Activate! July 4 - July 11

Activate!Activate! July 4 – July 11

Prior to the obligatory fireworks, spend 2 hours with Activate! celebrating the freedom to choose from so many rad bands playing live in RVA! Plus, I'll give you the chance to win tickets to see Brick + Mortar (pictured) as well as a copy of their brand new 7-inch!

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Activate! 7/4/12

No BS Brass Band / Brass Scene Kidz / diy – Chili Cookoff & Mural Premier / The Bike Lot, July 7 @ 6pm (w/ The Garbers)

The Atkinsons / I Love Her (Her Minds On other Things) / diy – Capital Ale House, July 5 @ 8pm (w/ Pick Your Switch)

Chamomile and Whiskey / Spring Storms on the Blank Canvas / diy – Capital Ale House, July 6 @ 10pm

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline / I Believe In Cowboys / diy – Poe's Pub, July 6 @ 9pm (w/ The Ultra Kings)

The Highballers / Blistered / diy – Cary Street Cafe, July 6 @ 10pm

Julie Karr / Ben Your Knees / Intervention – Studio 23, July 6 @ 7pm

James Wallace & the Naked Light / Worse Things Have Happened / diy – The Camel, July 8 @ 8pm (w/ Ear Theory, Raintree, The Offset)

Andrew Bird / Skin, Is My / Righteous Babe – Groovin' In the Garden / Lewis Ginter, July 11 (w/ Mavis Staples)

The Habit / Ballad Of / Reel to Reel – Balliceaux, July 5 @ 9pm (w/ The Green Hearts)

The Hill and Wood / ICSWYW / diy – The Camel, July 6 @ 8pm (w/ Black Girls, River Whyless)

Dead Mellotron / Can't See / diy – Strange Matter, July 10 (w/ Coed Pageant, Houdan the Mystic)

Kid is Qual / Conflict Girl / diy – The Camel, July 5 @ 8pm (w/ Trew Music)

Brick & Mortar / Bangs / Anchor & Hope – The Camel, July 9 (w/ Red States, Pastoral, Westhampton Citybillies)

Foxy Shazam / I Like It / IRS – Canal Club, July 5 @ 7:30pm (w/ Stars in Stereo, Late Night Habit, Capulet)

The Vignettes / This is a Song About Rock and Roll / Sunday Fir – The Nile, July 6 @ 10pm (w/ The Garbers, The Blue Rajas)

Tacocat / Original Sk8 or Die / – Strange Matter, July 7 @ 5pm (w/ Slutever, Vaginasaurs, Gunboat)

Slutever / So Prone / Bantic

Labretta Suede & the Motel 6 / Mean Mouthed Mama / Charlie Horse – Wonderland, July 6 @ 10pm (w/ Apocalypse Dudes)

Diarrhea Planet / Warm Ridin' / Infinity Cat – Strange Matter, July 11 @ 9pm (w/ Grass Giraffes, Hot Dolphin)

Max Pain & the Groovies / 1, 2, Yeehaw / diy – Strange Matter, July 9 @ 9pm (w/ The Milkstains, Tropical Punk, Tungs)

The Milkstains / Sand Rash / diy

The Pinkerton Thugs / The Times / Go-Kart – The Camel, July 7 @ 9pm (w/ The Haverchucks, The Scarred, Amateur Thieves, Ratmeat)

The Haverchucks / Jimmy's Song / diy

The Scarred / Spirit of '97 / Jailhouse

Smart Cops / A Quattro Zampe / Sorry State – Strange Matter, July 5 @ 9pm (w/ Infeccion, Unholy Thoughts, Nervous Ticks, The James Badfellows)

The James Badfellows / Tuesday the 13th / diy

Unholy Thoughts / Hell is Other People / diy – Ask a punk, July 9 @ 6pm (w/ Brown Sugar, Dry Spell, Devil's Hand)

Brown Sugar / Birds / Feeble Minds

This is Your Life / High Tide / diy – HA, July 6 @ 7pm (w/ Placeholder, Greek Favourites, Secret Plot to Destroy the Entire Universe, All the American Horses)

The Greek Favourites / Demons Sing / diy

The Fourth Estate / Hate Speech / Spring Street – Ask a punk, July 10 @ 7pm (w/ Tiny Fighting Trees, Furious George, Trust Fall)

Cape of Bats / Night of the Vampyre / diy – Strange Matter, July 5 @ 5pm (w/ Meth Lab, Unsacred, Animal Magazine, Bleach Everything)

Unsacred / Living Blind and Falling Behind / diy

Battlecross / Push Pull Destroy / Metal Blade – Kingdom, July 7 @ 5pm (w/ All Against One, Dark Shores, Unrestricted, Tetryl, The Devil's Roundhouse)

Low On Sanity / Before I drown / diy – Wonderland, July 7 @ 10pm (w/ Fallout of Fear, Proceed the Eye)

More shows:

Mills Family Band – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 6 @ 8pm

Matt Conner & the Enablers – Balliceaux, July 11 @ 10pm

The Acacia Strain – Kingdom, July 13 @ 5pm (w/ The Chariot, Oceano, In Fear and Faith, For All Those Sleeping, This Mountain is Man, Volumes, Hands like Houses)