Activate!Activate! July 23 – July 30

How do you follow up a weekend of incredible live music? With another week of incredible live music! Hear your options tonight at 7pm, including tracks from the Alan Parker Group who will be part of the Mingus Awareness Project, Brainworms who are playing another rare show, and Hot Dolphin (pictured) who will play at a new venue in Shockoe Bottom. Plus, I'll give away tickets to see Against Me! in Charlottesville, Elephant 6 band Circulatory System and New Orleans bounce artist Katey Red, both at Strange Matter!

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ACTIVATE! 7-23-14

Sarah White / Spoken Word / Jagjaguwar – Crossroads, July 27 @ 5pm

Michaela Anne / Anymore / diy – Twangtown Thursdays / Balliceaux, July 24 @ 9:30pm

Greg Trooper / Green Eyed Girl / Sugarhill – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 24 @ 8pm

Scott Miller / Wildcat Whistle / FAY – Ashland Coffee & Tea, July 25 @ 8pm

Alan Parker Group / Rabbit Drive / 32 Bar – Mingus Awareness Project benefit for ALS / The Camel, July 27 @ 7pm (w/ Jones/D’earth/Kuhl/Pharr, Toby Whitaker Ensemble, Cameron Ralston)

DJ Harrison / Chinatown Bus / diy – Balliceaux, July 29 @ 9:30pm

Boxwave / Brookbeat / diy – The Camel, July 27 @ 2pm

Former Champions / Alone / diy – The Camel, July 26 @ 8pm (w/ Blaqtronic)

Circulatory System / If You Think About It Now / Cloud – Strange Matter, July 26 @ 5pm (w/ The Diamond Center, Father Sunflower & the Golden Rays)

Double Rainbow / Hands / diy – 13ainbridge Collective, July 29 @ 8pm (w/ Southern Femisphere, Dos Cabezas)

Dorthia Cottrell / Loviatar / diy – Strange Matter, July 27 @ 9pm (w/ Nate Hall, Brandon Marcey)

The Diamond Center / Bones / diy – Hardywood, July 26 @ 5pm (w/ White Laces, Welcome Hips)

White Laces / Impossible Windows / Speakertree

I am the Avalanche / The Shape I'm In / I Surrender – The Camel, July 29 @ 7pm (w/ Somos, Rustbelt Lights, We Call this Courage)

Rustbelt Lights / How to Live Without / Adeline

Against Me! / True Trans Soul Rebel / Xtra Mile – The Southern in Charlottesville, July 25 @ 8pm (w/ Jenny Owen Youngs, Creepoid)

Supersuckers / Gold Top / Sub Pop – Bandito's, July 28 @ 9pm (w/ Mudd Helmet, Blackout Shift)

Mudd Helmet / 12 Oz. (Closer to God) / diy

All Blood / A Western Man / diy – Gallery 5, July 29 @ 7pm (w/ Cherry Pits, Heavy Midgets)

Katey Red / Melpomene Block Party / Take Fo – Strange Matter, July 29 @ 9pm (w/ DJ Tomlin, DJ David Miller, Ms. Proper)

Fire Retarded / Meat Stairs / Big Neck – Strange Matter, July 26 @ 9pm (w/ Naked Baby, Diamond Hairbrush, Animal Planet)

Diamond Hairbrush / In My Limousine Trunk / diy – 25 Watt, July 27 @ 9pm (w/ Hot Dolphin, Bitchmouth, The You Go Girls)

Hot Dolphin / Go Team USA / diy

Bitchmouth / Fox / diy

NONA / Walking / Mandible – Strange Matter, July 24 @ 9pm (w/ Hold Tight!, Lilac Daze, Teen Death)

Hold Tight! / Blizzard of '96 / Animal Style

Lilac Daze / Fountain and Medicine / Black Numbers

Brainworms / Take Your Medicine / Rorschach – Ask a punk, July 26 @ 8pm (w/ Ordinary Lives, Sea of Storms, Heavy Midgets)

Party Plates / Kidnapping Quatro / diy – Ask a punk, July 26 (w/ Unholy Thoughts, Cretins, Wetbrain)

Imaginary Sons / Talkie Talkie / diy – The Camel, July 24 2 7pm (w/ The Mad Anthonys)

Sight Obscene / Rule #666 / diy – Canal Club, July 26 @ 7pm (w/ Dethorned, Nihilistic, Spiral Fracture, Awakened the Dormancy)

Oathbreaker / No Rest for the Weary / Deathwish Inc. – Strange Matter, July 28 @ 9pm (w/ Cult Leader, Devil's Hand, Prisoner)

Cult Leader / Flightless Birds / Deathwish, Inc.

Young and In the Way / Leaving Nothing But The Absence Of Everything / A389 – Strange Matter, July 25 @ 9pm (w/ Unsacred, Salvaticus, Crater)

Unsacred / Living Blind and Falling Behind / diy

DELTAnine / Full Dragon / diy – The Camel, July 30 @ 7pm (w/ Galaxy Dynamite)

Even more shows:

Emmylou Harris – Maymont Park, July 24 @ 6pm

Imaginary Sons – The Camel, July 24 @ 7pm (w/ The Mad Anthonys)

Atiba Taylor and Blue Nesta – Capital Ale House, July 25

Rosco Bandana – Hippodrome, July 25 @ 8pm

Happy Lucky Combo – Crossroads, July 25 @ 8pm

Watson – Canal Club, July 25 @ 8pm (w/ DCAN)

The Fritz – The Camel, July 25 @ 9pm (w/ The Northerners)

The Articles – Rare Olde Times, July 27 2 5pm (w/ The Thin Men)

The Lee Boys- The Broadberry, July 30 @ 8pm (w/ DJ Williams Projekt)

Bodyface – Strange Matter, July 30 @ 9pm (w/ Fight Cloud, Headless Mantis)