Activate!

Activate! Nov. 17 – Nov. 24

Mike Rutz

Band / Song Title / Album – Venue, Date, Time (Lineup)

Aztec Sun / Parera / Set You Free – The Camel, Nov. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Dance Candy, Kings)

Daniel Bachman / Farther Along / Daniel Bachman – Sediment, Nov. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Liza Kate, Tavishi, Grey Wulf)
Liza Kate / She’s a Machine / Don’t Let the Dogs

Steep Canyon Rangers / Mourning Dove / Deep In the Shade – Modlin Center, Nov. 18 @ 7pm

Malhombre / Rosalie / Ghost Songs – Album Release / Plan 9, Nov. 19 @ 4pm; Balliceaux, Nov. 20 @ 8:30pm

Cracker / Maggie / Greenland – The Broadberry, Nov. 19 @ 8pm

Midnight Snack / Nowhere to Be / The Times – The Camel, Nov. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Don’t Chase Felix, Prabir)

Big Mama Shakes / Freight / As She Does – Rock to End Alzheimers / The Broadberry, Nov. 18 @ 7:30pm (w/ 808, Brighter the Moon, Venus Guytrap)

Mikrowaves / Rolling On / Snacks – The Camel, Nov. 19 (w/ Litz, Moogatu); Cary Street Cafe, Nov. 23 @ 10pm

Wilder Maker / Summer Drifts / Everyday Crimes Against Objects Of Desire, Vol. III – Hardywood, Nov. 19 @ 5pm (w/ California Death, Indoor/Indoor)
Indoor/Indoor / Wait It Out / Suburban Lakes

The Lawsuits / Onion / Cool Cool Cool – Hardywood, Nov. 18 @ 6pm (w/ Andrew Carter)

Naked and Famous / Rolling Waves / In Rolling Waves – The National, Nov. 18 @ 7pm (w/ xylo, The Chain Gang of 1974)

Antiphons / Human Bruise / Groan – Gallery 5, Nov. 18 @ 7pm (w/ Get In the Car, Various Eggs, Julie Storey)
Get In the Car / Inside the Perisphere / Get In the Car

The Good Life / Everybody / Everybody’s Coming Down – Strange Matter, Nov. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Field Mouse, Jake Bellows)
Field Mouse / The Mirror / Episodic

Big Bliss / Constants / single – Gallery 5, Nov. 20 @ 7pm (w/ California Death, Young Scum)
Young Scum / Out Of State / Zona

Bears / Grin / I’ll Be Friends – The Camel, Nov. 20 @ 8pm (w/ Tuck, Grem Smiley, The Hoodoos)

Electric Citizen / Devils in Passing Time / Higher Time – Strange Matter, Nov. 21 @ 8pm (w/ Book of Wyrms, Red Feather, Horisont)
Horisont / Writing on the Wall / Time Warriors

Bent Life / Lock / Never Asked For Heaven – Strange Matter, Nov. 19 @ 5pm (w/ Lost Souls, Trails of Lies, Red Vision)

Occultist / Path of the Damned / Death Sigils – Bandito’s, Nov. 20 @ 9pm (w/ Murdersome, Deacon, Noctomb)
Noctomb / Kraken / Obulus for Charon
Murdersome / Democide / Demo 2016

Valdrin / Serpent Willow / Beyond The ForestĀ  – McCormack’s, Nov. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Och, Cruelsifix)

Ulcerate / Abrogation / Shrines of Paralysis – Strange Matter, Nov. 19 @ 8pm (w/ Zhrine, Phobocosm)

Zhrine / World / Unortheta

Alluvion / Heel of the Boot / Reverberations – Wonderland, Nov. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Exknives, Sundrainer)

Van Hagar / All the Little Rascals are Dead / Violent Opposition split – Benefit for Virginia Anti-Violence Project / Ask a punk, Nov. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Yaya, Dazeases, This Land is Now Dead)

John Luter / Don’t Be Shy / single – Strange Matter, Nov. 23 @ 8pm (w/ Onomatopoeia, The Talkies, D’Janglir)

Even more shows (by date):

Our Last Night – Canal Club, Nov. 18 @ 5pm (w/ Hands Like Houses, The Color Morale, Out Came The Wolves, Until the Wind Shifts)

The Black Jacket Symphony presents “Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of The Moon” – Beacon Theatre, Nov. 18 @ 6:30pm

Maia Sharp – The Tin Pan, Nov. 18 @ 7pm (w/ Catie Curtis)

Black Liquid presents Face Melt Friday – Strange Matter, Nov. 18 @ 7pm

Hotel X – Crossroads, Nov. 18 @ 8pm

My Son the Doctor – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Nov. 18 @ 8pm

Voltage – 25 Watt, Nov. 18 @ 8pm (w/ Elliott Ness, Eli Cash, Tatntrum, Fashion Zoo, Mode 7, Lyfesavr, Inyoka, Makak)

Erin & The Wildfire – Cary Street Cafe, Nov. 18 @ 10pm (w/ Sid Kingsley)

Perform for Hunger benefit for The Giving Heart – The Camel, Nov. 19 @ 2pm

Carter Lou & the Project – Canal Club, Nov. 19 @ 5pm (w/ Hyetension, Deep Creek, Jackson’s Flank)

Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party – The National, Nov. 19 @ 7pm (w/ DJs Will Eastman & Ozker, visuals by Kylos)

Tom Paxton – The Tin Pan, Nov. 19 @ 7pm

Tin Can Fish Band – Crossroads, Nov. 19 @ 8pm

Weeping Molly – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Nov. 19 @ 8pm

The Wilfs – Emilio’s, Nov. 19 @ 9pm

J. Smith Trio – Hardywood, Nov. 20 @ 3pm

Break It Down Panel Discussion with Questlove – VMFA, Nov. 20 @ 3:30pm

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Songs and Remarks on Friends and Relations – Firehouse, Nov. 20 @ 7:30pm

Jake Shimabukuro – The Tin Pan, Nov. 21 @ 7pm

Secretly Y’all: Headlines – Gallery 5, Nov. 21 @ 7pm

Julius Pittman & The Revival – The Tin Pan, Nov. 22 @ 6pm

A$AP Ferg – The National, Nov. 22 @ 7pm (w/ Playboi Carti, Rob $tone)

Joe Bonamassa – Landmark Theater, Nov. 23

Maxwell – Richmond Coliseum, Nov. 23 (w/ Mary J. Blige, Ro James)

Samson Trinh Trio – Hardywood, Nov. 23 @ 6pm

Tyler Reese Band – The Tin Pan, Nov. 23 @ 7pm

Jackass Flats – The Camel, Nov. 23 @ 8pm (w/ The Leftovers)

Fear of Music – The Broadberry, Nov. 23 @ 8pm

The Slank – Cary Street Cafe, Nov. 24 @ 10pm (w/ Tarrant)