ACTIVATE! 12-8-16
Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)
The Nels Cline Trio / The Nomad’s Home / Coward – Gallery 5, Dec. 9
The New Mastersounds / Let’s Do Another / Made for Pleasure – The Broadberry, Dec. 13 @ 8pm (w/ Turkuaz)
Red Light Rodeo / Aces & Eights / Nothing But The Nuts – Capital Ale House, Dec. 10 @ 7pm (w/ Front Country, Wkndr)
Fort Defiance / Today I Told My Girl I Loved Her / Worry Has No Home – Crossroads, Dec. 10 @ 8pm
Landon Elliott & the Goods / Dagger / The Wildflowers – Album Release / The Camel, Dec. 10 @ 5:30pm (w/ Whatever Honey)
The Head and the Heart / Summertime / Let’s Be Still – The National, Dec. 15 @ 6:30pm (w/ Lucy Dacus, Joseph)
Koji / Distance-Divide / Crooked In My Mind – Strange Matter, Dec. 14 @ 7pm (w/ Furious George, The Weak Days, Living Rheum, The Homeless Gospel Choir)
Milky Chance / Down By the River / Sadnecessary – The National, Dec. 11 @ 6:30pm (w/ Knox Hamilton)
Local Natives / Past Lives / Sunlit Youth – The National, Dec. 12 @ 6:30pm
Houdan the Mystic / Chasing the Strobe / Archer’s Jamboree – The Camel, Dec. 10 @ 8pm (w/ Future Prospect, Ben Shepherd
Larusso / Jenga / single – The Camel, Dec. 12 @ 8pm (w/ Angelica Garcia, Captive, Colin Phils)
Colder Planets / Anemone / Some Strange Science – On the Rox, Dec. 9 @ 8pm (w/ Spacemere, The Talkies, Emily Pinkard, Appomattox Lead Foot, Gemini Love)
The Talkies / Emotion Sickness / Eyesie Spysies – Benefit for Side By Side / Gallery 5, Dec. 12 (w/ Comedy with Mary Jane French, Patrick Miller, Rachel Murphy)
Futurebirds / Twentyseven / Hotel Parties – Strange Matter, Dec. 9 @ 8pm (w/ The Trillions, Camp Howard)
Camp Howard / Heavy Blow / Camp Howard – Holidaze Party / The Camel, Dec. 15 @ 8pm (w/ Lobo Marino, Dharma Bombs, My Darling Fury)
Lightfields / What / Feelings – The Camel, Dec. 9 @ 8pm (w/ The Wimps, Get In the Car, Recluse Racoon)
Sad13 / Devil In U / Slugger – Strange Matter, Dec. 11 @ 8pm (w/ Vagabon, Told Slant, Emily Rio)
Vagabon / Shadows / Persian Garden
Bad Magic / Mama Song / koritfw – Hardywood, Dec. 9 @ 5pm (w/ Antiphons, Fat Spirit)
Fat Spirit / Daylight Savings / Super King
Derider / Doesn’t Hurt / Fail By Example – The Camel, Dec. 14 @ 9pm (w/ Lucid Traveler, The Dawn Drapes)
J Flax & the Heart Attacks / Two-Faced Valentine / 7″ – Hardywood, Dec. 10 @ 5pm (w/ Long Arms, Beex)
Reverend Horton Heat / Cruisin for a Bruisin / Liquor In the Front – The National, Dec. 9 @ 6:30pm (w/ Nashville Pussy, Unknown Hinson, Lucky Tubb)
Wahyas / Polarized Vision / 7″ – Strange Matter, Dec. 15 @ 9pm (w/ Screaming Kias, Toward Space, Cherry Pits)
Twin Peaks / Butterfly / Down In Heaven – Strange Matter, Dec. 10 @ 8pm (w/ Together Pangaea, Golden Daze)
Golden Daze / Never Comin’ Back / Golden Daze
Hellrazor / A Cool Mill / Satan Smile – Strange Matter, Dec. 13 @ 8pm (w/ Basmati, Nametags, Lance Bangs)
Earthless / Equus October / From the Ages – Strange Matter, Dec. 12 @ 8:30pm (w/ Ruby the Hatchet, Sinister Haze)
Ruby the Hatchet / Paralyzed / Eliminator
Crowbar / Falling While Rising / The Serpent Only Lies – The Broadberry, Dec. 9 @ (w/ Goatwhore, Lillake, Battlemaster)
Krang / Surfin’ On the Hudson / Shell Shocked – Ask a punk, Dec. 10 @ 7pm (w/ Half Bascule, RAIC, Gorrak)
Even more shows (by date):
Urban Hill – The Camel, Dec. 9 @ 5pm
A Crooner’s Christmas – w/ The Good Shot Judy Little BIG Band – The Tin Pan, Dec. 9 @ 7pm
Afro Zen Allstars – Garden Grove, Dec. 9 @ 8pm
Freddy Todd – Canal Club, Dec. 9 @ 8pm (w/ Space Apes, Groove Status, Eliot Lipp)
Kari Lynch – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Dec. 9 @ 8pm
Dammann/Davis/Niekrasz/Summerfield – Black Iris, Dec. 9 @ 9pm
Maximum Zero – Daddios, Dec. 9 @ 9pm (w/ Minimum Balance, Canary Promise, Herschel Stratego)
Andrew Alli& the Mainline – Savory Grain, Dec. 9 @ 10pm
Butcher Brown’s Holiday Spectacular – Cary Street Cafe, Dec. 9 @ 10pm
Lez Zeppelin – Beacon Theatre, Dec. 10 @ 6:30pm
Copeland – The Broadberry, Dec. 10 @ 7pm (w/ Rae Cassidy)
Slander & NGHTMRE present: Gud Vibrations – The National, Dec. 10 @ 8pm (w/ Habstrakt, KRNE)
Punks For Presents: Night 1 – Wonderland, Dec. 10 @ 9pm (w/ Zombie X-Mas, Elvzig, Celtic Frosty the Snowman)
Comedy Night SLOTH Benefit for PTSD and Suicide Awareness – 25 Watt, Dec. 10 @ 9pm
Books & Beer Holiday Brew-Ho-Ho – Hardywood, Dec. 11 @ 2pm
Drew & Erin’s Holiday Bash – The Camel, Dec. 11 @ 4:30pm (w/ Josh Small & Easy Company, Mount Lion, Alice & the Reverie)
SSS – Ask a punk, Dec. 11 @ 8:30pm (w/ Wandcarver, Buck Gooter, PhishStyx, Maask)
Kanna Kiehm& Organic Sound – The Camel, Dec. 11 @ 9pm
Among The Rocks and Roots – Bandito’s, Dec. 11 @ 10pm (w/ The New Loft)
Secretly Y’all: Screwged, A Guide to the Holidays – The Veil, Dec. 12 @ 6pm
Shooter Jennings – The Broadberry, Dec. 12 @ 7pm (w/ Jason Boland)
Rec Room: Live Local Beats – The Camel, Dec. 13 @ 8pm (w/ Ozark, Big Kahuna OG, Trilogy, D00f, Bstfrnd, Shy Lennox, Capt. Pizza, Oldneon)
Charenee Wade – Capital Ale House, Dec. 13 @ 6 & 9pm
Pierce the Veil – The National, Dec. 14 @ 6:30pm
John Pizzarelli – Camp Concert Hall, Dec. 14 @ 7pm (w/ Jessica Molaskey)
Punks for Presents Night 2 – Gallery 5, Dec. 15 @ 7pm (w/ Operation Icy, Unsung (Carols), Screeching Reindeer)
Nappy Roots – The Broadberry, Dec. 15 @ 8pm (w/ McKinley Dixon, Adam Jackson, JostoD)