Activate!Activate! July 2 – July 9

Vacations have to end sometime, so I'm back hosting Activate! this week! Many thanks to Shannon, Paul, and Amanda for covering the concert calendar for your ears the last six weeks. Tonight's show features The Southern Belles (pictured) and Nude Photos of Celebrities who both have album release shows, as well as another installment of the Activate! Flashback!

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ACTIVATE! 7-2-15

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

No BS Brass Band / Get It Awn! / diy – The Broadberry, July 3 @ 7pm

Southern Belles / Soul Shaker / diy – Album Release / The Camel, July 3 & 4

The Morning Bugle / I Can't Say / diy – The Tin Pan, July 8 @ 8pm

Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys / The Fix / Earthwork – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 9 @ 8pm

Sarah White  / Spoken Word / Jagjaguwar – Poe's Pub, July 3 @ 9pm (w/ The Atkinsons)

Activate! Flashback!: Gil Scott-Heron / Running / XL – Toad's Place, July 2, 2008

RDGLDGRN / Million Fans / Republic – Canal Club, July 3 @ 6pm (w/ Footwerk, Definition of One, Ruse De Guerre)

DJ Harrison / R2 / Jellowstone – Silent Music Revival / Gallery 5, July 5 @ 8pm (w/ Ohbliv, Film: Say Ah-h!)

Nude Photos of Celebrities / Gloworm / diy – Album Release / Strange Matter, July 6 @ 9pm (w/ Skirts, Tamarron)

Tamarron / Cinnamon Skin / Merdurhaus

The Nude Party / Sweet Shops / diy – Sound of Music, July 9 @ 8pm (w/ Black Water Gold, Pete Curry, Camp Howard)

Black Water Gold / Heavy Life / diy

Pete Curry / Chevy Van / diy

Houdan the Mystic / The Reach / diy – Gallery 5, July 3 @ 8pm (w/ Fight Cloud, Mahlion, Donny Ray)

Fight Cloud / Kevin / diy

White Laces / Skate or Die / Happenin – Hardywood, July 4 @ 3pm (w/ Avers, Manatree, Mikrowaves, My Darling Fury)

Mikrowaves / Bubblegum / diy

Perennial Reel / Constellations / Mulberry Sound – Gallery 5, July 9 @ 7:30pm (w/ Spooky Cool, Antiphons)

Schwervon! / Truth Teller / Loud Baby – Gallery 5, July 7 @ 7pm (w/ Gouda Mayhem, Benjamin Shepherd)

Young Scum / 20pc / diy – The Camel, July 5 @ 8pm (w/ Recluse Racoon, Brown Widow)

The Alberts / Hit the Ground / diy – The Camel, July 8 @ 7pm (w/ Lara Ruggles, Minimum Balance, Dead Tenors)

Heaters / Mean Green / Beyond Beyond is Beyond – Strange Matter, July 7 @ 9pm (w/ Bummer's Eve, Candy Spots, Moonwalks)

Moonwalks / UFO Factory / LOOSE

Candy Spots / Little Cat / diy

Black Cat Attack / Killing Spree At Zero Gravity / diy – Wonderland, July 9 @ 9pm (w/ The Anti-Queens, Creep-A-Zoids)

Creep-A-Zoids / Thrill Me / diy

Intercourse / Birth Of A Neighborhood / diy – Strange Matter, July 9 @ 9pm (w/ Yoga Demon, Ultra Flake, New Turks)

Active Minds / 1000% APR / Loony Tunes – 25 Watt, July 5 @ 8pm (w/ This Close, Dethfox, Orgasm and Humanmania)

Dethfox / Dejected Madness / Runstate

Stinking Lizaveta / LBJ / At a Loss – Strange Matter, July 5 @ 9pm (w/ The Tall Boys, Book of Wyrms)

Book of Wyrms / Nightbong / diy

Kevorkian Death Cycle / Sci Fi / Metropolis – Fallout, July 5 @ 9pm (w/ Die Sektor, Machines Of Living Death)

Even more shows:

Goldrush & Classical Revolution RVA – VMFA, July 3 @ 6pm

Party Liberation Front presents Music Box – Strange Matter, July 3 @ 9pm (w/ Fayo, MASS FX, Mr. Jennings, Reinhold)

Video Fan Movie Club presents Death Race 2000 – Strange Matter, July 5 @ 7pm

RVA Big Band – The Camel, July 6 @ 8pm

Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Pinnacle U2 Tribute – The Broadberry, July 9 @ 7pm (w/ Party of Four – America's #1 Tribute to 80s and 90s Jangle Pop)

Kenny George Band – Capital Ale House, July 9 @ 8pm (w/ Dalton Dash)

Tarrant – Poe's Pub, July 9 @ 9pm