Activate!

Activate! December 22 – December 29

Mike Rutz

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)
Paulo Franco / You Left Me Cold Roses / By the Light of a Paper Moon – Hardywood, Dec. 23 @ 6pm (w/ Jon Brown & Kevin Inge)

 

Chamomile and Whiskey / Impressions / Wandering Boots – The Camel, Dec. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Red Light Rodeo)

 

Yarn / Long Way To Texas / Long Way To Texas – The Broadberry, Dec. 29 @ 8pm (w/ Dalton Dash)

 

The Congress / Home Again / The Game – The Camel, Dec. 23 (w/ Russell Lacy)

Russell Lacy / No Going Home / Charlestown

 

Prabir / Keeping This Place Together Using Glue / Prabir & the Substitutes – Xmas Eve Party / The Camel, Dec. 24 @ 8pm (w/ Patrick Bates)

 

Johnny Cardigan / Mr. Jones / single – Cary Street Cafe, Dec. 23 @ 10pm (w/ Dharma Initiative)

 

Former Champions / GTFD / Former Champions – The Broadberry, Dec. 28 @ 8pm

 

Mikrowaves / Edward Prendergast / Get Nuked! – Cary Street Cafe, Dec. 29 @ 10pm

 

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. / Fire & Brimstone / Say That to Say This – Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, Dec. 29 @ 7pm (w/ London Souls)

London Souls / Alone / Here Come the Girls

 

Tarrant / Guilty / Lazarus – Garden Grove, Dec. 23 @ 8pm

 

Illiterate Light / Chest II (Living and Dying) / Earthworm – The Camel, Dec. 29 @ 8pm (w/ Wester Green, The Wimps, Shagwüf)

Shagwüf / .22 Blues / ¡SALVAJE!

The Wimps / Bloodline / The Wimps

 

NRBQ / Me and the Boys / Tiddlywinks – The Tin Pan, Dec. 23 @ 7pm

 

Cashmere Jungle Lords / Ode To Joy / Oodgie Boodgie Night Night – Poe’s Pub, Dec. 23 @ 9pm

 

We Call this Courage / The Good Fight / Chapters – Strange Matter, Dec. 29 @ 7pm (w/ Cutting Teeth, Sleave, A Collegiate Affair, Halfcast)

Sleave / Shell / Gold

 

Doubtfire / PAY / Demon Stration – Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project / Gallery 5, Dec. 23 (w/ Ochs, Burn/Ward, Buzzard Dust)

Buzzard Dust / Lush Hour / Buzzard Dust

Burn/Ward / VII / Black Friday

 

Lore / Shadows In the Shapes of Gods / Lore – Locals Only #24 / Strange Matter, Dec. 28 @ 8pm (w/ Half Decent, Extant Deth, Oozing Meat)

Extant Deth / Guilt Trips / Extant Deth

 

Aca / I Made This Because You Never Text Back / single – Strange Matter, Dec. 27 @ 6pm (w/ Yng Book, The Don (RRRM), Zach Thomas, ASK, Dyfferant Demeanor, OG Illa, Van Silk, Fuggin Doe, Yung SK, Pierce Love)

 

Stephanie / The Unicorn Head / Stephanie – Silent Night Holy Mountain / Strange Matter, Dec. 23 @ 6pm (w/ Fake Object, Coteries, Stone Garden Jam Temple, Stabbed In the Face, Jaguardini, Hyperwizard, Flesh Control)

Hyperwizard / Monograf Z / single

Jaguardini / Glitter / Skin & Bones

The Rain Within / Everything / Thunderheart

 

Even more shows (by date):

Fear of Music Holiday Bash – The Broadberry, Dec. 23 @ 8pm

The Trongone Band presents Home For The Holidays / The Broadberry, Dec. 26 & 27 @ 7pm (w/ Ron Holloway, South Hill Banks)

Indecision – The Camel, Dec. 26 @ 6pm

Groovinyasa + Druminyasa Collab – The Camel, Dec. 28 @ 5:30pm

Rasta Country – The Camel, Dec. 28 @ 9pm (w/ Burning Fire, Lunar Phases)

If I Can’t Dance: A DJ Night to benefit Gallery 5 & Hollaback – Gallery 5, Dec. 29 @ 8pm (Tracy Wilson, Sha Shakusky, Kenneth Close, James Munoz, Brad Perry, DJ Dead God)

Dark Star Orchestra Cosmic New Year – The National, Dec. 28 & 29 @ 7pm

Burns – Kabana Rooftop, Dec. 29 @ 9pm

The Spinners – Beacon Theatre, Dec. 29 @ 6:30pm

Spiritual Rez – Capital Ale House, Dec. 29 @ 8pm (w/ Litz)