Activate! February 27 - March 6

Activate!Activate! February 27 – March 6

Big shows, little shows, whatever, as long as you get a chance to hear the bands before they play Richmond. Your next preview happens tonight at 7pm, which will include a song by This Is Your Life (pictured) who are celebrating a record release, plus I'll give away tickets to see Thurston Moore's new band Chelsea Light Moving in Charlottesville!

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Activate! 2/27/13

Vulgar Bulgars / Odessa Bulgar / diy – Gallery 5, March 1 @ 7pm (w/ Matt Conner, Lobo Marino)

Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Inner City Blues / Mammoth – Capital Ale House, March 2 @ 8pm

Barrelhouse / Must Have Been the Shine / diy – Capital Ale House, March 1 @ 9pm (w/ Seth Stainback & Roosterfoot)

Dangermuffin / Walk Into the Wind / diy – The Camel, March 5 @ 9pm (w/ James Justin & Co., Paper Route)

Toy Soldiers / Tell the Teller / diy – The Camel, March 2 @ 9pm (w/ People's Blues of Richmond, Toxic Moxie)

The Simma Downs / Sole Exception / diy – Benefit for Dominion School for Autism / Canal Club, March 2 @ 7pm (w/ Leon Milmore, Flashlight Tag)

Derek Every / Tell Everyone / diy – The Camel, March 3 @ 8pm (w/ Red States, Ear Theory, Those Manic Seas)

Howling Winds / Moonlight Howl / diy – Wonderland, March 2 @ 9pm

Dead Professional / Bad Memory / diy – Ipanema, March 3 @ 10pm

Ducktails / Killin' the Vibe / Woodsist – Strange Matter, March 6 @ 9pm (w/ Chris Cohen, White Laces, Empress Of)

Snowmine / Saucer Eyes / diy – The Camel, March 6 @ 8pm (w/ Lightfields)

Dead Fame / My Body My Fool / diy – Bandito's, March 3 @ 9pm (w/ Dead Leaf Echo)

Dead Leaf Echo / Conception / Neon Sigh

Chelsea Light Moving / Groovy & Linda / Matador – The Southern, March 4 @ 7pm (w/ Talk Normal)

Tweens / Be Mean / diy – Strange Matter, March 4 @ 9pm (w/ Tyrannosaurus Awesome, Peace Beast, Age of Asparagus)

Lisa Doll & the Rock and Roll Romance / 666ick of It / diy – Strange Matter, March 2 @ 9pm (w/ Eurotics, Hot Dolphin, Harsh Realm)

The Headies / Things Inside of Me / Runner Up – Ask a punk, March 4 @ 7pm (w/ Brave Bird, Sundials, Warm Needles, Jake Mayday)

Turnover / Solitude / diy – Kingdom, March 1 @ 5:30pm (w/ PJ Bond, Diamond Youth, High Regard)

Unholy Thoughts / Earthquake / Forcefield  – Strange Matter, March 3 @ 5pm (w/ Damaged Goods, Blind Ignorance, Altered Boys)

Altered Boys / Timebomb / diy

This is Your Life / Purgatory / Reveille – Record Release / The Nile, Feb. 28 @ 10:30pm (w/ Sea of Storms, Close Talker, Jake Mayday)

Sea of Storms / Blly Full of Bones / diy

Direct Effect / Lazy Boy / Got – Ask a punk, March 1 @ 7pm (w/ Hold Tight!, Thanks)

H20 / Nothing to Prove / Bridge 9 – Kingdom, March 3 @ 6pm (w/ Terror, Backtrack, Code Orange Kids)

Terror / Push It Away / Bridge 9

The Catalyst / Lars Ulrich's 1986 Funeral / Perpetual Motion Machine – Strange Matter, March 1 @ 9pm (w/ Count Von Count, Olde Shame, Suppression)

Howl / Gods In Broken Men / Relapse – Strange Matter, March 3 @ 9pm (w/ Gritter, Cut the Architect's Hand)

Gritter / Hit the Ground Running / diy – The National, March 2 @ 5:30pm (w/ Mensrea, Indebt, Stirke the Chord and Burn, Afterlyfe, Spiral Fracture, Mobile Death Camp)

Mensrea / Fading Grey / Karma – Wonderland, March 3 @ 9pm (w/ Mobile Death Camp)

Vattnet Viskar / Weakness / Broken Limbs – Strange Matter, March 5 @ 9pm (w/ Hivelords, Crater)

Hivelords / Upon Arrival at the Grim Structure / diy

Pilgrim / Astaroth / Metal Blade – Strange Matter, Feb. 28 @ 9pm (w/ Druglord, Unsacred, Samothrace)

A Life Once Lost / Gnawing Lisp / Seasons of Mist – Kingdom, March 6 @ 7pm

Nile / Papayrus Containing the Spell to preserve its Possesor from He Who is in the Water / Nuclear Blast – Kingdom, March 5 @ 6pm (w/ Cannabis Corpse, Dismantle the Architect, Death From Massive Damage)

Abakus / Cruise Control / diy – Canal Club, Feb. 28 @ 9pm (w/ The Polychrons)

No BS Brass Band – Balliceaux, Feb. 28 @ 10pm

DJ Williams Project – Canal Club, March 1 @ 9pm (w/ The Inflatables, Grapefruit Fred)

The Southern Belles – The Camel, March 1 @ 9pm (w/ Moogatu)

Louis Logic – Ask a punk, March 2 (w/ Mega Ran, Black Liquid, Swordplay, PT Burnem, James Dangle, Sleazie Wonder)

My First Castle – Ask a punk, March 3 @ 7pm (w/ Secret Plot to Destroy the Entire Universe)