Activate!Activate! September 8 – September 15

At 7pm, check out the bands who are playing live in RVA this week, from Mutwawa to Lobo Marino (pictured). It's the concert calendar for your ears!

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Activate! 9-8-10

Public Enemy / Power to the People / Def Jam – Hat Factory, Sept. 10 @ 7pm

No BS Brass Band / Lando / diy – The Camel, Sept. 10 @ 9:30pm (w/ Jeb Bishop Trio)

Rattlemouth / Home Fed and Full Grown / diy – Ethiopian New Year / The Nile, Sept. 11 @ 10pm; The Camel, Sept. 15 @ 8pm (w/ Monk's Playground)

Eric Lindell / I Got a Girl / Sparco – Capital Ale House, Sept. 12 @ 9pm

Sirsy / Hostage / Funzalo – Poe's Pub, Sept. 9 @ 9:30pm

Sam Lamont Band / Free / diy – The Camel, Sept. 13 @ 8pm (w/ Mike Koehler, Ben Gilmer)

Lobo Marino / Pope's Nose / diy – Sprout, Sept. 14 @ 10pm (w/ The Low Branches)

Paleo / What is Love / Partisan – The Camel, Sept. 14 @ 7pm (w/ Mele Pele, Hi I'm Bryce, Dave Watkins)

The Cinnamon Band / Call Me a Doctor / Olympico – Ipanema, Sept. 12 @ 10pm

Tortoise / Prepare Your Coffin / Thrill Jockey- Canal Club, Sept. 9 @ 7pm (w/ Marionette, Greg David, Ben Vida)

Marionette / Sound Asleep / Blind Sea

Trees on Fire / Take a Seat / Drake  – The Camel, Sept. 9 @ 7pm (w/ Downbeat Project)

Last Century / Spark / diy – Gallery 5, Sept. 11 @ 8pm (w/ Loren Ipsum, Lewd Baron)

Broken Social Scene / Safety Bricks / Arts & Crafts – The National, Sept. 11 @ 8pm (w/ The Wooden Birds)

Pattern Is Movement / Right Away / Hometapes – Plaza Bowl, Sept. 10 @ 8pm (w/ The Trillions, Parlour Shakedown)

The Trillions / For the Better / diy

Race the Sun / As Wings Develop – Canal Club, Sept. 10 @ 6pm (w/ Patent Pending, The Half Jeffersons, Broadside, Audio Strobe Light, In Courage)

The Visitations / Bony Maurine / Orange Twin – Sprout, Sept. 10 @ 9pm (w/ The Diamond Center)

Mutwawa / Spyra Sphinx / CNP – Strange Matter, Sept. 9 @ 9pm (w/ Dadfag, Caves Caverns, David Marie Garland)

Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds / Johnny / New york Night Train – Bandito's, Sept. 15 @ 8pm

Sons of Hippes / Whatever We Spend / diy – Plaza Bowl, Sept. 11 @ 9pm

Moon Duo / Dead West Pt. II / Woodsist – Strange Matter, Sept. 14 @ 10pm (w/ Palindrome, Tungs, Resin Pyramid)

ZZ Top / My Head's In Mississippi / Warner – The National, Sept. 14 @ 8pm

Pontiak / Algiers By Day / Thrill Jockey – The Triple, Sept. 10 @ 9pm (w/ Hellbear, Ocean)

Iron Chic / In One Ear / Dead Broke Rekerds – The Tighthaus, Sept. 15 @ 7pm (w/ Sundials, Hold Tight!)

Sundials / Hidden Books / diy

Bane / Speechless / Equal Vision – The Warehouse, Sept. 9 @ 7pm (w/ Trapped Under Ice, Alpha & Omega, Pistol Bitch, Cruel Hand)

Thank God / Ice Age / Exotic Fever – Strange Matter, Sept. 12 @ 10pm (w/ The Catalyst, Balaclava)

The Catalyst / Kyle vs. Robocop / Perpetual Motion Machine

Bad Dream / Black Blizzard / diy – Strange Matter, Sept. 13 @ 10pm (w/ Bad Dream, Cough)

Cough / Innsavirus / Forcefield

Rob Swift / Never Ending Snorkel (feat. Wagon Christ) / Om – The Triple, Sept. 11 @ 9pm (w/ Scott Puig, Wrecklezz, Tapeworm)

Other shows (by date)

Jason Jenkins Trio – Olio, Sept. 9 @ 6:30pm

Monte Dutton – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, Sept. 9 @ 8pm

Randall Bramblett – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Sept. 9 @ 8pm

Thrill of a Gunfight – Alley Katz, Sept. 10 @ 5pm (w/ Boris Wheatley, Beneath the Surface, Set Apart)

Mike Lucci Band – Capital Ale House, Sept. 10 @ 5pm

Mike McAdam & Eric Holt – In Your Ear, Sept. 10 @ 7pm

Stockholm Syndrome – The National, Sept. 10 @ 8pm

CPR – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, Sept. 10 @ 8pm

The Taters – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Sept. 10 @ 8pm

The Malfecteurs – Shenanigans, Sept. 10 @ 8:30p

Dave Moody & Blue Whiskey – The Playing Field, Sept. 10 @ 9pm

Special Edition – Bogart's, Sept. 10 @ 9pm

Vega Omega – Poe's Pub, Sept. 10 @ 9:30pm

The Hungdads – City Dogs, Sept. 10 @ 10pm

Amsterdamnit – Cary Street Cafe, Sept. 10 @ 10pm (w/ Gray-V)

Shane Cooley – Capital Ale House, Sept. 10 @ 10pm (w/ Kayce McGehee)

Judy Collins – Recovery fest & BBQ Cookoff / Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Sept. 11 @ 12 Noon (w/ Deliberate, Houston Scott Band, Spiritual Experience, Janet Martin band, Hickory Hill, Homeward Bound)

More than Mistakes – Alley Katz, Sept. 11 @ 5pm (w/ Reign of Odin, Ciorporal Vega, Ayo Nelson, the Acclamation)

Millz – The Camel, Sept. 11 @ 6pm

Badfish, A Tribute to Sublime – Hat Factory, Sept. 11 @ 7pm (w/ Scotty Don’t, Ballyhoo, Tracy Thornton, Unity Crisis)

Michelle Nixon & Drive – St. John's United Church of Christ, Sept. 11 @ 7pm

David Roth – Shady Grove Coffeehouse, Sept. 11 @ 8pm

Richmond Varietease – Canal Club, Sept. 11 @ 8pm

Righteous Outlaws – Grandpa Eddie's BBQ, Sept. 11 @ 8pm

Loversville – Legend, Sept. 11 @ 8pm

Devon Sproule & BJ Kocen – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Sept. 11 @ 8pm

The Recliners – The Playing Field, Sept. 11 @ 9pm

The Silo Effect – The Camel, Sept. 11 @ 9pm

Delta Rae – Capital Ale House, Sept. 11 @ 9pm

The Atkinsons – Cafe Diem, Sept. 11 @ 9:30pm

People's Blues of Richmond – City Dogs, Sept. 11 @ 10pm

High Energy Corporation – Cary Street Cafe, Sept. 11 @ 10pm

Think – Emilio's, Sept. 11 @ 10pm

Bollywood Night w/ DJ Carlito – Cous Cous, Sept. 11 @ 10pm

Greybeard's Afropop Dance Explosion – Balliceaux, Sept. 11 @ 10:30pm

Jazz On the Hill – Brown's Island, Sept. 12 @ 7:30am (w/ Kia El Amin, The Richmond Youth Jazz Guild, Ashby Anderson, Skeeta G., Noah O, Official Freeze, Playdate Live, Cy Taggart Band, Jarrard Anthony, Nickey McMullen, Alex Scott, Jared Jones, Weeping Molly Band, Karla Brown)

Wayne Ruotolo – Bogart's, Sept. 12 @ 7p

Matt Hires – Canal Club, Sept. 12 @ 7pm

Roger Carroll Duo – Emilio's, Sept. 12 @ 8pm

Near Earth Objects – Commercial Taphouse, Sept. 12 @ 9:30pm

Winard Harper – Capital Ale House, Sept. 14 @ 7pm (w/ Roy Assaf, Jovan Alexandre, Bruce Harris, Eric Wheeler)

Photosynthesizers – Balliceaux, Sept. 14 @ 9:30pm

Broadway – Canal Club, Sept. 15 @ 6pm (w/ Harp & lyre, She has a Fashion Vice)

Susan Greenbaum – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Sept. 15 @ 8pm

Zach Deputy – Capital Ale House, Sept. 15 @ 10pm

Battleghost – Strange Matter, Sept. 15 @ 10pm (w/ Centuries In the Sky, Fated Rivalry, The Greater the Risk, So Contagious)