Activate! February 20 - February 27

Activate!Activate! February 20 – February 27

There are so many ways to fill your days with live music this week and at 7pm, I'll give you over 30 suggestions! I'll be sure to play a track by Way Shape or Form (pictured) who are playing the Worthless Junk Triple Record Release Show, plus I'll be giving away tickets to see DC funksters Fort Knox Five, OG punk rocker Wreckless Eric, and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies and REM.

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Activate! 2/20/13

Papa Susso / Jawra Ya / Respite – Neighborhood Resource Center of Greater Fulton, Feb. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Hotel X, Balla Kouyate)

The Bumper Jacksons / Hot Tamales / diy – Rumble Seat Grill, Feb. 21 @ 6pm

Lobo Marino / Celebrate / diy – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theater, Feb. 26 @ 7:30pm (w/ Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat)

Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat / Howl-awoo-awoo / diy

Anna & Elizabeth / Heap of Horses / diy – Rear Gallery, Feb. 21 @ 4pm; Balliceaux, Feb. 21 @ 10pm

Fort Knox Five / Funk 4 Peace / diy – Canal Club, Feb. 22 @ 9pm (w/ All Good Funk Alliance, MC Flex Mathews, Groove Status, Hydrophonics)

OCD Moosh & Twist / City Kids / diy – Kingdom, Feb. 21 @ 7pm (w/ Huey Mack, Scuba)

Bad Rabbits / Neverland / diy – The Camel, Feb. 24 @ 8pm (w/ Children of the Night, DJ Ant Boogie)

Nick Thune / Stand-Up on Conan / diy – Gallery 5, Feb. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Bill Metzger, Manly Man)

Wreckless Eric / Whole Wide World / Stiff – Gallery 5, Feb. 24 @ 7pm (w/ Amy Rigby, Paul Ivey)

Netherfriends / Nunya / diy – The Nile, Feb. 22 @ 10:30pm (w/ Dave Watkins, Those Manic Seas, Dumbwaiter)

Those Manic Seas / Love is Treason / diy

Ken Stringfellow / Doesn't It Remind You of Something? / Spark & Shine – Gallery 5, Feb. 25 @ 7pm (w/ Canary Oh Canary, The Josephine)

Canary Oh Canary / Integrity Among Men / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Cusses, The Milkstains, New Turks)

Cusses / Blood Everywhere / Ha!

Snowy Owls / Fortunate Isles / Harding Street Assembly Lab – The Nile, Feb. 23 @ 10:30pm (w/ Tungs, Hot Dolphin, Heavy Midgets)

Double Rainbow / Don't Sing Like This / diy – Benefit for RVA Home Project / Strange Matter, Feb. 22 @ 9:30pm (w/ Bad Magic, White Laces, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, First Creature)

White Laces / Twinning / Speakertree

Super Vacations / Controller / Funny Not Funny – Strange Matter, Feb. 22 @ 5pm (w/ Ar-Kaics, PC Worship)

PC Worship / Back In Time / New Images

Punch Button / California / diy – Bogart's, Feb. 23 @ 9pm

Time Machines / Nervous Breakdance / diy – Strange Matter, Feb. 27 @ 9pm (w/ Captives, Freaky J & the Bears)

Captives / Repeater / diy

Useless Eaters / Death Gripping / Jeffery Drag – The Green Room, Feb. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Ar-Kaics, Naked Baby)

The Queers / Surf Goddess / Asian Man – The Camel, Feb. 27 @ 8pm (w/ Teenage Bottlerocket, Masked Intruder)

Teenage Bottlerocket / Forbidden Planet / Fat Wreck

Way Shape or Form / Medicine Book / Worthless Junk – Triple Record Release show / The Camel, Feb. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Shy Low, Cheyenne, Night Idea)

Cheyenne / High Five / Worthless Junk

Shy Low / Heavy hands / Worthless Junk

Pallbearer / An Offering of Grief / Profound Lore – Strange Matter, Feb. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Street Pizza, Cough, Fuck the Facts)

Cut the Architect's Hand / Rats On Stilts / diy – Wonderland, Feb. 23 @ 9pm (w/ 45 AD)

45 AD / A Fiery Gift / diy

Decapitated / Eternity Too Short / Nuclear Blast – Kingdom, Feb. 25 @ 6pm (w/ Seraph, Dismantle the Architect, Darkshores, The Faceless)

More shows this week:

Boxer – Strange Matter, Feb. 21 @ 5pm (w/ With the Punches, Far From Proper, Broadside, First Class Liar)

Zoogma – Canal Club, Feb. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Aligning Minds)

Aspiga – Ask a punk, Feb. 22 (w/ Heartwell, Folk the System, The Mothball Fleet)

Paulo Franco – Crossroads, Feb. 22 @ 8pm

Willy Joy – The National, Feb. 22 @ 8pm (w/ Long Jawns, Aetgy, M.A.S.S. FX, Elliot Ness)

Wrenn Mangum – Poe's Pub, Feb. 22 @ 9:30pm

Fire and Ice – Kingdom, Feb. 23 @ 6pm (w/ Hard Stripes, Sai Nam, Upperhand)

Allan Jabbour & Ken Pearlman – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, Feb. 23 @ 8pm

Caust – Ask a punk, Feb. 24 (w/ Congenital Death, This is Not For You, Kids, Dial Up, Truman)

Swaggerin' Growlers – Wonderland, Feb. 24 @ 9pm (w/ Threes Away, Creep-A-Zoids)

Houdan the Mystic – Strange Matter, Feb. 25 @ 9pm (w/ Perhaps, Parenthesis)

Mary Gauthier – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Feb. 26 @ 8pm

Niche – Strange Matter, Feb. 26 @ 9pm (w/ Fire Faithful, Men's Room, Devil At My Side)

Mod Sun – Kingdom, Feb. 27 @ 7pm (w/ Chetne, Cisco Adler, Pat Brown, Tayyib Ali)

Glows In the Dark – Balliceaux, Feb. 27 @ 10pm