Activate!Activate! December 31 – January 7

Tonight at 7pm, I will give you a guide for starting off 2015 with live music. Bands playing the first week of the new year include The Hot Seats, The Vendors, Shy Low, Occultist, Unholy Thoughts, Omega Boys, Julie Karr, and White Laces, as well as Red Light Rodeo (pictured) who are playing with Chrome Daddy Disco and Splork at the WRIR X beer preview tasting this Friday at Hardywood. Plus, I'll give away tickets to see That 1 Guy at the Camel!

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ACTIVATE! 12-31-14

Rattlemouth / Good Clean Fun / diy – Crossroads, Jan. 3 @ 8pm

Fred Eaglesmith / Been a Long Time / Bluewater – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 2 @ 8pm

The Hot Seats / Blues In the Bottle / diy – VMFA, Jan. 2 @ 6pm

Erin & The Wildfire / Blame the Rain / diy – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 2 @ 10pm (w/ Common Wealth)

Yarn / Can't Slow Down / Ardsley – The Broadberry, Jan. 3 @ 7pm (w/ Perpetual Grass)

The Southern Belles / Roy / diy – The Camel, Jan. 2 @ 7pm

That 1 Guy / Stepped Into Striped Light / Righteous Babe – The Camel, Jan. 7 @ 9pm (w/ DJ Feels Goodman)

Nathan Hess / Mississippi Mud / diy – Crossroads, Jan. 4 @ 5:30pm

Hunter Wolfe / Make You Mine / diy – The Camel, Jan. 6 @ 8pm (w/ Griff's Room Band, Kairos Effect)

The Vendors / The Lake / diy – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 3 @ 9pm (w/ High Time for Lowlifes)

Mirah / Oxen Hope / Absolute Magnitude – Black Iris, Jan. 6 @ 7pm (w/ Nelly Kate, Todd Chandler)

Alondra Bentley / Of All Living Creatures, Why a Human Being / Absolute Beginners – Balliceaux, Jan. 5 @ 9pm

Red Light Rodeo / White Dog / diy – WRIR X Beer Release / Hardywood, Jan. 2 @ 4pm (w/ DJ Carlito, DJ Sean Lovelace, Chrome Daddy Disco, Splork!)

Chrome Daddy Disco / Square Root / diy

Splork! / Let Me Owt! / diy

Ratboys / Collected / diy – Ask a punk, Jan. 5 @ 8pm (w/ The Foam, Victory party)

Julie Karr / Break My Heart / Intervention – Gallery 5, Jan. 2 @ 7pm (w/ Sportsbar, Heavy Midgets)

Sportsbar / Movie Screams / Bad Grrrl

White Laces / On a Wire / Happenin – Hardywood, Jan. 3 @ 4pm (w/ Lady God, Awesome Few, Christi)

Christi / Subatomic / diy

Picture Perfect / Off the Grid / Mutant League – Canal Club, Jan. 2 @ 7pm (w/ Burn The Ballroom, 3PM, The Concussion Theory, Sunbox, A Collegiate Affair, Kept At Bay)

Sister Helen / In Conjunction with the Sun / diy – Strange Matter, Jan. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Tribal Rites, Antelope King, Thai Sun, An0va)

Proxy / Undone / Discosmmm – Strange Matter, Jan. 2 @ 9pm (w/ Unholy Thoughts, Lost Tribe, Slugz)

Unholy Thoughts / The Situation / Forcefield

Lost Tribe / Midnight Rain / Avant

Omega Boys / Hardwired / diy – Strange Matter, Jan. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Semper Eadem, Violent Outburst, RHDP)

Violent Outburst / Hard Way / diy

RHDP / Parusa / Tension Head

Occultist / A Hell for the Innocent / Primitive Ways – Wonderland, Jan. 2 @ 9pm (w/ Hoboknife, Krang)

Krang / Lost Road / Profane Existence

Shy Low / Heavy Hands / Fluttery  – Gallery 5, Jan. 5 @ 7:30pm (w/ Lotus Grid, A Film In Color)

A Film In Color / To Scale a Mountain i / diy

Even more shows:

The Big Payback – The Camel, Dec. 1 @ 8pm

Ronny Cox – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 2 @ 8pm

The Articles – Center of the Universe, Jan. 3 @ 4pm

Former Champions – The Camel, Jan. 3 @ 8pm

Miramar – Hardywood, Jan. 4 @ 3pm (w/ Rattan DJ)

Youth Funeral – Chazfest, Jan. 4 @ 5pm (w/ Truman, Polyphony, Me vs. I, Gauna 491, Caust)

Soul Glo – Chazfest, Jan. 4 @ 9pm (w/ Cross Eyed, Page of Concrete)

Charles Owens Trio – Balliceaux, Jan. 7 @ 9:30pm