Activate! June 18 - June 25

Activate!Activate! June 18 – June 25

If you have friends in town, why not take them to a show? At 7pm, I'll give you a bunch to choose from, including The Nighthawks who have a CD release show,  Sight Obscene who will appear at Gallery 5's metal night, a new track from The Trillions, and Farm Vegas (pictured) who are reuniting for a benefit show! Plus, I'll give away tickets to see Band of Horses tomorrow night and Jake Bugg Saturday night, both at The National!

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ACTIVATE! 6-18-14

Black Masala / Feels the Same / diy – Balliceaux, June 20 @ 9pm

The Nighthawks / You're Gone / Ellersoul – CD Release / Capital Ale House, June 22 @ 5pm

Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys / Cackalack! / diy – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 21 @ 8pm

The Bo Stevens / Wreck of the Ole 97 / Brain Drain – Wonderland, June 20 @ 9pm (w/ Gojira Experiment)

Sweet Corn and Peanut / Take This However you Want / diy – Globehopper, June 25 @ 7pm

Farm Vegas / All I See / diy – Benefit for Robbie Wells / The Broadberry, June 20 @ 8pm (w/ Jackass Flats)

Megan Jean and the KFB / The Dead Show / diy – The Camel, June 21 @ 7pm (w/ Horsehead, Sleepwalkers)

Horsehead / All or Nothing / Emerald City

Stag Baron / Larry's Song / diy – Cary Street Cafe, June 21 @ 10pm (w/ Minimum Balance, Paul Ivey & the Rubes)

Band of Horses / Islands On the Coast / Sub Pop – The National, June 19 @ 7pm (w/ Susto)

St. Paul & the Broken Bones / Call Me / Single Lock – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, June 20 @ 5pm (w/ Houndmouth)

Herro Sugar / Fat Jackson / diy – The Broadberry, June 19 @ 7pm (w/ Boneanchor, Frog Legs, The Jailswerves)

Wool / Stars / diy – Gallery 5, June 25 @ 7pm (w/ Night Idea, Blanks, Spacemonster)

Crushed Purple / Video Fleam / diy – The Camel, June 25 @ 7pm (w/ Vega Omega, Invisible Landscapes)

Sunburned Hand of the Man / Yes, Your Highness / Records – Strange Matter, June 23 @ 9pm (w/ Tulsa, Floodbeast, IGM + Flesh Control, Bermuda Triangles)

Tulsa / Shaker / diy

Wooden Indian Burial Ground / White Bats / Monamie – Strange Matter, June 20 2 9pm (w/ Caves Caverns, Ian McColm, Acid Wash, Roy Wren, Among the Rocks and Roots)

Jail Weddings / You are Never Going to Find Me / Neurotic Yell – Strange Matter, June 24 @ 9pm (w/ The Shangri-Lords, Blanks, GG Woody Allen)

The Trillions / Extinction Blues / diy – The Camel, June 20 @ 9pm (w/ J Flax & the Heart Attacks, Y'all)

Daddy Long Legs / Death Train Blues / Norton – Bandito's, June 22 @ 9pm (w/ Lonely Teardrops)

Jake Bugg / What Doesn't Kill You / MM Music – The National, June 21 @ 7pm (w/ The Silver Palms)

Ultrasphinx / X is the Nth Lonliest Number / diy – Strange Matter, June 25 @ 9pm (w/ Hoax Hunters, Lightfields, Grass Panther)

Lust for Youth / Vibrant Brother / Sacred Bones – Strange Matter, June 22 @ 9pm (w/ Appetite, Lost Tribe, Daggering)

Lost Tribe / Psychic Death / Sacred Bones

White Mystery / Unteddy / Burger – Strange Matter, June 21 @ 9pm (w/ The Foam, Nervous Ticks, Dead Professional, DJ Charly Manson)

Tweens / Bored In this City / Frenchkiss – Strange Matter, June 19 @ 9pm (w/ Big Air, Christi, Cross Eyed)

Cross Eyed / Lose Me / diy

Feuding Fathers / Brass Knucks / diy – Strange Matter, June 22 @ 6pm (w/ Navi, Jaguardini)

Brandon Seabrook / Mucoidal Woolgathering / New Atlantis – Steady Sounds, June 22 @ 3pm (w/ Judith Berkson, Wreckless Eric)

Channel 43 / Old Number Seven / Strange Magic – The Camel, June 19 @ 7pm (w/ Industry Standard, Opposite Box)

Opposite Box / Boating Under the Influence / diy

Dead Yeti / Death By Radio / Manta Ray – Wonderland, June 21 @ 9pm (w/ Hex Machine)

Hex Machine / Chub / Learning Curve

Sight Obscene / Rule #666 / diy – Metal Night / Gallery 5, June 21 @ 8pm (w/ Abandon Earth, Bearstorm, Violent Spectrums)

MUTWAWA / Lamashtu Pazuzu / CNP – Balliceaux, June 19 @ 9:30pm (w/ Daggering, Network Glass)

Hyperbits / Layer Cake / Infrasonic – Electric Sky Dance Party / Canal Club, June 20 @ 9pm (w/ DJ Carter Baldwin, Dook & D-Rez)

Even more shows:

The Lauren Mitchell Band – Capital Ale House, June 19 @ 6pm

Samuel Barker – Globehopper, June 19 @ 7pm

Aer – Canal Club, June 20 @ 7pm

A Great Big World, The National, June 20 @ 7pm (w/ Jukebox The Ghost, Greg Holden)

Big Joe & the Dynaflows – Lulu's, June 20 @ 9pm

Red Hot Lava Men – Hardywood, June 21 @ 5pm (w/ The Milkstains, Hot Seats Shortband)

11th House – Emlio's, June 21 @ 10pm

Black Starliner Sound – The Nile, June 21 @ 10:30pm (w/ DJ AV, DJ Sephtekk)

Footwerk – Canal Club, June 22 @ 7pm (w/ Siix7, Taylor Melton, Lewis Greisheimer)

John McCutcheon – Tribute to Pete Seeger / Richmond Peace Education Center, June 22 @ 7pm

Mighty Monde & Friends – The Camel, June 22 @ 7pm

Richmanian Ramblers – Commercial Taphouse, June 22 @ 8pm

Sam Sims – Globehopper, June 23 @ 7pm

Jessy Carolina & the Hot Mess – Balliceaux, June 23 @ 9pm

Soul Asylum – Innsbrook Pavilion, June 25 (w/ Eve 6, Everclear, Spacehog)

Butcher Brown w/ Marcus Tenney – Balliceaux, June 25 @ 9:30pm