Activate!Activate! February 15 – February 22

Hey live music geeks, I got a full show tonight starting at 7pm. First off, the World/Inferno Friendship Society (pictured) will join me in the studio for a live acoustic set! Plus, I have tickets to give away to Steel Pulse and Mates of State. All that and 120 minutes of tunes from other bands playing RVA!

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Activate! 2/15/12

Ras Puma / Winner / The Laundromat – Bob Marley celebration / Canal Club, Feb. 17 @ 8pm (w/ Stable Roots, Kenyatta Hill, Antero, Crucial Elements)

Steel Pulse / Ku Klux Klan / Island – The National, Feb. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Ace Reporter, Antero)

Jon Ramsey / Monster In the Valley / diy – CD release / Emilio's, Feb. 16 @ 8pm (w/ Dr. Dukes, Santamaria Bros. PJ Bottoms)

Ghost Owls / Open Wire / diy – Ring Dog Rescue benefit / Cary Street Cafe, Feb. 18 @ 7pm (w/ Wake of the Flood, Barstool Heroes, The Lunes, The Spaceheaters)

Sunday Valley / All the Pretty Colors / diy – Bandito's, Feb. 19 @ 9pm (w/ Venus Throw)

Bop Alloy / Universe Works / diy – The Camel, Feb. 16 @ 9pm (w/ Ahnnu, Luggage, Ohbliv)

Screaming Females / Bell / Don Giovanni – Steady Sounds, Feb. 16 @ 7pm (w/ Julie Karr)

Julie Karr / Little Girls / Intervention – The Camel, Feb. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Herschel Stratego, Erika Blatnik, Christopher Paul Stelling)

Christopher Paul Stelling / Mourning Train to Memphis / diy

World/Inferno Friendship Society LIVE ON WRIR – The Camel, Feb. 15 @ 8pm (w/ Max Levine Ensemble, Mischief Brew, Amateur Thieves)

Mates of State / Jigsaw / Barsuk – Canal Club, Feb. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Canary Oh Canary, Sean Bones)

Sean Bones / Rhumba Beat / Frenchkiss

Trip Dicks / Set the Trap / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 16 @ 9pm (w/ Caves Caverns, Amil Byleckie Band, Champagne of Rats, The Deads)

Amil Byleckie Band / Love is Waiting to be Found / diy

Head Trip Conception – Fallout, Feb. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Low On Sanity, Data Recover, Industrial Grade Acid)

The Cinnamon Band / Call me a Doctor / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Airstrip, Snowy Owls)

Snowy Owls / Papertooth / Harding Street Assembly Lab

Those Manic Seas / Love is Treason / diy – The Camel, Feb. 19 @ 7pm (w/ Gray Young, Mittenfields, Left and Right)

Gray Young / Tilling the Wind / 307 Knox

Ghost Lotion / War to Be Won / diy – Cellar Door, Feb. 19 @ 8pm (w/ The Milkstains, Heavy Midgets, Chris Staples)

Heavy Midgets / Something Terrible / diy

This is Your Life / High Tide / diy – Ask a Punk, Feb. 19 @ 7pm (w/ Olde Tigers, Invaluable, Holy City Zoo, Jake Mayday)

Holy City Zoo / WW5 / Tiny Giant

Caust / A Smoker's Lair / diy – Ask a punk, Feb. 17 @ 7:30pm (w/ Al Kafir, Unsacred, Meth Lab)

Unsacred / Living Blind (And Falling Behind) / diy

Diamond / Sunburn / diy – Ask a punk, Feb. 17 @ 7pm (w/ Daytrader, The Haverchucks, Hold Tight!)

Daytrader / Kill My Compass / Run for Cover – Kingdom, Feb. 16 @ 6pm (w/ Man Overboard, Handguns, Candy Hearts, Seahaven)

Seahaven / Plague / Run for Cover

Useless Eaters / Daily Commute / Run for Cover – Strange Matter, Feb. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Dry Spell, Eurotics)

The Pilgrim / Really Movin' / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Slow Bull, Boney loner & the Sacred Teachers)

Compass Rose Orchestra / Purple Up / diy  – CD Release / The Camel, Feb. 17 @ 7pm (w/ The Congress)

Gull – Cous Cous, Feb. 16 @ 10:30pm

The Silo Effect – Canal Club, Feb. 16 @ 9pm (w/ DVS, Sonic Spank)

People's Blues of Richmond, Feb. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Former Champions, Air Circus, The Big Payback)

Folk Soul Revival – The Camel, Feb. 18 @ 8pm (w/ The Green Boys, Josh Bearman & friends)

Gritter – The National, Feb. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Faultline, Steelshot, Five Leaf Clover)

The Garbers – Cellar Door, Feb. 18 @ 10pm (w/ The Green Hearts)

Paranoid Androidz – Cous Cous, Feb. 18 @ 11pm (w/ Alcrani, Eric Emz)

Eric Lindell – Richmond Unite benefit / Hippodrome, Feb. 19 @ 7pm

SONiA & Disappear Fear – Gay Community Center of Richmond, Feb. 19 @ 8pm

Chris Kasper – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theater, Feb. 18 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ The Moonbees)

The Magnificant Bastards – Balliceaux, Feb. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Uncle Phugly, Matt Conner)