Activate! June 26 - July 3

Activate!Activate! June 26 – July 3

After 2 weeks in Tennessee, checking out our country, blues, and rock 'n roll meccas, I'm back to help you check out current bands scheduled to play in Richmond, VA. I'll include a bunch of bands playing the 4-day Huff Fest, a benefit for an injured member of the band Paint Fumes (pictured).

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Activate! 6-26-13

Elby Brass / Kings Got His Crown Back / diy – The Camel, June 28 @ 9pm (w/ The Green Boys)

DJ Williams Projekt / Hypnotizer / Harmonized – 10 Year Anniversary / Capital Ale House, June 28 @ 9:30pm

Gracie Curran & the High Falutin' Band / Can't Getta / diy – Lulu's, June 28 @ 9pm (w/ Lydia Warren)

Two-Man Gentlemen Band / The Hindenburg Disaster / diy – Balliceaux, June 28 @ 10pm (w/ The Hot Seats)

Brownbird Rudy Relic / Stranger Here Blues / Reltone – Balliceaux, June 27 @ 10pm (w/ Alison Self)

Bandcamp Anousheh / Haloes for Hellfire / diy  – OK Tornado Benefit / Gallery 5, July 1 @ 7pm (w/ The Kindling Kind)

Parker Smith & the Bandwith / Eloise / diy – The Camel, July 1 (w/ Jon Barnes Band, BTW w/ Bathany Taulbee)

The Congress / Loretta / diy – The Camel, June 27 @ 9pm (w/ People’s Blues of Richmond)

The Moonbees / Decorating Your Own Cage / Syjip – Bogart’s, June 30 @ 7pm

Dead Fame / Lift / diy – Bandito’s, June 30 @ 9:30pm (w/ Toxic Moxie)

Cashmere Jungle Lords / Ode to Joy / Little Abner – The National, June 28 @ 6:30pm (w/ Trailer Court Marshals, Jack Graham Band)

Hypercolor / Told You Once / diy – Gallery 5, June 28 @ 7pm (w/ Silversmiths, Glass Twin)

Silversmiths / Son / diy

Gold Tooth / Love Riot / diy – Bogart’s, June 28 @ 9pm (w/ Various Eggs, Banshee Beat)

The Taxpayers / Man in White / Useless State – Ask a punk, June 29 @ 8pm (w/ Jake Mayday, Pedals On Our Pirate Ships, Harrison Four)

Lisabi / Dialetica / diy – Strange Matter, July 1 @ 9pm (w/ Romesco)

Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band / I-94 / diy – Ask a punk, June 30 @ 7pm (w/ Double Rainbow, 6TA, Soundtrack to Sleep)

Navi / Boo Boo / diy – HuffFest Day 1 / Gallery 5, June 27 @ 7pm (w/ Canary Oh Canary, Wymyns Prysyn, James Badfellows)

Wymyns Prysyn / Pay Day / Scavenger of Death

Paint Fumes / Space Cadet / Slovenly – HuffFest Day 2 / Strange Matter, June 28 @ 8pm (w/ Sacred Teachers, Nervous Ticks, Naked Baby, Big No, Christi)

Big No / I Know You're Always Right / diy

Paradox / Tombs / diy – HuffFest Day 3 / Strange Matter, June 29 @ 8pm (w/ Hot Dolphin, Olde Shame, Bermuda Triangles, Buck Gooter, Ar-Kaics)

Ar-Kaics / Givin Up / diy – Strange Matter, June 30 @ 9pm (w/ The Hussy, Banshee Beat, Christi)

The Hussy / Blame / Southpaw

Malatese / Intro-Time Mask / diy – HuffFest Day 4 / Gallery 5, June 30 (w/ Death Cassettes, Heavy Midgets, Tungs, BBQT)

Heavy Midgets / Glory Days / diy

Mixtapes / Elevator Days / No Sleep – Kingdom, June 27 @ 5pm (w/ You Blew It, Light Years, Modern Baseball, Prophet Margin, The Great Dismal, Worth Our While)

You Blew It / Hope It's Not a Deposit Bottle / Topshelf

Direct Hit! / Fallout Shelter television / diy – Ask a punk, June 27 @ 7pm (w/ Iron Reagan, Hold Tight, Close Talker, Men's Room)

Close Talker / Tales of Distrust and Cynicism / Stay Sweet

This is Your Life / High Tide / Reveille – Kingdom, June 28 @ 5pm (w/ versus Angels, The Life Review, Navaeh)

The Sawyer Family / Why Did God Create? / diy – Strange Matter, July 3 @ 9pm (w/ US Brass, Tex Railer's Doomtown, Creep-A-Zoids)

Tex Railer's Doomtown / Of the Sea / Wayward Parade

US Brass / Crash and Burn / Beefhog

Stunna / Lost In the Rain / Soundtrax – Turnstyle 10 Year Anniversary / The Camel, June 29 (w/ The Insiders)

Even more shows:

Infamous Stringdusters – Friday Cheers / Browns Island, June 28 @ 6pm (w/ James Justin & Co.)

The Bumper Jacksons – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 28 @ 8pm

Ghost Owl – Canal Club, June 28 @ 9pm (w/ Arpetrio)

Tiny Boxes – Cary Street Café, June 28 @ 10pm (w/ The Downtown Connection)

Manic Focus – The Camel, July 2 @ 9pm (w/ Peruvian Pineapple, Ethan Glass, Bassdread)