Activate! October 19 - October 26

Activate!Activate! October 19 – October 26

Since the Gainesville Fest is next weekend, scores of punk and hardcore bands are stopping through Richmond on their way down. I'll tell you where you can catch them and a lot of others tonight starting at 7pm, including a song by Mutwawa (pictured). I also have tickets to Beirut and Minus the Bear to give away!

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ACTIVATE! 10-19-11

The Tillers / George Street Beat / diy – Balliceaux, Oct. 23 @ 10pm (w/ Rattlemouth)

The Atkinsons / You Could Go / diy  – Bogart's, Oct. 22 @ 9pm

Mason Brothers / Killer / diy – Cary Street Cafe, Oct. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Farm Vegas)

The Rosebuds / Second Bird of Paradise / Merge – The Camel, Oct. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Goldrush, White Laces)

Double Rainbow / Don't Sing Like This / diy – Strange Matter, Oct. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Little Gold)

Isaiah & Hovey / Kerosene / diy – Clash Party / Kingdom, Oct. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Young Richmond Outcasts, POMC, Ratchet City, Wize, Major, Q Dot, G Nyce, Cooli high, Die Hard Boyz, Ms. Vicious, Krown City, Dutchess, Jayginia)

Eclectic Method / 8bit Mixtape / diy – Canal Club, Oct. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Sonic Spank, Josati)

Conspirator / Velvet Red / Diamond Riggs – Canal Club, Oct. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Ghost Payne, The Former Champions)

Beruit / Nantes / Ba Da Bing – The National, Oct. 25 @ 7pm (w/ Basia Bulat)

Army Navy / Right Back Where We Started From / Fever Zone – The Camel, Oct. 23 @ 9pm (w/ Santah, Dogs on Main Street)

Minus the Bear / Thanks for the Killer Game of Crisco Twister / Suicide Squeeze – The National, Oct. 20 @ 7pm (w/ The Velvet Teen)

Icon Gallery / More Than Memory / Dear Skull – Benefit for Legal Defense / Nile, Oct. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Soma, Whoa!)

The Meatmen / God's Bullies / Touch & Go – Bandito's, Oct. 24 @ 9pm (w/ Pistol Whip Nicky)

Creamers / Modern Day / Jolly Dream – Strange Matter, oct. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Dry Spell, Southside Stranglers)

Timeshares / Sarah Send Your Driver / Kiss of Death – Ask a Punk, Oct. 25 @ 7pm (w/ The Great Explainer, Luther, Bangers)

Nothington / This Conversation Ends / BYO – The Camel, Oct. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Cobra Skulls, Haverchucks, Landmines)

Landmines / Turn It Up, Tear It Down / Paper + Plastick

Banner Pilot / Skeleton Key / Fat Wreck  – The Camel, Oct. 24 @ 5pm (w/ The Flatliners, Dead to Me,  The Mezingers, The Arteries, Leagues Apart)

The Flatliners / July August Reno / Fat Wreck

Dead to Me / By the Throat / Fat Wreck

Pure Graft / Drinkin' at the Pantheon Bar / Specialist Subject – Ask a Punk, Oct. 23 @ 7pm (w/ Sundials, Cheyenne, Carved Our Names In Snow)

Make Do and Mend / Insomniac Jams / Paper + Plastick – The Camel, Oct. 26 @ 8pm (w/ Worn In Red, Polar Bear Club, Broadside, Soul Control)

Polar Bear Club / See the Wind / Bridge 9

Worn In Red / As Best We Can / No Idea

400 Blows / We Killed Like Champions / GSL – Strange Matter, Oct. 23 @ 9pm (w/ Hex Machine, Flechette, Fire Bison)

The Fucking Wrath / Don't Look Back / Tee Pee – Strange Matter, Oct. 2 4 @ 9pm (w/ Thrones, Danava, Hull)

Hull / Deliverance / The End

Weak Teeth / And They Shall Inherit the Earth / The Cottage – Strange Matter, Oct. 25 @ 9pm (w/ City of Ships, Real Talk, Apart)

City of Ships / Evidence Based Medicine / Forcefield

Balaclava / Fences / Forcefield – Record Release / Strange Matter, Oct. 26 @ 9pm (w/ Elitist, Cough, Sea of Bones)

Mutwawa / Spyra Sphinx / CNP – Cheap Fest 3 / Strange Matter, Oct. 22 @ 7pm (w/ Flood Beast, Champagne Of Rats, Monolith Zero, Broadcaststatic, Teen Dreams, Vveed Vvulf, Sacajaweeda, Microwave Windows, Dave Smolen / Hairloss, Suicide Magnets, Zack Kouns, HNY, Frailty Of Angels, Reverse Baptism, Contortionist Jazz Exotica, Head Molt, Sex Complex, Pregnant Spore, Heavy Breathing, Tinitustimulus, Fun, Drums Like Machine Guns, Cheezface, Abiku, Radio Shock, Shams)

Shams / Pillow Talk / diy

Drums Like Machine Guns / Sk8 or Don't / diy