Thursday, 4/19 The Garbers, Snowy Owls, Peace Beast, The Phunk Tards (DJ set) @ Balliceaux 10pm.
Thursday, 4/19 ScottClark4tet, Bererberg @ Forinstance Gallery (107 E. Cary St.) 8pm. Donations requested.
Thursday, 4/19 Ghost Owls, The Good Birds, Cardinal Compass (pictured above) @ The Camel 8pm.
Thursday, 4/19 Electric Jesus Reading & Chakra Activation with Jonathan Talat Phillips @ The Fountain Bookstore 6:30pm.
Afterparty: Meditation with Drums and Fire (Outdoor Event) @ Dogtown Dance Theatre (15th & Bainbridge – Manchester) 8:30pm.
Friday , 4/20 VCU Students for Sensible Drug Policy present End The Drug War Concert & Rally featuring live music by People’s Blues of Richmond, Antero, Midair, Young Adult Fiction, Night Idea @ Monroe Park 1pm-6pm.
Friday, 4/20 Four Twenty Fest. featuring Head Molt, and others @ The Nile 10pm.
Friday, 4/20 RVA Magazine 7th Anniversary Party (Part One), featuring DJ Doddie & Phenom @ G40 Gallery (115 West Broad St. – Monroe Ward) 7pm - 11pm.
Friday, 4/20 RVA Magazine 7th Anniversary Party (Part Two) featuring DJ Doddie & Long Jawns @ NY Deli 10pm.
Friday, 4/20 The Midnight Suggestion Presents Sam McPheeters (reading from his novel The Loom Of Ruin), David Grant, Shawn Wereley @ Steady Sounds 7pm.
Friday, 4/20 Dank D (album release) @ Bonvenu 10pm. Free. 21+
Friday, 4/20 The Shack Band (pictured above), Proverbial @ Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall 9pm.
Friday, 4/20 The Dirty Truth @ McCook’s Lakeside Sports Grill 10pm.
Friday, 4/20 The Kindling Kind, Ghost Owls @ On the Rox (119 N. 18th St. – Shockoe Bottom) 10pm.
Friday, 4/20 4Play @ Cullen’s Cove (Mechanicsville) 9pm.
Friday, 4/20 Kinnaris Media presents Black Liquid (photo by Ry's Eye), Bobby Capri, Doe the Paperboy, Falmouf, High Skool Heroz, OMG, Sleaze, Tox Sick @ The National 7pm. All Ages.
Friday, 4/20 Kulture Presents ‘4/20 Party’ featuring Teleport Team @ Kingdom 10pm. 18+ (late)
Friday, 4/20 Year Of Shit III, Day One: DEGENERACY, RADICAL DISCHARGE, CZAR (pictured above by John Mourlas), JUDAS HORSE, THE RISIN' SUN, BASTARD SAPLING, Projections by MAD ALCHEMY @ Strange Matter 8pm. (Three Day Pass Tickets at www.yearofshit.eventbrite.com)
Saturday, 4/21 B.A.D Ass Raves & Overtone present DUB101 – Final Exam/Nerd Party featuring Disco Shaman, Notixx, JMungz, Fractal, 2RIP, Mike Phear @ Canal Club 8pm.
Saturday, 4/21 An evening with Beth Nielsen Chapman and Paul Reisler @ Ashland Coffee & Tea 8pm.
Saturday, 4/21 The New Belgians (photo by Melissa Brugh) @ Cary Street Café 10pm.
Saturday, 4/21 Plan 9 Record Store Day live music event featuring DJ Mike Rutz of Activate! (WRIR), Eric Hunter, DJ Charlie Blevins of The All Nighter w/ Charlie (WRIR), The Garbers (photo by Shannon Cleary), DJ Otto Konrad of Edge of Americana (WRIR), Ohbliv, The Trillions, DJ Sonrisa of The Crunge (WRIR), Canary Oh Canary @ Plan 9 Records (Carytown) 10am-9pm.
Saturday, 4/21 Sports Bar (pictured above), Tyrannosaurus Awesome @ Cous Cous 10:30pm.
Saturday, 4/21 Monk’s Playground @ Crossroads (Forest Hill Ave. location) 8pm.
Saturday, 4/21 Daycare Swindlers (pictured above), Walk the Plank, 45 A.D. @ Kingdom 4pm. All Ages. (Early)
Saturday, 4/21 The Richmond Earth Day Festival featuring The Diamond Center, Noah-O, Against Grace, Long Arms, Rattlemouth, Os Magrelos, The Trillions @ 220 Hull St. (Manchester) 12pm. - 7pm.
Saturday, 4/21 Year Of Shit III, Day Two: STREET PIZZA (pictured above), ANCIENT TORTURE TECHNIQUES, ROTTING OBSCENE, THE WAYWARD, HELLBENDER, DEAD RABBITS, PAGAN WOLF RITUAL, COUNT VON VOUNT, NOTHING IS OVER, INFERNAL STRONGHOLD, CALTROP, INTER ARMA @ Strange Matter 4pm. (Three Day Pass Tickets at www.yearofshit.eventbrite.com)
Saturday, 4/21 Audio Ammo presents DJ Bobby La Beat @ The Republic 10pm.
Sunday, 4/22 Caves Caverns, Cigarette, Antlers @ The Nile 10:30pm.
Sunday, 4/22 Larri Branch Agenda @ Commercial Taphouse 9pm.
Sunday, 4/22 Year Of Shit III, Day Three: AL-KAFIR, UNSACRED, EARTHLING (pictured above), MURDER, MIDNIGHT EYE, PISS (KISS Cover band), ILSA, YOUNG AND IN THE WAY, ACROSS TUNDRAS @ Strange Matter 4pm. (Three Day Pass Tickets at www.yearofshit.eventbrite.com)
Sunday, 4/22 Conspirator (pictured above), Damn Right @ Kingdom 9pm. 18+
Written by John Lewis Morgan/originally appeared at onewayrichmond.com