Activate!

Activate! December 15 – December 22

Mike Rutz

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)

No BS! Brass Band / Infamous / Audiotree Live – Annual Canned Food Drive / The Broadberry, Dec. 16 @ 8pm (w/ Luray)

Bio Ritmo / Consejitos / Que Siga La Musica – Hardywood, Dec. 18 @ 3pm (w/ Rattan DJ)

Rattlemouth / Caballo Viejo / 5 – Silent Music Revival / Gallery 5, Dec. 18 @ 8pm (Film: The Night Before Christmas (1913))

Antero / Log On the Fire / Victims of Profit – The Broadberry, Dec. 22 @ 8pm (w/ King Easy, Burning Fire)

Kings / Stimulate / Kings – The Camel, Dec. 16 @ 8pm (w/ Revelator Hill, Andrew Rohlk Trio)

Twain / Are We in Heaven? / Life Labors In the Choir – Crossroads, Dec. 22 @ 8pm (w/ Kia Cavallaro)

Carbon Leaf / Ragtime Carnival / Constellation – The National, Dec. 17 @ 7pm (w/ Will Overman Band)

Pete Curry / Shoreline (I’ll Be Waiting) / Doin Nothin’ – The Camel, Dec. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Hill Walkers, Sammi Lanzetta, Doctor Collins)
Hill Walkers / Until She Came Around / Dark Skies
Doctor Collins / Be Still and Know That Your God / The Chemistry Clash

Phantogram / As Far As I Can See / Eyelid Movies – The National, Dec. 18 @ 6:30pm (w/ Foreign Air)

Dorthia Cottrell / Vessel / Dorthia Cottrell – Slug & Lettuce Closing Reception / Gallery 5, Dec. 21 @ 6pm (w/ Tess Fisher of Petrichor)

Vexine / El Rancho Motel / Vexine – Canal Club, Dec. 17 @ 8pm (w/ Hoax Hunters, J & W Love Redemption, Low Birds)
Hoax Hunters / Poinsonous Love / Clickbait

Wester Green / Wayward / See the Forest – The Camel, Dec. 19 @ 7:30pm (w/ Eric Slick, Fort Defiance)
Eric Slick / No / single

Clair Morgan / Amelia Graveheart / New Lions and The Not-Good Night – Hardywood, Dec. 16 @ 6pm (w/ Young Rapids, Hot Reader)
Young Rapids / What R U Saying / Pretty Ugly

Adam Schatz (of Landlady) / What I Am Capable Of (Zombie’s Lament) / single – Hardywood, Dec. 17 @ 6pm (w/ Bishops, Lightfields, Samantha Pearl)
Bishops / Buried Underneath / Dream Easy

Murphy’s Kids / Dusty Trail / The Anthemic Pandemic – Happy Skalidays benefit / The Broadberry, Dec. 17 @ 8pm (w/ Space Koi, Imaginary Sons, Jackmove)
Imaginary Sons / Taste the Waste / single

Calyx / Cryin’ Elvis / Make a Freak Feel Clean – Ask a punk, Dec. 16 @ 7pm (w/ Bad Magic, Warrington)

Zack Mexico / Meric Clanson / Run Out Of Money and Die – Ask a punk, Dec. 16 @ 8pm (w/ Urban Sloth, Cupid McCoy, Grass Panther)
Grass Panther / Trade Blood / Vignette

With Sympathy / Cradled at Gundpoint / With Sympathy – Locals Only #21 / Strange Matter, Dec. 20 @ 8pm (w/ ASM, Majorel, Och, Vulcanite)

Crucial Rip / Greens / Bong Rip Evisceration – Locals Only #22 / Strange Matter, Dec. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Abomination in Conflict with Mechanical Death, Mangalitsa, High Canyon, Paint Store)
Mangalitsa / Cig Lips / demo

Apalling / Apalling / demo 2016 – Locals Only #23 / Strange Matter, Dec. 22 @ 8pm (w/ Cruelsifix, Desert Altar, Swathe, Voarm)

Ozark / Kestrels / Stereolilth – Album Release / The Camel, Dec. 20 (w/ Bstfrnd, Choice Doctors, Lopside)

Even more shows (by date):

In Dying Arms – Canal Club, Dec. 16 @ 5pm (w/ Vilis, Hollow/Bodies, RVNT, Alukah, Abyssea)

Hotel X – Crossroads, Dec. 16 @ 8pm

Punks for Presents Night 3 – Strange Matter, Dec. 16 @ 8pm (w/ Sick Toys, Imaginary Boys, Dear Santa)

The Floorboards – Cary Street Café, Dec. 16 @ 10pm

Tin Can Fish Band – Crossroads, Dec. 17 @ 8pm

Hamaganza – The Camel, Dec. 17 @ 8:30pm

Redlight Reggae – Strange Matter, Dec. 17 @ 10pm (w/ Skip n Gold, Okay Dave)

Neon City – 25 Watt, Dec. 17 @ 10pm (w/ DJs Chas Paris, Annadr0id, Nekrotique, Rivetta)

Songwriter Showcase – The Camel, Dec. 18 @ 4pm (w/ Becca Zuckerman, Brandon Eades, Laura Christine, Erika Blatnik, Tony Farris)

Phereedom Sol – Canal Club, Dec. 18 @ 5pm (w/ Tasha Thomas, Frederick Eberhardt, Zhé Aqueen, Chris Matthews, Taesean Blanding, Michelle Dodd)

MovieClub presents “Scrooged” – Strange Matter, Dec. 18 @ 7pm

The Atkinsons Trio – Buddy’s, Dec. 18 @ 7pm

Big Wide Grin – The Tin Pan, Dec. 18 @ 7pm

Jazz Is Phish – The broadberry, Dec. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Buttertub)

Punks for Presents – Bandito’s, Dec. 18 @ 9pm

Julius Pittman & The Revival – The Tin Pan, Dec. 20 @ 7pm

Lil Bandit & Zayb – Strange Matter, Dec. 21 @ 5pm (w/ Blvck Royalty, Cra$h & G $plur, OE3)

The Danktet – VMFA, Dec. 22 @ 6pm

Jubilant Bridge Christmas Show – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Dec. 22 @ 8pm

Boy Named Banjo – The Camel, Dec. 22 @ 8pm

Randy Johnson 3 – Cary Street Cafe, Dec. 22 @ 10pm