One Way Richmond’s Show Picks 5/24-5/27

by RVA Staff | May 24, 2012 | MUSIC

Thursday, 5/24 Silo Effect, Compass Rose Orchestra @ The Camel 9pm.

Thursday, 5/24 Zac Hryciak and the Jungle Beat @ Cous Cous 10pm.

Thursday, 5/24 Promethean (pictured above), Hadron Delay, Phantasm, Solace Sovay @ Strange Matter 10pm.

Thursday, 5/24 Love Canon @ Ashland Coffee and Tea 8pm.

Thursday, 5/24 St. Vincent (pictured above), Shearwater @ The National 8pm.

Thursday, 5/24 Twangtown Thursdays presents Brownbird Rudy Relic (pictured above), Los Bastardos Magnificos, Sweet Fern @ Balliceaux 9pm. 21+

Thursday, 5/24 DOE, Louie Valles, Ms. Proper (pictured above), DJ Booki Bluntz, Eric Stanley, Kleos & Davy, Full Vision, YFDMG, Bizniz @ Kingdom 7pm. All Ages.

Thursday, 5/24 Wild Moccasins (pictured above), The Fire Tapes @ The Republic 9pm.

Friday, 5/25 Manorlady (photo by Laura DeAngeles), The Lonely Teardrops, Fire Bison @ The Cellar Door 10pm.

Friday, 5/25 Brunswick (Jazz Ensemble) @ The Nile 10pm.

Friday, 5/25 The Brand New Life @ Café Diem 9pm.

Friday, 5/25 My Son the Doctor @ The Shop (0 E. 4th St. – Next to Plant Zero – Manchester) 8pm. Free.

Friday, 5/25 Gene and Gayla Mills @ Stir Crazy Café (4015 MacArthur Ave) 9pm.

Friday, 5/25 Absent Center (pictured above), ROMA, Red States, Splendid Suns @ Current (Epic Theater – 140 Virginia St. – Shockoe Slip) 8pm.

Friday, 5/25 Miss Tess & the Talkbacks @ Balliceaux 10:30pm. 21+

Friday, 5/25 My Ticket Home (pictured above), Hands Like Houses, Palisades, Silence Is a Burden, Beyond the Victory @ Kingdom 5pm. All Ages.

Friday, 5/25 Black Liq & OMG present Face Melt Friday IX featuring: Antagonist Dragonspit, Black Liquid, BloKx, BonnieBoy ENT, Crash McKie, Dank D, Divine Profitz, Due Justice, Established Dons, Falmouf, Gritty City, High Skool Heroes, Ice James, Lynx, Lyrix & Koncept, OMG, R.A.I.G.E., Sleaze, Mic Savvy, DJ Tensiga, The Twisted Ego DJs, and DJ Swerve 36 @ Strange Matter 8pm. 18+

Saturday, 5/26 Brother Bill (pictured above), Grease Trigger @ The Camel 9pm.

Saturday, 5/26 The MagBats, Paulo Franco @ Cary St. Café 10pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Happy Lucky Combo (pictured above), My Son The Doctor @ Crossroads (Forest Hill Ave location) 8pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Warrior Kids (pictured above), No Values, Hard Stripes, Devil’s Hand @ Strange Matter 10pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Joe Enroughty and his Royal Virginians @ Christ Ascension Episcopal Church (1704 W. Laburnum Ave) 6pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Xtreme Groove @ Conch Republic (11 Orleans St. – Rockett’s Landing) 7pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Bob Baldwin @ Hippodrome 7pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Elikeh (pictured above), DJ Graybeard @ Balliceaux 10:30pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Lorem Ipsum, Navi, Heavy Midgets @ The Cellar Door 10pm.

Saturday, 5/26 A FESTIVAL OF RIGHTS! Benefit for Planned Parenthood featuring The Diamond Center, White Laces, Cheyenne, Mothball Fleet, Double Rainbow @ Gallery 5 9pm.

Saturday, 5/26 The Bush League, Half Brother Sid (photo by Diane Travis), Markiss Blowfish, Last Night’s Blues Band @ Canal Club 8pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Beat Down’s Birthday Bash featuring CJ Milli, Beat Down The Kid, Mr. E, HOYT!, A.D.E.N., Eric Smiley, Danny Stovetop @ New York Deli 10pm.

Saturday, 5/26 Flatwoods Creative Records presents end.user (record signing) (photo from Skin and Bones), Patrick Currier @ Turnstyle 5pm, followed by live set on WRIR 97.3 FM 7-9pm.

Saturday, 5/26 I, the Breather (pictured above), Lakeview, Johan Weimer, Meet Me At The Monument, Sound The Retreat, Buried Beneath Us @ Kingdom 5pm. All Ages.

Sunday, 5/27 Joe Buck Jr, Bombadil (pictured above), Paulo Franco @ The Camel 9pm.

Sunday 5/27 Bar Stool Heroes (Outlaw Afternoon) @ The Republic 4pm. (early)

Sunday, 5/27 Urban Waste (pictured above), Dead City Riot, Unholy Thoughts, Walk The Plank @ Strange Matter 10pm.

Sunday, 5/27 Gorilla Music Battle Of The Bands featuring Angelus, A Collegiate Affair, Splendid Suns, YourLastShot!, Lewis Aescue, Our Burning Day, Black Pilots League, Section 8, Raze The Sky, Junkyard Masterpiece, First Class Liar @ Kingdom 4pm.

Written by John Lewis Morgan/originally appeared at onewayrichmond.com

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