, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Hellhounds, Ar-Kaics)

The Ar-Kaics / Be Nice / Windian

The London Souls / All Tied Down – The Camel, April 16 @ 7pm (w/ The Trongone Band)

Ex-Hex / You Fell Apart / Merge – The Southern in Charlottesville, April 16 @ 7pm (w/ Y'all)

Sports Bar / The Void / diy – En Su Boca, April 13 @ 10pm (w/ Bare Thoughts, Divers)

Divers / Blood Song / Rumbletowne

Family Bike / Idiot Boy / Negative Fun – Circle Thrift, April 11

Suicidas / Mentiras / Metadona – 25 Watt, April 13 @ 9pm (w/ Shadow Age, Nocere)

Vaaska / Policia Policia / Beach Impediment – Strange Matter, April 12 @ 9pm (w/ Hard Stripes, Ajax, Asylum, Red Death)

Hard Stripes / Pollution / Grave Mistake – Strange Matter, April 13 @ 5pm (w/ Holy Land, Fury, Reactor 4, Unified Right)

Holy Land / It's Funny / diy

Ramming Speed / Volture's Prey / Prosthetic – Gallery 5, April 16 @ 7pm (w/ Vorater, Glorious Gone, Triac)

Citadel / Winter / diy – Bandito's, April 12 @ 9pm (w/ Sinister Haze)

Kromosom / Swine Control / Hardcore Victim – Strange Matter, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Aspects of War, Blazing Eye, Firing Squad, Skemata)

Firing Squad / Endless Game / Agitate

Mr. Bill / Vitality / Section Z – The Camel, April 11 @ 8pm

Even more shows:

Joy – Ask a punk, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Rebecca vs. Mexico, James Disaster, Line & lies)

Gangstagrass – The Broadberry, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Megan Jean and the KFB)

Mediator – Canal Club, April 10 @ 7pm (w/ Greater Is He, Encasing Embrace, Ensnared Humanity, Collapsing, Worldwaker)

TJ Austin Band – The Camel, April 10 @ 8:30pm (w/ Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, Nobile Brothers)

Full Moon Fever, A Tribute to Tom Petty – Cary Street Cafe, April 10 @ 10pm

Kid is Qual – Strange Matter, April 11 @ 5pm (w/ Old Again, Carousel Kings, Sunbox, Post Season)

The Venetia Fair – Canal Club, April 11 @ 6pm (w/ Icarus The Owl, The Great Heights Band, Inquiry, Stay True, The Project, The French Media)

RVA Noise Lotto – Auxiliary, April 11 @ 6:30pm

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Orchestra – Carpenter Centre, April 11 @ 7:30pm

Rod Picott & Jess Klein – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 11 @ 8pm

Ari Hest – The Tin Pan, April 11 @ 8pm

Up the Chain – Ask a punk, April 12 (w/ Flight of Salt, Alison Self)

Awake at Last – Canal Club, April 12 @ 5pm (w/ Lucy In Battle Armor, Felicia Hoyos, Set To Sail, Alternate EndingBand)

Ross Wright – Crossraods, April 12 @ 5:30pm (w/ Information Retrieval, Temple Autonomy)

Dirty Dozen Tour with Kung Fu and Twiddle – The Broadberry, April 12 @ 7pm

Window Liquor – Ask a punk, April 12 @ 7:30pm (w/ Orgasm, Men's Room)

Bob Dylan – Altria Theatre, April 12 @ 8pm

Hannah Aldridge – Capital Ale House, April 13 @ 7pm

Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles – The Camel, April 13 @ 8pm (w/ Jung Funk)

DJ Williams Projekt Soul Revue w/ Samantha Reed – The Broadberry, April 14 @ 7pm

The Jangling Reinharts – Benefit for the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls / The Tin Pan, April 14 @ 8pm

Whiskey Shivers – Bandito's, April 14 @ 9pm (w/ Dismal Swamp Lords)

The Come Up, RVA Hip Hop Showcase – Balliceaux, April 14 @ 10pm

Zach Deputy – The Camel, April 15 @ 8pm

Red Light Rodeo – Cary Street Cafe, April 15 @ 10pm

Birds of Chicago – In Your Ear, April 16

A Skylit Drive – Canal Club, April 16 @ 5pm (w/ Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Wolves at the Gate, Breaking Through, Seraph, Here After, A Collegiate Affair, Kept At Bay)

Willie Watson – Ashland Coffee & Tea, April 16 @ 8pm

Front Country – The Tin Pan, April 16 @ 8pm