Activate!Activate! May 25 – June 1

If you're like me, a lack of AC is good reason to head to a live show. At 7pm, I'll give you plenty of ways to work up a sweat this week, including Parasytic (pictured) and Tragedy!

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Activate! 5-25-11

Sonen / Head Down / diy – Bellytimber, May 25 @ 11pm (w/ Will Miles, Burnable Optix)

Os Magrelos / Seja Como For / diy – The Camel, May 26 @ 8pm (w/ Beleza Brazil, Capoeira Resistenca)

Beleza Brasil / Maria das Mercedes / diy – CD Release / Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 25 @ 7pm

Toots & the Maytals / Love So Strong / Fantasy – Groovin' In the Garden / Maymont Park, June 2 (w/ The Transmitters)

Spottiswoode & His Enemies / Beautiful Monday / Old Soul – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 27 @ 8pm

James Justin & Co. / The Rescue / diy – CD Release / The Camel, May 29 @ 9pm

Snowy Owls / Pale Fire / diy – Sprout, May 26 @ 10pm (w/ Cinnamon Band, Silversmiths)

Long Arms / Waiting to be Reborn / diy – Brown's Island, May 27 (w/ No BS Brass Band, Three Sheets to the Wind)

One Friend / Ascend the Stairs / diy – The National, May 27 @ 6:30pm (w/ Night Idea, Treetings)

Night Idea / A Song / diy

The Powder Kegs / Hospital / diy – Sprout, May 27 @ 10pm

Dangerous Ponies / I Only Wear My Favorite Clothes at Home / Punk Rock Payroll – The Camel, May 30 @ 9pm (w/ Black Girls, Young Adult Fiction, Northern Diver)

Black Girls / Get Off / diy

Roma / Cigarettes, Knife, and a Cellular Phone / diy – The Camel, May 28 @ 9pm

Tina Sparkle / Oh Redheads…Red Means Stop! / Thinker Thought – The Triple, May 26 @ 10pm

Climbers / House of Fame / diy – Strange Matter, May 28 @ 9pm (w/ Tate House, Yvette)

Yvette / Vibrations / diy

The Wild / Mudlines / Sidejar – Rock Garden, May 30 @ 7pm (w/ Sundials, RVIVR, Hold Tight!, Timeshares)

Sundials / Good Words / Toxic Pop

Aye Nako / Rind / diy – BP, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ Arliss Nancy, Little Victory, Ryan B. & the Dead Sea, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships)

Little Victory / Tigers / diy

Mad World / Unforgiven / diy – Strange Matter, May 29 @ 6pm (w/ Dry Spell, Teargas, Syndrome)

US Brass / Crash and Burn / diy – Wonderland, May 28 (w/ Brian Van Aston)

Tragedy / Conflicting Ideas / diy – Strange Matter, June 1 @ 8pm (w/ Balaclava, Windhand, Parasytic)

Parasytic / Liberation / Vex

Kylesa / Phantoms / Prosthetic – Strange Matter, May 26 @ 7pm (w/ Hour of 13, War Graves, Gritter)

War Graves / Jargonism / diy

Mammoth Grinder / Total Extinction / Cyclopean – Strange Matter, May 30 @ 9pm (w/ Miasmal, Occultist, Innumerable Forms)

Occultist / Stratomantis / diy

Wolvserpent / Serpent / 20 Buck Spin – Strange Matter, May 31 (w/ Wildildlife, A Story of Rats, Human Smoke)

Wildildlife / Feed / Crucial Blast

This Time It's War / Manic Dependence / diy – MoFauzy's (1814 E. Main St.), May 26 @ 6pm (w/ Avev, Catalepsy, Escape Takes Lead, Deception of a Ghost)

Bass Science / We are You / 1320 – Canal Club, May 27 @ 9pm (w/ Hippinshlog, M6, Babylon System)