Activate! presents:
Thank you to the listeners who donated to our Fund Drive! It’s not too late, that red donate button is still at the top right of our homepage if you would like to contribute to your local radio station. At 5pm, I’ll offer you some incentives, including ticket giveaways for the RVA All Day Block Party with No BS, Thorp Jenson (pictured), and People’s Blues of Richmond among many other local bands, as well as Skinny Lister at The Camel and Listener/Hawthorne Heights at Capital Ale House. Click here for the podcast: wrir.org/listen/
The California Honeydrops, “Hold It Down”
Tubtone - 2018
Capital Ale House, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Charlie Hunter)
Chicano Batman, “Friendship (is a Small Boat in a Storm)”
from Freedom Is Free
ATO Records - 2017
Capital Ale House, May 3 @ 7pm
Kings, “Singlemanhours”
from Kings
Jellowstone - 2015
Bandito's, April 29 @ 10pm (w/ RVA Entertainers Club)
Thorp Jenson, “Lonely”
from Odessa
South Boulevard - 2017
RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ No BS! Brass Band, People's Blues Of Richmond, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ G
No BS! Brass Band, “Nailbiter”
from Brass Knuckles
self-released - 2015
RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ People's Blues of Richmond, Thorp Jenson, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ Ghozt)
People's Blues Of Richmond, “Quit or Die”
from Quit Or Die
Circus Rock Records - 2016
RVA (all day) Block Party at The Broadberry, April 28 @ 1pm (w/ No BS! Brass Band, Thorp Jenson, Angelica Garcia, South Hill Banks, Night Idea, Spooky Cool, Prabir Mehta, Dharma Bombs, Classical Revolutions RVA, Brunswick, DJ Ghozt)
John Morand, “Cut From the Same Cloth”
from Scott's Addiction
Sound of Music - 2018
Album Release at Sound of Music, April 27 (w/ Lauren Marsh, Sparky Quano)
Coma Cinema, “Running Wide Open”
from Loss Memory
Marigold Group - 2017
Strange Matter, May 1 @ 8pm (w/ Erik Phillips, Normal State)
Couch Jackets, “Foo Choo Mama”
from Sayonara Oblongata
self-released - 2017
Garden Grove, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Stacked Like Pancakes, Flight Club, Kept Alive)
Listener, “A Song From A Knife Salesman To His Wife On Their Wedding Day”
Listener - 2009
Capital Ale House, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Hawthorne Heights, Hotel Books, Sienna Skies, Heavy Things)
Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers, “So Small and So Loud”
from Apophenian
self-released - 2018
Flora, April 27 (w/ Glass Twin, Mon Chere)
The Head, “I Wanna Be Loved”
from Space
Missing Piece - 2017
Hardywood, April 27 @ 6pm (w/ Minor Poet, Chris Leggett)
Rock Eupora, “I Wanna Be Alone”
The Camel, April 30 @ 8pm (w/ Black Plastic, Deer Eat Birds)
Skinny Lister, “Geordie Lad”
from The Devil, the Heart & the Fight
Xtra Mile - 2016
The Camel, April 28 @ 7pm (w/ Beans on Toast, Deau Eyes, Righter)
Basement, “Lose Your Grip”
from Promise Everything
Run for Cover - 2016
Canal Club, May 3 @ 6pm (w/ Pronoun, Souvenirs, The Grim Gang)
Sinai Vessel, “Ramekin”
from Brokenlegged
Tiny Engines - 2017
Little Saint, May 3 @ 10:30pm (w/ Padfoot, Doll Baby)
Alvvays, “Your Type”
from Antisocialites
Polyvinyl - 2017
The Broadberry, May 3 @ 7pm (w/ Frankie Rose)
The Wheal, “Body”
from The Wheal
Exhibition - 2016
Little Saint, April 29 @ 10:30pm (w/ The Hunting Dog, Cellsaga)
Technophobia, “Passing People”
from Negative Space
Goth Showcase Vol. 2 at Fallout, April 28 @ 9pm (w/ Heretics In the Lab, This Hollow Machine)
Charly Bliss, “Turd”
from Turd - Single
self-released - 2016
The Camel, May 2 @ 7pm (w/ Skating Polly)
Stuyedeyed, “Cursed”
from Funeral
Greenway - 2017
The Camel, May 1 @ 8pm (w/ Railgun, Grem Smiley, Deli Kings)
Giggly Boys, “Black Sheet Party”
from Tap Tap Tap on a Fragile Bowl - EP
This Ain't Heaven Recording Concern - 2018
Ask a punk, April 27 @ 7pm (w/ Nightbreature, Fat Spirit) and Flora, April 29 @ 8pm (w/ Grandma, Lil (Big) No, Wastelands)
Deathbirds Surf Club, “The Ripper”
Crystal Pistol - 2016
Skate and Destroy Night: Blood and Steel Screening at Hardywood, April 28 @ 6pm (w/ Haircut)
Ruby the Hatchet, “Killer”
Tee Pee Records - 2017
Champion, May 3 @ 6pm (w/ Desert Altar, Heavy Temple)
Axattack, “Axattack”
from Axattack
McCormacks, April 27 @ 8pm (w/ Lions Den, Lord, Optimus Prime, FLood the Asylum)
Cannabis Corpse, “Grass Obliteration”
from Left Hand Pass
Season of Mist - 2017
Strange Matter, April 28 @ 8pm (w/ Perpetuated, Eldritch Horror, Salvaticus)
Cough, “Crippled Wizard”
from Ritual Abuse
Relapse - 2010
Strange Matter, May 2 @ 8pm (w/ Eldritch, Fistula, Come to Grief)
Black Liquid, “Fck”
from F*ck - Single
self-released - 2018
Face Melt Friday at Strange Matter, April 27 @ 8pm (w/ aarnxbrwn, Bing Hey Boys, Cha$e Royale, Chris Haskins, Emphasys, Frankenstein, Goad Gatsby, Kellz, King Rich, Lithium God, Neighborhoodmink, Noah Page, Phill B, VA's General, Zayd The Sage)
Mike Rutz Activate! April 26th, 2018
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