Activate! July 17 - July 24

Activate!Activate! July 17 – July 24

If you're unsure of what bands you want to see live this week in Richmond, tune into Activate! at 7pm. I have about 35 choices, including a new track from Mighty Joshua (pictured), who's playing a Record Release show. Plus, I'll also give away tickets to see Giraffes?Giraffes! at Gallery 5, Turbo Fruits at Gallery 5, and Kurt Vile & the Violators in Charlottesville!

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Activate! 7/17/13

Mighty Joshua / Mighty Joshua / diy – Record Release / Balliceaux, July 18 @ 9:30pm

Bluejay / Love Me / diy – Helen's, July 21 @ 7pm (w/ Swamptrees, Rivers Crude)

The Woodshedders / Viper James / diy – CD Release / The Camel, July 18 (w/ The Green Boys)

American Aquarium / Rattlesnake / Last Chance – The Camel, July 24 @ 8pm (w/ Brett Harris, Buttertub)

Stag Baron / Larry's Song / diy – Cary Street Cafe, July 20 @ 10pm (w/ The Kindling Kind)

Kurt Vile & the Violaters / KV Crimes / Matador – The Jefferson in Charlottesville, July 19 @ 8pm (w/ Swirlies, Dead Professional)

Parentheses / Royale With Cheese / diy – The Camel, July 22 @ 8pm (w/ East Coast Secondaries, Icarus the Owl)

Motive / What's So Bad / diy  – Strange Matter, July 21 @ 7pm (w/ Kisses, Atom Eyes, Herro Sugar, Those Manic Seas)

Kisses / Funny Heartbeat / diy

Claire Morgan / Battleship Heart / diy – WRIR & Commonwealth of  Notions Presents / Strange Matter, July 18 @ 9pm (w/ WolfGoat, Sea of Storms, Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat)

The Diamond Center / Dos Fridas / diy – WRIR & Commonwealth of  Notions Presents / Balliceaux, July 19 @ 10:30pm (w/ DJ Paul G, DJ Jamie Lay, Revolt of the Apes)

Adah / Her Voice Shook the Bones In Her Impossibly Frail Body / Someday This Will All Make Sense – WRIR & Commonwealth of  Notions Presents / Gallery 5, July 20 @ 3pm (w/ Lobo Marino, Herro Sugar, Way Shape or Form, Tungs, MUTWAWA, Navi, Warren Hixson, Baby Help Me Forget)

Warren Hixson / Paint the Sink / diy

Herro Sugar / Fat Jackson / diy – The Camel, July 23 @ 8pm (w/ Banshee Beat, Goldtooth, Various Eggs)

Hoax Hunters / In the Background / diy – WRIR & Commonwealth of  Notions Presents / Bandito's, July 21 @ 9pm (w/ Tyrannosaurus Awesome, Heavy Midgets)

Turbo Fruits / Where the Stars Don't Shine / Serpents & Snakes – Gallery 5, July 23 (w/ Hoax Hunters, Houdan the Mysic)

Priests / Leave Me Alone / Sister Polygon – Ask a punk, July 18 (w/ Will Bollinger)

Plastic Visions / Love Hate / diy – Strange Matter, July 24 (w/ The Sediment Club, Truck Stanley's Night Dreams, Roseanne, Short Skirts)

Plow United / Dance (Better Than I've Ever Seen) / Coolidge – The Camel, July 19 @ 9pm (w/ Pet Symmetry, Martin, Sundials, This is Your Life)

Lemuria / Dream Eater / Bridge 9 – Strange Matter, July 18 @ 5pm (w/ Positive No, The Haverchucks)

Positive No / Powers of Ten / Little Black Cloud – The Well, July 20 @ 10:30pm (w/ Left & Right)

The Haverchucks / I Won't Try / diy – Strange Matter, July 20 @ 9pm (w/ Roman Holiday, Slugz, Red Dons)

Red Dons / Everyday Distraction / Deranged

Giraffes? Giraffes! / Curse of the Tooth Nightmare / diy – Gallery 5, July 18 (w/ New Turks, Goddard, Promethean, Navi)

Goddard / The Resonant Frequency of Plastic is in 3/8 / Temporal

Northern Liberties / Midnight Train to the Dogfood Factory/ WorldEater – Strange Matter, July 19 @ 9pm (w/ Candidate Demo, Caves Caverns, Stone Garden Jam Temple)

Restorations / Civil Inattention / SideOneDummy – The Camel, July 21 @ 7pm (w/ Signals Midwest, run Forever, Close Talker, You'll Live)

The Reptilian / PAN (sucks) / Count Your Lucky Stars – Ask a punk, July 20 @ 7pm (w/ Alta, Freaky J & the Bears, Placeholder, Truman)

Masked Intruder / 25 to Life / Fat Wreck – Strange Matter, July 23 @ 9pm (w/ The Haverchucks, Elway, Sam Russo)

The Draft / Lo Zee Rose / Epitaph – Kingdom, July 18 @ 7pm (w/ Luther, Cheap Girls)

Cheap Girls / Through to Me / Paper + Plastick

Bitter Resolve / C85 Omicron Velorum Cluster / Strangelet – Strange Matter, July 20 @ 9pm (w/ Lugweight, Sinister Haze, Stampede)

Stampede / When The Universe Sends Galactic Imperialists To Conquer The Void / diy

Time Machines / Nervous Breakdance / diy – Sounds of RVA Showcase / Bogart's, July 20 @ 9pm (w/ Sea of Storms, Everyone Dies in the End)

Machinist / Of My Tongue / Speedowax – Wonderland, July 19 @ 9pm (w/ Crater, Rebel Scum)

Stoic Violence / Wretched Existence / Video Disease – Ask a punk, July 24 @ 7:30pm (w/ Mercy Killings, Nightstalker, Cretins)

Loma Prieta / Fly By Night / Deathwish Inc. – Strange Matter, July 19 @ 4pm (w/ Full of Hell, Dial Up, Fucking Invincible)

Mincemeat or Tenspeed / Body Mask / diy – Strange Matter, July 22 @ 9pm (w/ Some Pepper, Unguent, Mutwawa)

Even more shows:

Psychobilly Cadillac – The National, July 19 @ 6:30pm (w/ Brickwall Jackson, the X-Band)

The Great Dismal Swamis – Ask a punk, July 19 @ 8pm (w/ the Milkstains, The Rodney kings, lisa Doll & the Rock and Roll Romance)

River City Band – Benefit for CJ's Thumbs Up Foundation / Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 20 @ 12 noon (w/ East of Afton, Rattlesnake Creek, Randy Waller, Cary Street Ramblers, The Taters, Becky Taylor, Roger Reynolds & Co.)

Antero – The Camel, July 20 @ 9pm (w/ Photosynthesizers)

No BS Brass Band – Mingus Awareness Project / Balliceaux, July 21 & 22 @ 9pm