Activate! August 27 - September 3

Activate!Activate! August 27 – September 3

Hopefully you get some time off for Labor Day, time that you can spend seeing live music! Tonight at 7pm, I'll play a bunch of bands who will be working this week, including Way Shape or Form and Teargas Rock, both of whom have record release shows, and Peace Beast (pictured) who will be returing to the stage!

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ACTIVATE! 8-27-14

Way Shape or Form / Kind Song / diy – EP Release / Hardywood, Aug. 29 @ 5pm (w/ Claire Morgan, Anousheh)

Patient Barney Penrose / Hettie / diy – The Camel, Sept. 1 @ 7pm (w/ Energy 2000, Lili & the Dirty Moccasins)

Ragged Mountain String Band / Fort Smith Breakdown / Shake a Leg – The Camel, Aug. 29 @ 8pm

Will Overman Band / Ode to Virginia / diy – The Camel, Aug. 31 @ 2pm

Paul Waggener / Black Magic and Moonshine / diy – Helen's, Aug. 31 @ 9pm (w/ Matt Conner, Pat Reedy)

Ben Shepherd / Silver Dog / diy – Monument City, Aug. 28 @ 5pm (w/ Shannon Cleary, Patrick Bates)

Kevin Morby / Parade / Woodsist – Strange Matter, Aug. 31 @ 9pm (w/ Patrick bates, Steve Gunn)

Coldair / For Times / Twelves – Globehopper, Aug. 28 @ 7pm

Soft Cat / New Waltz / diy – Strange Matter, Sept. 3 @ 8pm (w/ Mutual Benefit)

Swear and Shake / These White Walls / diy – Capital Ale House, Aug. 29 @ 9pm

Ike as in Dwight / Planes / diy – The Camel, Aug. 28 @ 7pm (w/ Atoka Chase, Bow&Spear, So Judy)

Bow and Spear / Strike West / diy

Scully / Deny / That Summer Feeling – The Camel, Sept. 3 @ 7pm (w/ Candy Spots, Las Rosas)

Las Rosas / Black Cherry / diy

MV&EE / Susquehanna (Sole Art Trample) / Ecstatic Peace – Strange Matter, Sept. 2 @ 9pm (w/ Lili & the Dirty Moccasins, Peace Beast, Chemists)

Peace Beast / Unlike You / diy

People's Blues of Richmond / Black Cat / diy – The Camel, Aug. 30 @ 8pm (w/ Commonwealth)

Teargas Rock / Teargas Rock / Little Black Cloud – Record Release / Black Iris, Aug. 29 @ 7pm (w/ Positive No, Alarms & Controls)

Positive No / Automatic Cars / Negative Fun

Dinos Boys / Catapult / Slaughterhaus – Gallery 5, Aug. 30 @ 8pm (w/ Soft Time, Cherry Pits, Dirty Fences)

Dirty Fences / Sid / Volcom

Soft Time / Let Jesus Take the Wheel / diy

The Sediment Club / Orphan's Tongue / diy – Strange Matter, Sept. 1 @ 9pm (w/ Power Masters, Navi, Brown Piss, Dyrt)

Power Masters / Thought Criminal / diy

Black Wine / Flatland / Don Giovanni – Strange Matter, Aug. 29 @ 9pm (w/ Radical Dishcarge, Sacred Teachers)

Radical Discharge / Sent Down the Line / diy

Sacred Teachers / Bloody Cup / diy

Oblivionation / Language of Violence / diy – 25 Watt, Aug. 30 @ 9pm (w/ Creeping Dose, Cretins, Firing Squad)

Creeping Dose / Sucking Leach / diy

Gritter / Sayonara / diy – Bandito's, Aug. 31 @ 9pm (w/ JJ Speaks, I am the Liquor)

Widow / Take Hold of the Night / Pure Steel – Strange Matter, Aug. 30 @ 5pm (w/ The Immoralist, My Enemies & I, I the Reverend, I am The Rapture, Simple Obsession)

Dr. Fameus / Velvet Rope / diy – Audacity / The Broadberry, Aug. 31 @ 11am (w/ Orchard Lounge, Former Champions, Silo Effect, Dharma Initiative, Hubble Bash, Definition of One, Celtic Panda, Mongoose Variable, Funk Pimps, Reinhold, Agent, Phil Dice, Rometti, Bobby Labeat, Elliott Ness, MTK, Nicho, Zati, 8-Bit Runner, Groove Status, Charles B, Digipossum, Divergent, Ghost Payne, BWLR, Pressee)

8 Bit Runner / Hellblauer Geist / diy

Even more shows:

The Northerners – The Broadberry, Aug. 28 @ 8pm (w/ Mekong Express and the Get Fresh Horns)

Long Branch Ramblers – Twangtown Thursdays / Balliceaux, Aug. 28 @ 9pm

Motel Fire – On the Verge, Best of 804 Locals / The National, Aug. 29 @ 6:30pm (w/ Oh No & The Disappointments, Strongbow, Hot Air Affair, Big Mama Shakes)

The Shack Band – Album Release / Aug. 29 @ 9pm (w/ James Justin & Co.)

Spin, Spit & Swear – Cover to Cover featuring Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" / Hardywood, Aug. 30 2 7pm

Air Sex National Championships – Strange Matter, Aug. 30 @ 9:30pm

Classical Incarnations – Balliceaux, Aug. 31 @ 8pm

Mr. Baby – The Camel, Sept. 2 @ 7pm (w/ Flight of Salt)