Activate!Activate! August 15 – August 22

Whether you dig bluegrass or metal (or both), there's definitely a band for you to see live in Richmond this week. I have songs from most of them tonight at 7pm, including Strike Anywhere (pictured) who are making an appearance at this Saturday's GWAR-B-Q!

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Activate! 8/15/12

Matisyahu / Refuge / JDub – Innsbrook Pavilion, Aug. 21 @ 6pm (w/ Dirty Heads, Moon Taxi)

The Black Lillies / Two Hearts Down / North Knox – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 16 @ 8pm

Candye Kane / When I Put the Blues on You / Ruf – The Camel, Aug. 16

Neil Hamburger / At Least I Was Paid / Drag City – Gallery 5, Aug. 18 @ 7pm & 10pm (w/ Todd Barry, Brenden Walsh)

The Mason Brothers / Ghost At the Wheel / diy – The Camel, Aug. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade, The Animal Beat)

Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade / Central Tendencies / diy

The Animal Beat / The Badge On Your Sleeve / diy

Joe Buck Jr. / Beautiful People / diy – Poe's Pub, Aug. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Luz del Sol)

White Laces / Invocation / Speakertree  – Record Release / Balliceaux, Aug. 17 @ 10pm (w/ Ohbliv); Steady Sounds, Aug. 18 @ 4pm (w/ Wolf/Goat)

Dead Fame / Turning  / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 19 @ 4pm (w/ Screen Vinyl Image, Airiel)

Screen Vinyl Image / Fever / Custom Made

Deep Time / Clouds / Hardly Art – Strange Matter, Aug. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Hot Dolphin, The Garbers, Canary Oh Canary)

Nervous Ticks / Won't Be Low / diy – Bandito's, Aug. 19 @ 9pm (w/ The Milkstains, Slugz)

The Milkstains / Sand Rash / diy

Rev. D-Ray & the Shockers / El Camino / diy – Wonderland, Aug. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Adam Realman, Kryssy Kocktail, Clownvis Presley)

Tallhart / Fever (Sister of Mine) / Equal Vision – The Camel, Aug. 21  @ 7pm (w/ The Manifestivus, Brother William, Isaac and Friends)

Tiny Fighting Trees / The Girl Who Used to Sing in My Indie Band / diy – The Camel, Aug. 20 @ 5pm (w/ Wolfbite, Monacan Hill, Furious George)

Run Forever / Young Pioneers / Solidarity – Strange Matter, Aug. 16 @ 5pm (w/ Adventures, Like Bats, Folk the System, Close Talker)

Like Bats / My Favorite Kind of Cigarette / Traffic Street

Joyce Manor / Call Out / diy – The Camel, Aug. 18 @ 7pm (w/ max Levine Ensemble, Hold Tight!, Springtime)

Max Levine Ensemble / Small Talk / Asian Man

Hold Tight! / ready to Go / Death to False Hope

Sad Boys / Bug Bites / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 22 @ 5pm (w/ Putrida, Pissheads)

Ratface / The Gates / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Ratmeat, Pissheads, Orgasm)

Ashes Forever / Farewell Mistake / diy – HA, Aug. 19 @ 7pm (w/ Dial Up, Meth Lab)

Cognitive Dissonance / Means to Extinction / Halo of Flies – Strange Matter, Aug. 20 @ 5pm (w/ Degeneracy, Host, Unsacred)

Host / Keep Your Opinions To Yourself / diy

The Catalyst / Panic Don't Panic / Perpetual Motion Machine – Strange Matter, Aug. 21 @ 9pm (w/ Gnarwhal, Suppression)

Meat Cleaver / Weed Coma / diy – Pre-GWAR-B-Q Bash / Strange Matter, Aug. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Savage Attack, Bloody Crackdown, Gritter, Trenchgrinder, Dethrace, Stuck Backward, Spiral Fracture)
 
Trenchgrinder / The Hunt / diy

GWAR / Krosstika / DRT – GWAR-B-Q / Hadad's lake, Aug. 18 @ 11am (w/ Black Naked Wing, The Burial Main, Mutwawa, Antietam 1862, Highness, Lionize, Lost Tribe, Ghoul, Occultist, Strike Anywhere, Murderess, The Casualties, Valient Thorr)

Strike Anywhere / Failed State / Bridge Nine

The Casualties / Authority Is Dead /

Ghoul / Destructor / Tankcrimes

Buried at Birth / Kill Yourself / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 16 @ 9pm (w/ Radiation)

Lightning Bolt / SOS / Load – Gallery 5, Aug. 22 @ 7pm (w/ Buck Gooter, Dumb Waiter, Navi)