Activate!Activate! January 21 – January 28

A little snow hopefully won't prevent you from catching a lot of the excellent live acts laying down tunes in Richmond this week. At 5pm, highlights include the Bad Grrrl Revue featuring Ultra Flake, ICE, and Magnus Lush (pictured) and a song from Goldrush who will take you back with a Soundtrack to 1996. Plus, I'll give away tickets to see KRS-One and Moon Taxi, both at The National!

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ACTIVATE! 1-21-16

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)

The Fretful Porcupine / Long Stack of Blues / single – Black Iris, Jan. 22 @ 7pm

Kiti Gartner & The Deceits / All I Can Do Is Cry / single – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 27 @ 10pm

Grant-Lee Phillips / Raise the Spirit / Strangelet – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Steve Poltz)

Catriona Sturton / Black In the Colour / Bumblebee – Gallery 5, Jan. 28 @ 7pm (w/ Dave Watkins, Samantha Pearl)

Birds of Chicago / Trampoline / Birds of Chicago – The Tin Pan, Jan. 28 @ 8pm

Black Water Gold / Heavy Life / Round Up – Garden Grove Brewery, Jan. 28 @ 7pm (w/ Prabir Mehta, Jonathan Parker)

People's Blues of Richmond / Well Well / Hard On Blues – The Broadberry, Jan. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Atlas Road Crew)

Big Mama Shakes / Freight / As She Does – Single Release / The Camel, Jan. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Basement Club, Wester Green)

Moon Taxi / All Day All Night / Daybreaker – The National, Jan. 26 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Congress)

Goldrush / God / We Don't Have to Worry – The Soundtrack of 1996 / Savory Grain, Jan. 22 @ 9pm (w/ DJ Step Into the AM)

Those Manic Seas / Outlier / single – Balliceaux, Jan. 28 @ 9:30pm

Sidewalk Chalk / There She Goes / Leaves – The Camel, Jan. 26 @ 8pm (w/ Tennison)

KRS-One / I'm On the Mic / Life – The National, Jan. 28 @ 7pm

Gemtone / LO / Thru False Walls – Gallery 5, Jan. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Frankie Martinez, Karacell, Lushloss)

Cameron Esposito / Guacamole / Same Sex Symbol – Strange Matter, Jan. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Rhea Butcher, Mary Jane French)

Otter / Routes / Stone Songs – Strange Matter, Jan. 24 @ 6pm (w/ Dropping Ugly, Ruse de Guerre, Cold Beaches)

Manatree / Static / Manatree – The Camel, Jan. 22 @ 8pm (w/ The Trillions, The Anatomy of Frank, The Seaons)

The Seaons / Tick & Twirl / single

Toxic Moxie / A Simulation / Episode VI – Strange Matter, Jan. 23 @ 9pm (w/ Imaginary Sons, Automagik, Camp Howard, Partition)

Automagik / Dark Daze / Dark Daze

Elvis Depressedly / Big Break / New Alhambra – Gallery 5, Jan. 27 @ 7pm (w/ Cende, Cat Be Damned)

Cende / Widow / EP

The Ar-Kaics / No No No / The Ar-Kaics – Hardywood, Jan. 23 @ 5pm (w/ Lady God, Passing Phases)

Passing Phases / Ramona / Another Side

The Everymen / Novocaine / New Jersey Hardcore – The Camel, Jan. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Lightfields, Red States, Hoax Hunters)

Hoax Hunters / Glitterbomb / Comfort & Safety

Lightfields / Self-Entitled / Junior – Ask a punk, Jan. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Mad Extras, Clair Morgan, Feral Conservatives)

Fat Spirit / Real Life / Super King – Hardywood, Jan. 22 @ 5pm (w/ Fried Egg, Pete Curry, Basmati)

Fried Egg / Sugs / The Incredible Flexible Egg

Soda / Blonde on Blonde / single – Ask a punk, Jan. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Magnus Lush, Julie Karr)

Magnus Lush / All the Vampires / Demo 2015 – 3rd Annual RVA Bad Grrl Revue / Strange Matter, Jan. 22 @ 5pm (w/ Atta Girl, ICE, Blackball, Dazeases, Nosebleed, Ultra Flake, Butterfly Closure)

Gritter / Sea of Trees / Welcome to the Sinkhole – Bandito's, Jan. 24 @ 9pm (w/ The Medusa)

Young Rapids / You Won't / Pretty Ugly – Strange Matter, Jan. 28 @ 9pm (w/ Venus Guytrap, Hot Reader, End Year)

 

Even more shows:

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Landmark, Jan. 22 @ 8pm

Mutant Academy – The Commencement / Gallery 5, Jan. 22 @ 7pm (w/ B.cwards Haus, Tribe)

The Currys – In Your Ear, Jan. 22 @ 7:30pm

Fear of Music: A Talking Heads Tribute – The Broadberry, Jan. 22 @ 8pm (w/ The Slank)

Deli Rowe – Canal Club, Jan. 22 @ 8pm (w/ Corey El, DJ King Cise)

Fool's Errand – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Sturgeon City)

Brook Pridemore – Ask a punk, Jan. 23 (w/ Dazeases, The Florida Rooms, Yankee Roses)

Jackson Browne – Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, Jan. 23 @ 8pm

Brian Owens sings Marvin Gaye – Beacon Theatre, Jan. 23 @ 6:30pm

LOC presents… The Road to Mean – Gallery 5, Jan. 23 @ 7pm

Red Light Rodeo – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 23 @ 8pm

Megalodon – Canal Club, Jan. 23 @ 8pm

No BS Brass Band – Balliceaux, Jan. 23 @ 10:30pm

Sam Dorsey and the Tidewater Guitar Quartet, Classical Guitar – Singleton Performing Arts Center, Jan. 24 @ 4pm

The Wailers – Beacon Theatre, Jan. 24 @ 6pm

Adwela & the Uprising – The Broadberry, Jan. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Footwerk)

Classical Incarnations – Balliceaux, Jan. 24 @ 9pm

Silent Psychic – The Camel, Jan. 25 @ 7pm (w/ Seawhores, Mobius Strip)

Yonder Mountain String Band – The National, Jan. 27 @ 7pm

You Don't Know Me: Joe Harrera – Triple Crossing, Jan. 27 @ 7pm

Brunswick – Balliceaux, Jan. 27 @ 9:30pm

Jordan Harman Band – The Camel, Jan. 28 @ 8pm (w/ Gang of Thieves)

Mikrowaves – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 28 @ 10pm