Activate!Activate! May 26 – June 2

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Activate! 5-26-10

Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band / Bottle Rocket / diy – Capital Ale House, May 29 @ 10pm

The New Belgians / Banana Hand Shuffle / diy – Cary Street Cafe, June 2 @ 10pm

DJ Williams Projekt / Cabin Fever / Projekt – Benefit for SPCA / Cary Street Cafe, May 29 @ 10pm (w/ LarJar)

Terry Garland / Stumbling In the Dark / Silvermoon – The Camel, June 2 @ 8pm

Yonder Mountain String Band / Rambler Anthem / Vanguard – Innsbrook Pavilion, June 2 @ 5:30pm (w/ moe)

Lee Harris & Country Sunshine / Never Be the Same / diy – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, May 29 @ 8pm

Wayne "The Train" Hancock / Jump the Blues / Bloodshot – The Playing Field, May 27 @ 7pm (w/ Red Hot Poker Dots)

The Hotdamns / Reached for Your Hand / diy – CD Release / Mojo's, May 28 @ 9pm (w/ Cannery Row, Sorry OK)

Allen Thompson / Forgive Me / diy – Cafe Diem, May 29 @ 9pm (w/ Ben Jordan, The Atkinsons)

Caught In the Rift / Granted / diy – The National, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ People's Blues of Richmond, Barrelhouse, Caulit Anything, Aces in Irons)

Aces in Irons / Strong Enough to Smile / diy

Scott's Garage / Girl / diy – Plaza Bowl, May 29 @ 8pm (w/ Roma, Paul Ivey & the Ruse)

Roma / Gamma Nova / diy

Prabir / Goldrush / The Dream is Over / diy – The Camel, May 30 @ 8pm (w/ Ophelia, Lexy & Kate)

Ophelia (David Shultz & Jonathan Vassar) / One Too Many Nights / Triple Stamp – RVyAy / Gallery 5, May 28 @ 7pm (w/ The No BS Brass Band & Gull, Go Go Funk Yourself)

Skeletonbreath / Louise / Ernest Jenning – The Triple, May 28 @ 10pm (w/ Euphio Machine, Tungs, The Hadron Delay)

Marionette / Lines / Blind Sea – Poe's Pub, May 29 @ 9:30pm (w/ Shane Sayers, Dylan Gilbert)

Hot Lava / Lady Postman / diy – Balliceaux, May 27 @ 10pm; Rock Lotto drawing / Gallery 5, June 2 @ 7pm

Of Montreal / Cato as a Pun / Polyvinyl – The National, June 1 @ 7pm (w/ James Husband, Noot D'Noot)

Paper Fleet / You Don't Have to Rush Off / Ottomen – The Triple, May 29 @ 10pm (w/ Buddhacat, Borrowed Beams of Light)

Borrowed Beams of Light / You Have the Sun / diy

Gray Young / Tilling the Wind / diy – Alley Katz, May 30 @ 7pm (w/ Prisms, Hammer No More the Fingers)

Hammer No More the Fingers / O.R.G.Y. / Churchkey

Rumspringer / Encouragement for the Terminal / Traffic Street – The Camel, June 1 @ 7pm (w/ Bear Witness, Sundials, Alex & the Imaginary Friends, Collapse)

Bear Witness / Goin' to Mojos / diy

Engineer / The Great Mistake / Hex – The Triple, May 30 @ 10pm (w/ Barnaby Jones, KEN Mode, Gaza, The Blue Letter)

KEN Mode / The Romanticist / Profound Lore

Head Molt / Tomb of Shells / CNP – Strange Matter, May 29 (w/ Street Pizza, Caves Caverns, Flesh Control)

Caves Caverns / Part 2 / diy – The Triple, May 31 @ 10pm (w/ A Stick and a Stone, Signals, Floating Colors)

Balaclava/ Retribution-Revelation / Forcefield – Strange Matter, June 2 @ 10pm (w/ Hog)

Hog / A Word is Born / No World Order

Alex Barnett / Try Harder / Nihilist – Strange Matter, May 31 @ 10pm (w/ Psychic Steel)

Amazing Ghost / New York City / diy – Balliceaux, May 28 @ 11pm

Other shows (by date)

D.I.S. – Strange Matter May 26 @ 10pm (w/ Sourvein)

Carbon Leaf – Maymnt Park, May 27 (w/ Sons of Bill )

Trees Above Mandaay – Alley Katz, May 27 @ 5pm (w/ Broadway, Marilyn is Dead, Frail Humanity, No Signal, Battleghost)

Grapefruit Fred – The Camel, May 27 @ 8pm

Lucky Thirteen – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 27 @ 8pm (w/ Marci Geller)

J3 Project – Emilio's, May 27 @ 10pm

High Energy Corporation – City Dogs, May 27 @ 10pm

Stephen Kellog & the Sixers – Friday Cheers / Brown's Island, May 28 (w/ William Walter & Co.)

Chicago – Innsbrook Pavilion, May 28

Amel Larrieux – Fridays at Sunset, May 28 (w/ Dru Hill)

Collateral Damage – Legend, May 28 @ 8pm

Test of Time – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, May 28 @ 8pm

Paul Curreri – CD Release / Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 28 @ 8pm (w/ BJ Kocen)

Oregon Hill Funk Allstars – The Camel, May 28 @ 8pm

Jangling Reinharts – Hometeam Grill, May 28 @ 9:30pm

Moossa – Bogart's, May 28 @ 10pm

Aquafuture – Cary Street Cafe, May 28 @ 10pm

William Walter – Capital Ale House, May 28 @ 10pm

Downbeat Switch – City Dogs, May 28 @ 10pm

Cherry Bomb – RVyAy / Gallery 5, May 29 @ 12 Noon

Joe Enroughty & the Royal Virginians – The Camel, May 29 @ 5pm

Cursed to Black – Alley Katz, May 29 @ 5pm (w/ Iron Tusk, Shewolf, No Signal, Witness the Fire, Avev)

Stich the Lids – Canal Club, May 29 @ 7pm (w/ Postcards, Throwback, Numb Incision)

The Rock and Roll Revue V – Ashland Coffee & Tea, May 29 @ 8pm

Guitar Brothers – Legend, May 29 @ 8pm

The No BS Brass Band – The Camel, May 29 @ 9pm

Zane Lamprey – The National, May 29 @ 9pm

Possessor – Alley Katz, May 29 @ 10pm (w/ Slo Burn, Tetryl, Torturepoint)

Celeste Starchild – Emilio's, May 29 @ 10pm

Grinding Stone – Bogart's, May 29 @ 10pm

Ill Brains – City Dogs, May 29 @ 10pm

Modern Groove Syndicate – Bogart's, May 29 @ 10pm

Dead Man's Jam – Roller Dome, May 30 @ 5pm

Mr. Cheeks – Hat Factory, May 30 @ 9pm

Cannery Row – Cary Street Cafe, May 30 @ 10pm (w/ Kristopher Wright)

Upon a Burning Body – Canal Club, May 31 @ 6pm (w/ Iron Tusk, Maritime Disaster, Awaiting Shipwrecks, Strike the Chord and Burn)

Cook County Bluegrass – Legend, May 31 @ 6:30pm

Puddle of Mudd – The National, May 31 @ 7pm

All Mindz Bonded – The Camel, May 31 @ 8pm

DJ Doddie – Balliceaux, May 31 @ 10pm

The Taters – Ashland Coffee & Tea, June 2 @ 7pm

Sanchez – Hat Factory, June 2 @ 7:30pm (w/ Terry Linen)

The Emotron – The Triple, June 2 @ 10pm