Activate! June 11 - June 18

Activate!Activate! June 11 – June 18

Big ups to Michael Miracle, Melissa, and Shannon Cleary for taking care of Activate! while I was in Peru. Tonight, I return with the official concert calendar for your ears, including tracks from Lightfields and Cardinal Compass, both of whom have album release shows, as well as Kepone (pictured) and other bands playing the Dave Brockie/Cory Smoot tribute show. Plus, I'll give away tickets to see Lake Street Dive at The National!

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ACTIVATE! 6-11-14

Funky Meters / Wha'cha Say / Reprise  – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, June 13 @ 6pm (w/ Mekong Xpress and The Get Fresh Horns)

Alma Tropicalia / Globo da Morte / diy – Balliceaux, June 13 @ 10:30pm

Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends / Roll With Me / diy – Crossroads, June 12 @ 8pm

Cardinal Compass / All I've Got / diy – EP Release / The Camel, June 18 @ 7pm (w/ ADS, Fool's Errand)

Tumbling Bones / I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / diy – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 12 @ 8pm

John Prine / In Spite of Ourselves / Oh Boy – Carpenter Center, June 14 (w/ Carlene Carter)

Jerry Joseph / Pony / Cosmo Sex School – The Camel, June 15 @ 7pm

Lake Street Dive / Bad Self Portraits / Signature Sounds – The National, June 12 @ 8pm (w/ Sun Parade)

Kevin Devine / Nobel Prize / Favorite Gentleman – Capital Ale House, June 15 @ 7pm

The Moonbees / Soon We're Gone / Aunt Mary – The Camel, June 17 @ 8pm (w/ Energy 2000, Drift Wood Miracle, Cake & Calculus)

Quiet Company / And You Said it Was Pretty Here / diy – The Camel, June 12 @ 7pm (w/ Driver Friendly, Leader)

Axxa/Abraxas / I Almost Fell / Captured Tracks – Strange Matter, June 17 @ 9pm (w/ Black Water Gold, Mainline, Welcome Hips)

Tiny Victories / Systems / Sleepover Party – The Camel, June 14 @ 7pm (w/ Black Girls, Family and Friends Band, Sons of Hippies)

Lightfields / Junior / diy – Album Release / The Broadberry, June  13 @ 8pm (w/ 6 Track Amateur, Toxic Moxie)

Somos / Dead Wrong / Tiny Engines – The Camel, June 13 @ 8:30pm (w/ Runaway Brother, Lions for Dinner, Fibula)

Modern Baseball / Apartment / Run for Cover – The Camel, June 16 @ 6pm (w/ Tiny Moving Parts, The Hotelier, First Class Liar, Sorority Noise)

Tiny Moving Parts / Vacation Bible School / Kind of Like

The Diamond Center / Monsters / diy – Gallery 5, June 15 @ 6pm (w/ Ancient Sky, Father Sunflower and the Golden Rays, Projections from Lord Candy Dish, Soundscapes by Revolt of the Apes)

 Ancient Sky / Wishing Well / Wharf Cat

Tungs / Bone Dry / Bad Grrrl – Gallery 5, June 16 @ 8pm (w/ Malatese, Basmati, Whatever)

Malatese / Ostrich / Bad Grrrl

Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel / Don't Hold Back / Burger – Strange Matter, June 12 @ 9pm (w/ Flesh Wounds, The Ar-Kaics, Heaven's Gate, Cherry Pits)

Flesh Wounds / Bitter Boy / Merge

Heaven's Gate / Weakness Worms / diy

Tweak Bird / Whorses / diy – Strange Matter, June 14 @ 8pm (w/ Diamond Hairbrush, Brief Lives, New Turks)

New Turks / Waterside / diy

Guttermouth / Secure Horizons / Epitaph – Bandito's, June 16 @ 9pm (w/ Creepazoids)

Creepazoids / Jeckyll and Hyde / diy – Dave Brockie and Cory Smoot Tribute / Canal Club, June 14 @ 5pm (w/ Kepone, Occultist, US Bastards, Kung Fu Dykes, Humungus,Druglord, TheBurial, Pottymouth, Bloody Crackdown)

Kepone / Thaw / Quarterstick

Occultist / Iron Distort / Primitive Ways

Druglord / Let Us Bleed / STB – Strange Matter, June 16 @ 9pm (w/ Pilgrim, Age of Taurus)

Trouble / Bastards Will Pay / Metal Blade – Strange Matter, June 18 @ 9pm (w/ Iron Man, Sinister Haze)

Hail Action / Hail Action! / Hot in the Night – Wonderland, June 13 @ 9pm (w/ Octane Saints, Nuclears)

Even more shows:

Robert Earl Keen – Beacon Theatre, June 12 @ 6pm

An Evening of Comedy with Sara Schaefer and Eliza Skinner – Benefit for Hilliard House / The Broadberry, June 12 @ 7:30pm

The Time Jumpers – Beacon Theatre, June 13 @ 6pm

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline – Jammin' On the James / Wilton House, June 14 @ 6pm

The Articles – Crossroads, June 14 @ 8pm

The Mantras – The Broadberry, June 14 @ 8pm (w/ Spiritual Rez, The Trongone Band, Dreadlock Robot)

Sarah White and the Pearls – Hardywood Brewery, June 15 @ 12 Noon

Classical Incarnations – Balliceaux, June 15 @ 7pm

Sundials – Ask a punk, June 17 @ 7pm (w/ Roswell Kid, Sleeping Bag, Well Spent)

Gamelan Raga Kusuma – Anderson Gallery, June 18 @ 5pm

Ombak – Balliceaux, June 18 @ 9:30pm