Activate!Activate! July 27 – August 3

It's damn near impossible to fit all of this week's live shows into 2 hours, but I'm gonna try at 7pm on Activate! It's all music from bands who have gigs lined up in Richmond, including a track from Amazing Ghost (pictured)!

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Activate! 7-27-11

B. Steady / Starting Over / diy – Gay RVA Live / The Camel, August 1 @ 7pm (w/ Taylor Johnson)

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline / What's it Gonna Take? / diy – Plaza Bowl, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ Gina Dalmas and Her Cow Tippin' Playboys)

Hot Day at the Zoo / Bid You Goodnight / diy – Capital Ale House, July 30 @ 10pm

Gene & Gayla Mills / Milk and Honey / Heart Pine – CD Release / The Camel, July 29 @ 6pm

Austin Miller / Standin' / diy – Sprout, August 2 @ 10pm

Paleface / Dancin' Days / Ramseur – Capital Ale House, July 29 @ 10pm

Bon Iver / Flume / Jagjaguwar – The National, July 30 @ 8pm (w/ Rosebuds)

Lobo Marino / No Land / diy – Firehouse Theatre, July 28 @ 7pm (w/ Homemade Knives, Alison Self)

Homemade Knives / Saltwater Shoes / Triple Stamp

The Absent Center / Sterile is a Feeling / Ontology – Honey Whytes, July 30 (w/ The Canary Promise)

Planets Around the Sun / Antevorta / L' Animaux Tryst (Field) Recordings – Strange Matter, July 30 @ 9pm (w/ Snowy Owls, The Diamond Center, Fire Bison)

The Diamond Center / Caraway / Someday This Will All make Sense

Grayson Wray / Lavender Skies / diy – The Camel, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ Think, Schak, Kingator)

Black Liquid / Say Somethin' / diy – Face Melt Friday / Strange Matter, July 29 @ 10pm (w/ Black Reign, Chris Haskins, Doeboy da Dude, Official Freeze, OMG, Tatum, Swag Cliq, YFD, Anonymous)

Black Reign / War Gang / diy

Amazing Ghost / Sam Samina / Electric Cowbell – Balliceaux, July 29 @ 10pm (w/ Snow Panda, The Reinhold)

Andy the Doorbum / Wallet / diy – The Hospital, July 29 @ 7pm (w/ The Emotron, Folk the System, The Mothball Fleet)

Double Rainbow / I Talk English / diy – Strange Matter, July 31 @ 9pm (w/ Cher Horowitz, Robert Eugene Stubbs, Clayton England)

Cher Horowitz / Surfing the Crimson Wave / diy

Julie Karr / Suwanne / Intervention – Sprout, July 28 @ 10pm (w/ Sportsbar, Rugby, Great Dads)

Great Dads / Ladies Knight / diy

Sportsbar / Flowerz / Sweet Dreams

Bermuda Triangles / Bloo / CNP – Sprout, August 2 @ 10pm (w/ Brain F, Haverchucks)

Brain F / So Dim / Grave Mistake

Lock Out! Tag Out! / Whose Streets / diy – The Hospital, July 28 @ 7pm (w/ Light Years, Louder than Bombs, Basement Dweller)

Louder than Bombs / The Great Depression / diy

Grown Ups / Wigwam / Doghouse – The Hospital, July 30 @ 7pm (w/ Quiet the Trees, Jake Cunningham)

In Circles / Vanishing Point / Evil Weevil – The Hospital, August 1 @ 7pm (w/ Postcards, The Disappeared)

The Disappeared / Origami Hearts / I Hate Punk Rock

Octane Saints / Grind / Snake Oil – The Republic, July 30 @ 9pm (w/ Apocalypse Dudes, a Tribute to Turbonegro)

Mirrors and Wires / Pharm of Love / Headcount – Sprout, July 30 @ 10pm (w/ Rational Animals, Southside Stranglers)

Rational Animals / How to Despise / Feral Kid

Ramming Speed / Volture's Prey / TDB – Strange Matter, August 3 @ 9pm (w/ Humungus, Gnawed, (A) Truth, Barnburner)

Barnburner / Keg Stand and Deliver / Metal Blade

Churches Burn / Bastard Sons of Cardamone and Keller / diy – Strange Matter, July 28 @ 9pm (w/ Pledge of Cain, Cough)

Heathens / Victory / Last Anthem – Strange Matter, August 2 @ 9pm (w/ Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Transient, Grown Ass Men)

The Suicide Magnets / Necklace for Trees / diy – Sprout, July 29 @ 10pm (w/ Dick Neff, Head Molt, Midzhur, Flesh Control)