ACTIVATE! 7-28-16
Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)
Bunny Man Bridge / Pray for Mojo / single – Cary Street Cafe, July 29 @ 10pm (w/ The Mad Children)
What Cheer? Brigade / Saiyan re Saiyan / We Blow You Suck – Strange Matter, Aug. 1 @ 9pm (w/ Madison Turner, Gull, All the Saints Theater Company)
Sam Reed / Come Inside / This Is Love – Heart & Soul Brew Fest / Hardywood, July 30 @ 2pm (w/ The Heavy Hitter DJ Lonnie B, DJ Rayvon, DJ Nobe, Marcus Gold, Emma Davis, Radio B, The Legacy Band)
Vacation Manor / Careless / Girl, Say – The Camel, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ DJ Phil Dice, Heartracer, Appeal to Heaven)
The Coal Men / Stuck / Escalator – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 30 @ 8pm
The Stray Birds / Where You Come From / Magic Fire – Capital Ale House, July 29 @ 7pm (w/ Woody Woodworth & The Rebel City)
Rod Picott / 410 / Welding Burns – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 4 @ 8pm
Avers / Everything Hz / Omega Whatever – Album Release / The Broadberry, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ Blank Range, Camp Howard)
Blank Range / Scrapin’ / 7″
Camp Howard / Holding Her Tight / Camp Howard – The Camel, Aug. 3 @ 8pm (w/ Illiterate Light, Worse Curses, Nathan K, Terror Pigeon)
Nathan K / Calendar Page / Methodist Girls
Illiterate Light / Chest II (Living and Dying) / Earthworm
Best Coast / Fine Without You / California Nights – The National, Aug. 4 @ 7pm (w/ Sunflower Bean)
Sunflower Bean / This Kind of Feeling / Human Ceremony
James Badfellows / Tuesday the 13th / A Blaze In the Northern Soul – Bandito’s, July 31 @9pm (w/ The Green Hearts)
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys In the Campfire / Not This Time / single – Gallery 5, July 29 @ 7pm (w/ Frankie Lee, Chip Roberts, Long Arms)
Winstons / Do My Best / Black Dust – Strange Matter, Aug. 2 @ 8pm (w/ Ron Gallo, Saw Black, Pete Curry)
Ron Gallo / Kill the Medicine Man / single
Giraffes? Giraffes! / Swallowing Light And Sweating Diamonds / 7″ – Gallery 5, Aug. 4 (w/ Dumb Waiter, This City Called Earth, Thumper)
Dumb Waiter / Yoga Bacon / Cancel Christmas
This City Called Earth / Pulled Apart By / Sunlight – Strange Matter, July 30 @ 8pm (w/ Trinkets, Ashes, Doctor Collins)
Doctor Collins / The Fiend / Doctor Collins and the Chemistry Clash
Happy Diving / The Call, It Thunders / Electric Soul Unity – Strange Matter, Aug. 4 @ 9pm (w/ True Body, Fat Spirit, Basmati)
Morus Alba / Young Children / Morus Alba – Sound of Music, Aug. 4 @ 8pm (w/ Get In the Car, Young Scum)
Get In the Car / Eschaton / single
ORBS / Picked Apart By Time / 7″ – Strange Matter, July 31 @ 8pm (w/ Everyone Dies In the End, Ivadell, Suneater)
Holy Grail / Sudden Death / Times of Pride and Peril – Strange Matter, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ Spellcaster, Exmortus, Deathcrown)
Deathcrown / God Is a Lie / Living Hell
Carcass / Rot ‘n Roll / Heartwork – The Broadberry, Aug. 2 @ 6:30pm (w/ Crowbar, Ghoul, Night Demon)
Ghoul / Wall of Death / single
Crowbar / Burn Your World / Broken Glass
One Master / Intolerance / Reclusive Blasphemy – 25 Watt, July 31 @ 7pm (w/ Scowl, Voarm, Apalling, Bog of the Infidel)
Scowl / Big Baby Jesus Ain’t Dead, He Just Got Priors / Quemés Una Iglesia Para Encender La Mota
Rick Parker and Li Daiguo / a steady heartbeat is the sound of death / Free World Music – Balliceaux, Aug. 3 @ 9:30pm (w/ Scott Clark Other 4tet)
Even more shows (by date):
Paulo Franco and the Rateros – Hardywood, July 29 @ 5pm
Afro Zen Allstars – Garden Grove, July 29 @ 8pm
Cristian Perez Quartet – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 29 @ 8pm
Marshall Tucker Band – Beacon Theatre, July 30 @ 6:30pm
The Judy Chops – The Camel, July 30 @ 8pm (w/ Sturgeon City, Ben Pham)
The Bush League – The Speakeasy, July 30 @ 8pm (w/ Love Logic)
Cashmere Jungle Lords – Poe’s Pub, July 30 @ 9:30pm
Music of Indonesia: Rumput & Gamelan Raga Kusuma – Hardywood, July 31 @ 2pm
Bad To the Bone Blues Bash benefit for American Cancer Society – Henrico Theatre, July 31 @ 4pm (w/ De Lady E, the Lawrence Olds Band, Bobby “Blackhat” Walters Band)
Cat Be Damned – Strange Matter, July 31 @ 5pm (w/ Bulldog Eyes, Elli, Sarah M)
Chevelle – The National, July 31 @ 7pm
Shooter Jennings – Capital Ale House, Aug. 2 @ 7pm
Devil’s Workshop Big Band – The Camel, Aug. 2 @ 8pm
Muriel Anderson – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 2 @ 8pm
Delaplane – The Tin Pan, Aug. 3 @ 7pm
Butch Trucks & the Freight Train Band – Capital Ale House, Aug. 3 @ 8pm
Dead Earth Politics – Wonderland, Aug. 3 @ 9pm
Dark Star Orchestra – Heritage Amphitheater at Pocahontas State Park, Aug. 4
Big Mama Shakes – The Camel, Aug. 4 @ 8pm (w/ Erin & the Wildfire, Used Car Salesman)