Activate!Activate! August 13 – August 20

In addition to the GWAR-B-Q and Welcome Week Fest, there's a ton of live music options for you in the next seven days. I'll cover a lot of it starting at 5pm, including Lady God (pictured) who are playing the first show of WRIR and Commonwealth of Notions presents Volume 5. Plus, I'll give away tickets to the B4BQ at The National!

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ACTIVATE! 8-13-15

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)

Shane Cooley & The Lucky Kings / Leave This Place / King's Highway – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 14 @ 10pm

The Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass / Kasabian Dead Record / AEON – Bandito's, Aug. 16 @ 10pm (w/ Don Babylon, Thai Sun)

Lowland Hum / Odell / Lowland Hum  – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 20 @ 8pm (w/ The Collection)

Zula / MeUp / Water Pressure – Gallery 5, Aug. 20 @ 7:30pm (w/ Lucy Dacus, Spooky Cool)

Anousheh / Lightning / Anousheh – WRIR and the Commonwealth of Notions Presents: Vol. 5 / Gallery 5, Aug. 15 @ 5pm (w/ Goldrush, Positive No, Lady God, Various Eggs, Way, Shape or Form, Manzara)

Lady God / Nervous Talk / 7" – Strange Matter, Aug. 14 @ 9pm (w/ Desert Sharks, Sea of Storms, The Milkstains)

Desert Sharks / Crazycrazy / Template Hair

Motel Fire / Pharaoh / 1515 – Welcome Week Fest Day 1 / Strange Matter, Aug. 15 @ 4:30pm (w/ Uncle Drunk, Tribal Rites, Sun Eater, Lucy in Battle Armor, Decide By Friday, Super Ghoul, Hot Dolphin)

Hot Dolphin / Lady Werewolf / Hotter Dolphiner

The Mad Extras / Long Weird Night / Best New Artist – Welcome Week Fest Day 2 / The Camel, Aug. 16 @ 4pm (w/ HEADLESSMANTIS, Basement Club, HyeTension, Nic Perea & Camp Howard, Dr. Con, Ashes, Matt Sease, Megan Parochka)

Nic Perea / Too Many Days Ahead / Too Many Days Ahead – Circle Thrift, Aug. 14 @ 8pm (w/ WEM, Headlessmantis, Partition, Recluse Racoon)

Ne-Hi / Haunted Summer / Ne-Hi – Strange Matter, Aug. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Pete Curry, Doll Baby)

The Sidekicks / Everything In Twos / Runners In The Nerved World – Strange Matter, Aug. 18 @ 5pm (w/ All Dogs)

Big Ups / Goes Black / Eighteen Hours of Static – Strange Matter, Aug. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Doubting Thomas Cruise Control, Plain Scarp, Gown)

Colleen Green / Pay Attention / I Want to Grow Up – Strange Matter, Aug. 19 @ 9pm (w/ Venus Guytrap, Bare Thoughts)

Naked / Numb / Hopeless – Strange Matter, Aug. 16 @ 9pm (w/ Scant, R-Complex, Lacanthrope, Neurology, Mother Moon)

Mother Moon / L’appel du Vide (Call of the Void) / Nourishing the Repetition

Single Lash / False / Single Lash – Gallery 5, Aug. 17 @ 7:30pm (w/ Half Bascule, Awesome Few, Future Museums)

Great Deceivers / Phantom Strength / 12" – Gallery 5, Aug. 18 @ 7pm (w/ Gnarwhal, Burn/Ward, Doubtfire)

Gnarwhal / Anal Riffage / Shinerboy

Bermuda Triangles / Left Brain / Transmissions – Auxiliary, Aug. 20 @ 7:30pm (w/ Heavy Medical, Drums Like Machine Guns, Flesh Control, Yohimbe)

Heavy Medical / Shit City / Constant Disappointment

He is Legend / The Seduction / I Am Hollywood – Canal Club, Aug. 15 @ 5pm (w/ Sleepwave, My Enemies and I, Overcomer, Here After, Set For Tomorrow)

Napalm Raid / Living Breathing Dead / Napalm Raid – 25 Watt, Aug. 16 @ 9pm (w/ No Tomorrow, Mania for Conquest)

Fear Factory / Industrial Discipline / Mechanize – B4BQ / The National, Aug. 14 @ 2pm (w/ Coal Chamber, Arch Enemy, Fear Factory, Born of Osiris, Veil of Maya, The Acacia Strain, Obscura, Cattle Decapitation, Beyond Creation)

Arch Enemy / Blood On Your Hands / Rise of the Tyrant

Clutch / The House that Peterbilt / Clutch – GWARBQ / Hadad's Lake, Aug. 15 @ 10am (w/ Descendants, Down, Goatwhore, The Dickies, Dead Earth Politics, RPG, Gritter, MC Chris, Cancer Bats, BAT, Ghoul, Cro-Mags, Mutoid Man, Ringworm, Valkyrie, Child Bite, American Sharks, Troglodyte, Stonecutters)

Descendents / Cool To Be You / Cool To be You

The Dickies / You Drive Me Ape / Incredible Shrinking Dickies

Cro-Mags / We Gotta Know / Age of Quarrel

Down / Pillars of Eternity / NOLA

Today Is the Day / My First Knife / Willpower – GWARBQ After Party / Hardywood, Aug. 15 @ 9pm (w/ Left Cross, Creep-A-Zoids)

Dirt Merchant / Breach / Satan's Orders – McCormack's Irish Pub, Aug. 15 @ 8pm (w/ The Obscurities, The Talkies, The Gospel)

Vector Trio / Well You Shouldn't / Sin Ojos – Auxiliary, Aug. 15 @ 7:30pm (w/ Colla Parte, The New Ting Ting Loft)

Even more shows:

Mutwawa – Sediment, Aug. 14 @ 6pm (w/ Gull, Drippy Inputs, Mall Prowler, DJ Chino Amobi)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band – Beacon Theatre, Aug. 14 @ 6:30pm (w/ Zack Artis & Torre Baker)

Hackensaw Boys – The Broadberry, Aug. 14 @ 7pm

Sleepy Brother – Capital Ale House, Aug. 14 @ 7:30pm

Harpeth Rising – The Tin Pan, Aug. 14 @ 8pm

Holy Hell – Canal Club, Aug. 14 @ 8pm (w/ Luczid, Midnight Tyrannosaurus, Squnto, Tre Justice, Evil Monstar, J Creation, Eikkon, M.Pyre)

Sturgeon City – Savory Grain, Aug. 14 @ 10pm

Red Light Rodeo – Union Market, Aug. 15 @ 4pm

The Bayside Tigers, Ultimate 90s Experience – The National, Aug. 15 @ 7pm

Chatham County Line – Capital Ale House, Aug. 15 @ 7:30pm

The Northerners – The Camel, Aug. 15 @ 9pm

The Sawyer Family – GWARBQ Brutal Brunch / GWAR Bar, Aug. 16 @ 2pm (w/  Sarah White, Mag Bats)

Video Fan Movie Club presents "Big Trouble In Little China" – Strange Matter, Aug. 16 @ 7pm

The Weaks – Ask a punk, Aug. 16 @ 7pm (w/ Clever Girl, Close Talker, Uncle Drunk)

Big Mama Shakes – The Camel, Aug. 17 @ 8pm (w/ The Hoodoos, Basement Club)

Summer Shine Music Tour – Canal Club, Aug. 18 @ 6pm (w/ All About A Bubble, Hold It Down, Jason & The Dazie Train, Jonny Cardigan, The J.O.B. Dropping Ugly, Dragons Head, Some Time Tomorrow, Brickwall Jackson)

Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers – The National, Aug. 18 @ 7:30pm

The Beach Boys – Innsbrook Pavilion, Aug. 19 @ 5pm

The Free Rangers – Lewis Ginter, Aug. 20 @ 5pm

OAR – Innsbrook Pavilion, Aug. 20 @ 5pm (w/ Brynn Elliott, Allen Stone)

Victor Haskins: Skein – VMFA, Aug. 20 @ 6pm

Todd Rundgren – The National, Aug. 20 @ 6:30pm

Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles – The Broadberry, Aug. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Butcher Brown)

Flawless Real Talk – Strange Matter, Aug. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Passionate MC, Sandman, Willie Cinco, P. Long, Bobbie Butcher, Al-See Green)

Fado Nasso – Crossroads, Aug. 20 @ 8pm

Boxwave – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 20 @ 10pm