Activate! July 9 - July 16

Activate!Activate! July 9 – July 16

Can I really fit over 35 bands into Activate! this evening? Probably not, but that's just a sample of your live music options this week in RVA. I'll be sure to include tracks from Sleepwalkers (pictured), Cat Be Damned, and Bone & Company who all have album release shows, plus I'll play a new song from Hoboknife and give away tickets to see Touche Amore at The Broadberry and Inter Arma at the Goodtimes Sunday Funfest metal fest in Fredericksburg!

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ACTIVATE! 7-9-14

Karikatura / Horns of Love / Ropeadope – Balliceaux, July 11 @ 10pm

Passafire / Start From Scratch / diy – The Broadberry, July 15 @ 8pm

Jay D. Clark / Most High / diy – The Camel, July 10 (w/ Midnight Spaghetti and the Chocolate G-Strings)

Willie Watson / Long John Dean / Acony – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 15 @ 8pm

Chris Milam / Any Day Now / diy – Globehopper, July 14 (w/ Myla Smith); Crossroads, July 16 @ 6pm (w/ Myla Smith)

Dogs On Main Street / Gallows / Church Hill – Hardywood, July 13 @ 3pm (w/ The Gantry, Dave Watkins)

Bone & Company / Friendly City Blues / diy – CD Release / Triple Crossing Brewery, July 11 @ 7pm

Sleepwalkers / Summertime / diy – Album Release / The Broadberry, July 11 @ 8pm (w/ Dead Professional, Black Girls)

Dead Fame / Lift / diy – Gallery 5, July 11 @ 7pm (w/ Weed Tree, On a Clear Day, Steady Sounds DJs)

On a Clear Day / Dry Martyr / diy

Broods / Taking You There / Polydor – The National, July 11 @ 7pm (w/ Nightmare and the Cat, The Griswolds, Those Manic Seas)

Toxic Moxie / Grand Illusion / diy – Strange Matter, July 12 @ 9pm (w/ Galvanize, Imaginary Sons, Headless Mantis)

Rigoletto / Vandals / diy – The Camel, July 13 @ 7pm (w/ Kiss Your Brother)

Kiss Your Brother / Champer Damper / diy

Castle of Genre / Sonder / diy – The Camel, July 13 @ 2pm (w/ Whitman)

Cat Be Damned / When Angels Gather Around / Mutt – Cassette Release / Gallery 5, July 10 2 7pm (w/ You're Jovian, Colamo, Whitman)

You're Jovian / Whalehead / diy

Deaf Scene / Red Shift / diy – The Camel, July 16 @ 7pm (w/ Galaxy Dynamite)

Night Idea / Losing the Magic of Youth / diy – Bandito's, July 13 @ 9pm (w/ Dave Watkins, Dumbwaiter)

Royal Blood / Come On Over / Black Mammoth – Canal Club, July 16 @ 7pm (w/ Gritter)

Touche Amore / Is Survived By / Deathwish Inc. – The Broadberry, July 12 (w/ Dads, Tigers Jaw)

Tigers Jaw / Frame You / Run For Cover

Spraynard / I'm Gonna look One More Time for that Baby Deer / Asian Man – Strange Matter, July 13 @ 5pm (w/ Crosseyed, Timeshares, Earth Girls)

Earth Girls / Unavailable / Grave Mistake

Wish / Fade / 6131 – Ask a punk, July 13 @ 6pm (w/ missives, Alienate You)

Kurraka / Viva el Ruido / diy – Ask a punk, July 12 @ 7pm (w/ Lost Tribe, Asylum, Drug Lust)

Appalachian Terror Unit / Black Sands / Profane Existence – Strange Matter, July 14 @ 9pm (w/ Cress, Asylum, Orgasm)

Cress / One / diy

Mutilation Rites / Realms of Dementia / Forcefield – Strange Matter, July 15 @ 9pm (w/ Hexer, Vorater, Devil's Hand)

Hoboknife / Genocide / diy – Strange Matter, July 10 @ 9pm (w/ Bastard Sapling, Alraune)

Inter Arma / 'sblood / Relapse – Goodtimes Sunday Funfest / KC's Music Alley, July 13 @ 12 noon (w/ Bastard Sapling, Foghound, Wasted Theory, Pain, Southern Slop, North Woods, Anu, Sundrainer, Late to the Party)

Foghound / Easy Come, Easy Go / Moving the Earth – Wonderland, July 11 @ 9pm (w/ Wasted Theory, Fire Faithful)

Fire Faithful / Don't Meddle / diy

Undergang / Obduktion / Dark Descent – Strange Matter, July 16 @ 9pm (w/ Trepanation, Astraes Pestis)

Even more shows:

John Pizzarelli – Hippodrome, July 11

The Big Guys – Hardywood, July 11 @ 5:30pm

Face Melt Friday w/ Black Liquid – Strange Matter, July 11 @ 7pm

Inquiry – EP Release / Canal Club, July 11 @ 7pm (w/ FS, Jomin Mujar, The Concussion Theory,The North)

The Slack Family Late Night Bluegrass Hootenanny – The Camel, July 11 @ 9pm

Everwilde – Capital Ale House, July 11 @ 10pm

The Big Payback – Hardywood, July 12 @ 2pm (w/ PhotoSynthesizers, Radio B)

Conditions – The National, July 12 @ 6pm (w/ Mayfair, Cosby)

Seraph – Canal Club, July 12 @ 7pm (w/ Abandon Earth, I am the Rapture, Violent Spectrums, Glitter Princess, Falling in Reverse Cowgirl, Ensnared Humanity Edthorned, Avalist)

The Flavor Project – EP Release / The Camel, July 12 @ 8pm

moe. – The National, July 15 @ 7pm