Activate!Activate! June 15 – June 22

Just finished up the Audio Meets Visual scavenger hunt and at 7pm I'll deliver two hours packed with tunes from bands performing in RVA, including The Chiggers (pictured), who are releasing their first full-length this week. It's Activate! and it's the concert calendar for your ears!

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Activate! 6-15-11

Just Plain Ant / Spin (Sleaze remix) / BlocSonic – The Camel, June 16 @ 9pm (w/ God IV Bid, Sleaze, Ghost World, DJ Dizz); The Camel, June 21 @ 9pm (w/ Marcus Tenney Trio, Todd Matthews)

Louis Logic / Stocking Stalker / Fake Four – Sprout, June 22 @ 9pm (w/ Ceschi, Cain McCoy, Bizniz, Swordplay)

Swordplay / Text Messages / Concice

The Flail / We're Not Out of the Woods Yet / SmallsLive – The Camel, June 19 @ 9pm (w/ Savage Jazz, Smalltown)

The Chiggers / Roller Derby Girl / diy – CD Release / Plaza Bowl, June 17 @ 8pm

Loversville / Bad Bad Name / diy – Ellwood's Coffee, June 18 @ 6pm; Commercial Taphouse, June 19 @ 8pm

Crazy Rocket Fuel / Crazy Rocket Fuel / diy – Night of Honky Tonk Angels benefit for VA Breast Cancer Foundation / Canal Club, June 18 @ 6pm (w/ Porter Hall Tennessee, Kelley & the Cowboys, Gina Dalmas & the Cow Tipping Playboys, Cesca, The Lonely Teardrops)

The Lonely Teardrops / Corner Date / diy

Gina Dalmas & the Cow Tipping Playboys / Live Fast Love Hard Die Young / diy

The Felice Brothers / Chicken Wire / Team Love – Groovin' In the Gardne / Maymont, June 16 @ 6pm (w/ North Mississippi Allstars Duo)

Blasco / Au Loin / diy – Balliceaux, June 16 @ 10pm (w/ Fuzzy Baby)

Small Sur / Weeds / Aural Slate – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theatre, June 21 @ 7:30pm (w/ South China)

Ophelia / 10 Dollars / Triple Stamp – Sprout, June 16 (w/ Nelly Kate, Broken Fences)

Broken Fences / Wait / Goodstar

Lydia Ooghe / Baby Yay / diy – Sprout, June 17 @ 10pm (w/ Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat, Hurricanes of Love, Omlet, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt)

Hurricanes of Love / Warning From a Demon / diy

Julie Karr / Bend Your Knees / Intervention – Bellytimber, June 19 @ 10pm, w/ Frankzig, Ted, Chris Harrison)

Louisiana Territory / Superstar / diy – The Camel, June 20 @ 8pm (w/ The Half Jeffersons)

Goodwill Falcon / Story of a Commuter / Harding Street Assembly Lab – Sprout, June 19 @ 10pm (w/ Rugby, Climbers)

Title Tracks / Every Little Bit Hurts / Ernest Jenning – Strange Matter, June 19 @ 9pm (w/ White Laces, Antlers)

Dead Rabbits / Strange / diy – Strange Matter, June 21 @ 9pm (w/ The Diamond Center, Sonic Nectar, The Grenadines)

The Grenadines / Reservations / diy

The Spits / Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya / Thriftstore – Strange Matter, June 20 @ 9pm (w/ TV Ghost, Bermuda Triangles, Southside Stranglers)

TV Ghost / Wired Trap / In the Red

Hold Tight! / Ready to Go / Death to False Hope – The Camel, June 21 @ 5pm (w/ American Ruins, Turnover, Rubrics)

Turnover / Solitude / diy

For Serious This Time / Fog bank / Life on a Island – The Camel, June 22 @ 7pm (w/ Giant Peach, The Have Nots, T-Division)

The Have Nots / Anchors / Paper + Plastick

Balaclava / To Those Who Glorify War / Forcefield – Strange Matter, June 18 @ 9pm (w Hog, Holy Dirt, War Graves)

Holy Dirt / Track 3 / Sloth Tapes

The Catalyst / Werewolves of Washington / Perpetual Motion Machine – Strange Matter, June 22 @ 9pm (w/ Gnarwhal, Street Pizza)

Street Pizza / Track 2 / diy – Cellar Door, June 17 @ 8pm (w/ Comfort, Point Blank)

Mecanikill? / Psychoactive Sacrament / diy – Fallout, June 16 @ 8pm (w/ Shadowbunny, Headstone Hallow, 180 Degree Mason, Orgavin)