Activate!Activate! March 3 – March 10

Let's go to some shows! Choose from over 35 bands tonight on Activate! at 5pm, incuding the Lucy Dacus (pictured) album release show. Plus, I'll send listeners to three shows, including Metric at The National, Florist at Gallery 5, and Sheer Mag and Downtown Boys at Strange Matter!

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ACTIVATE! 3-3-16

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

Restroy / Autumn Must Be Money / Saturn Return – Black Iris, March 4 @ 9pm (w/ 357 Ensemble)

Marbin / Intro / Aggressive Hippies – The Camel, March 7 @ 8pm (w/ Brunswick, Vanilla Summit)

Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / Birds with Broken Wings / Birds with Broken Wings – The Camel, March 10 @ 7:30pm (w/ Exiles Among You, Allie Smith)

Louis Waymore / She's Got a Gun / She's Got a Gun – River City Barn Dance / Hardywood, March 5 @ 4pm (w/ Ragged Mountain String Band, Andy Vaughan & The Driveline)

Allen Thompson / Forgive Me / 26 Years – Triple Crossing, March 5 @ 7:30pm (w/ Dickie Wood of The Atkinsons)

Fool's Errand / Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) / Ladybug House 2 – Bandito's, March 6 @ 9pm (w/ The Moonbees)

Star & Micey / Get 'Em Next Time / Get 'Em Next Time – The Camel, March 5 @ 8pm(w/ Steal the Last Bison)

Jeremiah Tall / Moonlight / Where The Lore Began – The Camel, March 6 @ 7pm (w/ Suburban Living, Ocean Vs. Daughter, South Hill Banks)

Suburban Living / Video Love / Always Eyes

Prince Rama / Bahia / Xtreme Now – Strange Matter, March 9 @ 9pm (w/ Gemtone, Mutwawa)

Florist / Cold Lakes-Quiet Dreams / The Birds Outside Sang – Gallery 5, March 6 @ 7pm (w/ Cat Be Damned, We Never)

Teen / Gone for Good / Love Yes – Gallery 5, March 9 @ 7pm (w/ Blanks, Dazeases)

Vita & the Woolf / Diamon Halls / Fang Song – Emilio's, March 9

Metric / The Shade / Pagans in Vegas – The National, March 8 @ 6:30pm (w/ Joywave)

Porches / Be Apart / Pool – Strange Matter, March 10 @ 7pm (w/ Alex G, Your Friend)

Alex G / Kicker / Beach Music

MC Chris / Ratz / Eating's Not Cheating – Strange Matter, March 4 @ 7pm (w/ Nathan Anderson, MC Chicken & the Nugget Band)

Zuli / Supernatural Voodoo / Supernatural Voodoo – Strange Matter, March 6 @ 5pm (w/ Manatree, Houdan the Mystic, Camp Howard)

Lucy Dacus / Troublemaker Doppleganger / No Burden – Album Release / The Broadberry, March 4 @ 8pm (w/ Spooky Cool, Rikki Shay)

Diet Cig / Breathless / Over Easy – Strange Matter, March 8 @ 7pm (w/ All Dogs, Kississippi)

All Dogs / Flowers / Kicking Every Day

The Everymen / NJHC / Givin' Up On Free Jazz – The Camel, March 8 @ 8pm (w/ Gemini Love, Erotic Bombs)

Kal Marks / Mankind / Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies – Sound of Music, March 6 @ 7pm (w/ Fat Spirit, Basmati, Yikes)

Honey / Quiver / Exorcise – Gallery 5, March 4 @ 7pm (w/ Doll Baby, Lushloss)

Echo Courts / Fairview Place / No Damage – Gallery 5, March 5 @ 8pm (w/ Collin Thibodeauxx, Young Scum)

Sheer Mag / Travelin' On / II 7" – Strange Matter, March 5 @ 5pm (w/ Downtown Boys, Christi, Dazeases)

Downtown Boys / 100% Inheritance Tax / Full Communism

Donovan Wolfington / Sadhead / How to Treat the Ones You Love -Strange Matter, March 7 @ 7pm (w/ Frameworks, Truman, Sports Bra)

Frameworks / Time Spent / 7"

Exit Dust / Night Eyes / Demo II – 25 Watt, March 5 @ 9pm (w/ Curse, Asylum, R-Complex, Schiavi)

Asylum / Legions / s/t

Witchaven / Puppets On a String / Blood Sacrifice – Strange Matter, March 10 @ 11:30pm (w/ Steel Bearing Hand, Cremains)

Cannabis Corpse / Considered Dank / From Wisdom To Baked – Strange Matter, March 6 @ 9pm (w/ Artificial Brain, Humungus, Artillery Breath)

Artillery Breath / Frozen / The All Seeing Eye

Fucking Invincible / Under the Sun / I Hate Myself and Want You To Die – Gallery 5, March 10 @ 7pm (w/ Die Choking, Burn/Ward)

Die Choking / Millerem / III

Disciples of Christ / Varicose Veins / Decomposition Fantasy – Ask a punk, March 6 @ 7:30pm (w/ Outshined, Buzzard Dust, Charmer)

Keep / Old Man / Hypnosis for Sleep – Strange Matter, March 5 @ 9pm (w/ Au Revoir, Shy Low, Venomspitter)

 

Even more shows:

Devil Wears Prada – Canal Club, March 4 @ 6pm (w/ Set For Tomorrow, When Cities Sleep, Vacive, Captive Eyes)

One Truth – The National, March 4 @ 6:30pm (w/ The Redublic, Chasing Avenir)

After Jack – The Tin Pan, March 4 @ 7pm

Bennett Wales – Folk Friday / Capital Ale House, March 4 @ 7:30pm (w/ Nobile Brothers, James and Emma)

Groove Fetish – The Camel, March 4 @ 9pm (w/ Southern Belles)

Kendall Street Company – Cary Street Cafe, March 4 @ 10pm

Winter Shing-A-Ling! benefit for Girls Rock! RVA – Balliceaux, March 4 @ 10pm (w/ Venus Guytrap, DJ Marty Key, DJ Tracy Wilson, DJ Charly Himmell, DJ Sara Gossett, DJ Aaron Bushman, DJ Patty Conway)

Between the Buried and Me – The National, March 5 @ 5:30pm (w/ August Burns Red, The Faceless, Good Tiger)

Doug Church (The True Voice of Elvis) – Beacon Theatre, March 5 @ 6:30pm

Appomattox Lead Foot – Canal Club, March 5 @ 7:30pm (w/ Chocolate Possum, Mike Norris)

Susan Greenbaum Presents Carole King’s “Tapestry” – Ashland Coffee & Tea, March 5 @ 8pm

Yarn – The Broadberry, March 5 @ 8pm (w/ James Justin & Co.)

Vexine – Sine, March 5 @ 9:30pm

Miller & The Other Sinners – Cary Street Cafe, March 5 @ 10pm

Sixth Annual Bach Marathon – St. Michael's Epicsopal Church, March 6 @ 3pm

Felicia Hoyos Band – Canal Club, March 6 @ 5pm (w/ Alternate Ending Band, Ignite the Fire, Slick One, Awake At Last, Chasing Avenir)

Leon Russell – The Tin Pan, March 6 @ 6pm (w/ Jefferson Grizzard)

Clint Black – Beacon Theatre, March 6 @ 6pm

Miss May I – The Broadberry, March 9 @ 5pm (w/ Sirens And Sailors, God Of Nothing, Vilified, Skies Of Gomorrah)

Patty Larkin – The Tin Pan, March 9 @ 7pm (w/ Stewart Lewis)

Joey Cook & the Indigo Cats – Canal Club, March 9 @ 8pm (w/ LoveCats)

Austin Lounge Lizards – Ashland Coffee & Tea, March 9 @ 8pm

Barstool Heroes – The Camel, March 10 @ 9pm (w/ Honduras, Will Overman)

Bonnie Raitt – Carpenter Theater, March 10 (w/ The California Honeydrops)

Gene and Gayla Mills & The Fireflies – The Tin Pan, March 10 @ 7pm

Excision – The National, March 10 @ 8pm (w/ Figure, Bear Grillz)

The Drowning Season – Fallout, March 10 @ 9pm (w/ Novarium, Low On Sanity)