Activate!

Activate! January 26 – February 2

Mike Rutz

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

Thoughts On Standby / Walked Into The Ocean and Never Stopped / single – Crossroads, Jan. 27 @ 7:30pm

Devil Makes Three / Champagne And Reefer / Redemption & Ruin – Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, Jan. 29 @ 7pm (w/ Lost Dog Street Band)

Rhett Miller / Love Grows / The Dreamer – The Tin Pan, Feb. 2 @ 7pm

The Plate Scrapers / Volkswagen Breakdown / Contact – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 27 @ 10pm

Oh, Jeremiah / Sinking Ship / The Other End of Passing Time – The Camel, Feb. 2 @ 8pm (w/ McKinley Dixon, Dharma Bombs)

Eric Krasno Band / Waiting On Your Love / Blood From a Stone – The Broadberry, Feb. 2 @ 8pm (w/ Marcus King Band)

Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven / Rebirth / Beathoven – The Broadberry, Feb. 1 @ 8pm

Zooanzoo / Alcohol / single – Strange Matter, Jan. 31 @ 8pm (w/ Dazeases, backwards Haus, Afrocat, Heja Rames, Yoki, Alfred)

Dizzyride / Metallic Touch / Dizzyride – Gallery 5, Jan. 29 @ 7pm (w/ Sha Shakusky, YaYa, Lokomoko)
Lokomoko / I Came As A Friend / single

Dream Wave / Missing Home / Missing Home – Strange Matter, Jan. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Blush Face, Antiphons)
Antiphons / Jon & Kelly / Groan

Colin Phils / I Think Your Name is a Good One / ersomsa – The Camel, Jan. 31 @ 8pm (w/ Vanilla Summit, Colin Phils, Larusso)

Night Idea / Wild / Breathing Cold – Hardywood, Jan. 28 @ 5pm (w/ Opin, Thumper, The Bronzed Chorus)
The Bronzed Chorus / Don’t Go To That Pool Party / Summering

Joan of Arc / Night Life Style / Life Like – Strange Matter, Jan. 30 @ 8pm (w/ Various Eggs, Magas)

One Friend / Veritas Splendor / Marquees – Strange Matter, Feb. 2 @ 8pm (w/ Aspidistra, Buddy List, New Star)

Toxic Moxie / 86 Tomorrow / VHS Box Set – A Farewell to OUR House / The Camel, Jan. 28 @ 8pm (w/ Imaginary Sons, Headless Mantis)
Imaginary Sons / Small Talk Headlock / Don’t Impress Me

A Woman is a Woman / The Ravenous / single – The Camel, Jan. 30 @ 7pm (w/ Midnight Affiliate, Venus Guytrap)
Venus Guytrap / 34 / Live on WRIR

DJP and MrT / I Got This / Won’t Be Tamed – Hardywood, Jan. 27 @ 5pm (w/ Dave Watkins, Grass Panther)
Grass Panther / Your Mission / Vignette

Truckfighters / Mind Control / Universe – Strange Matter, Feb. 1 @ 8pm (w/ Kings Destroy, Stone Woman, Gritter)
Kings Destroy / Mr. O / Kings Destroy

Alter / Walls / Embers – 25 Watt, Feb. 2 @ 8:30pm (w/ Eyelet, Samarra)

Toke / Within The Sinister Void / Orange – 25 Watt, Jan. 28 @ 8pm (w/ Aneurysm, Goya, Mangalitsa, Forest of Legend)
Goya / Last / The Enemy

Hoboknife / Bleakest Reprimand / Vagrants – Bandito’s, Jan. 29 @ 9pm (w/ Reaches, Buck Gooter)

Nick Millevoi Desertion Trio / Desertion and the Arsonist’s Match / Desertion – The Camel, Jan. 29 @ 7pm (w/ Scott Clark 6tet)

Even more shows (by date):

The New Stew: Featuring Corey Glover and Roosevelt Collier – Capital Ale House, Jan. 27 @ 7pm

Marc Broussard – The Tin Pan, Jan. 27 @ 7pm (w/ Jamie McLean Band)

The Broken Commandments – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Southbound Hounds)

Runaway Gin, A Tribute to Phish – The Camel, Jan. 27 @ 9:30pm

Southpaw Battle Coalition presents “Baptism by Fire” – Strange Matter, Jan. 28 @ 3pm (w/ Team Blitz vs. Team Mick Murda. Radio Blitz, [Hidden Character], Breeze the Poet, Blood Code, Cane, Henny Lo, Ray Manley, Blake Winters, J Morr, Mick Murda, Trill Nik, Ciroc O’Trauma, I Got Bars, Vito Cognac, Awthenticc)

The K.O.D.E Reunion – Beacon theatre, Jan. 28 @ 6:30pm (w/ Audiovault)

Janet Martin – The Tin Pan, Jan. 28 @ 7pm

Yosvany Terry and the Afro-Cuban Sextet – U of R, Jan. 28 @ 7:30pm

Matthew O’Donnell – Crossroads, Jan. 28 @ 7:30pm

Anne Akiko Meyers – Singleton Center, Jan. 28 @ 8pm

The Big Guys – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Jan. 28 @ 8pm

Kodak Black – The National, Jan. 28 @ 8pm

Emo Night Brooklyn – Canal Club, jan. 28 @ 9pm (w/ Conditions, Kept At Bay, Underdog Champs, Inquiry, She’s A Legend)

Dalton Dash – Cary Street Cafe, Jan. 28 @ 10pm (w/ South Hill Banks)

Aerica Lauren – Crossroads, Jan. 29 @ 5:30pm

Shawn Mullins – The Tin Pan, Jan. 29 @ 5:30pm (w/ Rick Brantley)

Leech – Strange Matter, Jan. 29 @ 8pm (w/ Grace Street Players, Andrew Bayne)

My Way – The Camel, Feb. 1 @ 8pm (w/ Luminous Being, Urban Sloth, Lucid Traveler)

Red Light Rodeo – Cary Street Cafe, Feb. 1 @ 10pm

Aaron Lebos Reality – Cary Street Cafe, Feb. 2 @ 10pm