Activate!Activate! August 21 – August 28

I'm sure there will be more than one band that will make your ears perk up on tonight's Activate! at 7pm. If so, go see them live in Richmond this week! Perhaps it'll be Alex Bleeker, So So Glos, The Coathangers, Zero Boys or Shy Low. Or maybe Eric Hunter (pictured), who is playing a benefit for local musician and artist Kris Krull.

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Activate! 8-21-13

Mike Dillon Band / DVS / Royal Potato Family – Capital Ale House, August 23 @ 8pm

Annalise Emerick / I Came Around / diy – Globehopper, August 26 @ 7pm

The Atkinsons / You Could Go / diy – Mister K Benefit at Poe's Pub, August 24 @ 4pm (w/ Janet Martin Duo, Weeping Molly, Luz Del Sol, Rob Williams Band, Eric Hunter and The Distractions, Paulo Franco & The Rateros, The Dimmer Twins, The Funky Delicious Jam Session, Jim Daab, Paul Pearce, Mason Wyatt, Tabb Justis, Gary Atkinson, Jim O'Brien, Wes Edwards)

Paulo Franco / What I Came Here For / diy

Eric Hunter / White Noise / Emerald City

JP Harris & the Tough Choices / Return to Sender / Cow Island – Balliceaux, August 23 @ 10pm (w/ Alison Self)

Diablo Dimes / So Long Blues / Reltone – Twangtown Thursday / Balliceaux, August 22 @ 9:30pm (w/ Alison Self)

Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses) / Oxycontin Blues / New West – The National, August 23 @ 7pm (w/ Allison Moorer, the Mastersons)

Solpocket / The Inside / diy – Bogart's, August 23 @ 9pm

The Deems / 401K / diy – The Camel, August 28 @ 9pm (w/ Pigeons Playing Ping Pong)

Alex Bleeker & the Freaks / Step Right Up (And Pour Yourself Some Wine) / Woodsist – Strange Matter, August 26 @ 5pm (w/ Age of Asparagus)

Coaster / Chewy / diy – Strange Matter, August 27 @ 9pm (w/ Goldtooth, Kyle Thornton, Strumpet)

One Hundred Year Ocean / Hospital Town / diy – Strange Matter, August 22 @ 5pm (w/ Rozwell Kid, Sundials, Soundtrack to Sleep)

The Coathangers / Smother / Suicide Squeeze – Strange Matter, August 28 @ 9pm (w/ The Nervous Ticks, Gangland Buries Its Own, Heavy Midgets)

Gangland Buries Its Own / Black Swans and Oxycontin / Stereo Twin

Lil' Huffy / King of the Mountain / diy – The Camel, August 25 @ 9pm (w/ Herro Sugar, Heavy Midgets)

Diarrhea Planet / Warm Ridin' / Infinity Cat – Strange Matter, August 23 @ 9pm (w/ So So Glos, Sacred Teachers, Sports Bar)

So So Glos / Son of an American / Shea Stadium

Agent Orange / Everything Turns Grey / Posh Boy – Bandito's, August 25 @ 9pm

Zero Boys / Drive-In / Secretly Canadian – Strange Matter, August 26 @ 9pm (w/ Night Birds, Cretins, Cloak/Dagger)

Cloak/Dagger / Deathbed Rebels / Jade Tree

Au Revoir / Gb Maj / Never Lost – The Camel, August 27 @ 9pm (w/ Shy Low, October Wolves, Those Manic Seas, Way Shape or Form)

Shy Low / Heavy Hands / Worthless Junk

Stolas / Thief & the Hourglass / Blue Swan – Canal Club, August 27 @ 6pm (w/ Dumbwaiter, Strawberry Girls, Strongbow, Goddess Crow, Audio Insight)

Strawberry Girls / Bird Technology Pt. II / Tragic Hero

Caltrop / Shadow and Substance / Holidays for Quince – Strange Matter, August 24 @ 9pm (w/ Kings Destroy, Everyone Dies In the End, War Graves)

Kings Destroy / Casse-Tete / War Crimes

Kaoru Nagisa / Mirage / diy – Ask a punk, August 24 @ 5:30pm (w/ Close Talker, Skullkid, Hold Tight!, Springtime, Truman)

Skullkid / Princess Geometra and the Origami Castle / diy

Hoax / Hide / Deranged – Strange Matter, August 22 @ 9pm (w/ Barge, Asylum, Nightstalker)

Savage Attack / The Flood / diy – Wonderland, August 23 @ 9pm (w/ Gloominous Doom, Mensrea)

Tough Luck / Forever Frigid / Solid Bond – Strange Matter, August 23 @ 5pm (w/ Stick Together, New Solution, Build & Destroy, RZL DZL)

Stick Together / View of One / Control

Born Annoying / Head on Fire / Reaper – Strange Matter, August 24 @ 5pm (w/ In Between, Blind Justice, Cruel Hand, Angel Dust)

Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler / You'll Be Fiine / Desire Path – Gallery 5, August 25 @ 8pm (w/ Anduin, Daniel Bachman)

Even more shows:

River City Barn Dance – Hardywood Brewery, August 24 @ 4pm (w/ Andy Vaughan & the Driveline, Gina Dalmas & the Cow-Tipping Playboys)