Activate!Activate! October 16 – October 23

Tonight I wish I had three hours instead of two, because this week in Richmond is jam-packed with killer shows. At 7pm, I'll preview the best of best, including new songs from Lobo Marino, JJ Burton, and New Turks, and a track by Sturgeon City (pictured) who are playing a benefit for the James River Outdoor Coalition. Plus, I have tickets to give away to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, SOJA, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, all happening in Charlottesville!

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Activate! 10-16-13

Marisa Anderson / Drop Down / Mississippi – Steady Sounds, Oct. 19 @ 4pm

Rusty Belle / The Devil in Your Smile / diy  – The Camel, Oct. 20 @ 9pm (w/ The Good Birds)

Sturgeon City / Stories / diy – Benefit for James River Outdoor Coalition / The Camel, Oct. 19 @ 8pm (w/ Jackass Flats)

Hackensaw Boys / Cannonball / Nettwerk – Capital Ale House, Oct. 17 @ 8pm

Brushfire Stankgrass / Higher Bliss / diy – The Camel, Oct. 18 @ 9pm (w/ The Shack Band)

Big Daddy Love / Good Morning Sunshine / Little King – The Camel, Oct. 17 @ 8pm

Anousheh / Same  / Triple Stamp – Globehopper, Oct. 17 @ 7pm (w/ Lucy Dracus, The Oarsman)

The Oarsman / Dreamcatcher / Tandem Shop

Lobo Marino / Crooked Road (Floyd, VA) / diy – Album Release / Harvest Folk Fest – Benefit for Rear Gallery, Oct. 19 @ 12 Noon (w/ Dorthia, Featherword, Cole Sullivan, Goldfish, Haints in the Holler, Meadow Song, Planet Awesome, Rivers Crude, Swamp Trees)

William Tyler / Cadillac Desert / Merge – Ipanema, Oct. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Dave Watkins)

Wyoming Exploded / You're Gonna Go Right / diy – Bogart's, Oct. 18 @ 9pm (w/ Solace Sovay, Goldtooth)

Elekibass / I Know Some Kind of Rain Will Fall / K – Steady Sounds, Oct. 17 @ 5pm (w/ Ashley Erikkson); Black Iris, Oct. 17 @ 8pm (w/ Ashley Erikkson)

Fitz & the Tantrums / Don't Gotta Work It Out / Dangerbird – The National, Oct. 20 @ 6:30pm (w/ Capital Cities, Beat Club)

Capital Cities / Safe and Sound / Capitol

The Neighborhood / Sweater Weather / Columbia – The National, Oct. 19 @ 7pm (w/ Lovelife, Ghost Loft)

JJ Burton / Ohhh Bay!! (Ohhh Baby) / Label Who – The Listening Room / Firehouse Theater, Oct. 22 @ 7:30pm (w/ Josh Small, Bonnie Staley)

Yip Deceiver / Obnoxia / New West – Strange Matter, Oct. 22 @ 9pm (w/ Wild Moccasins, Black Girls)

Wild Moccasins / Skin Collision Past / New West

Peach Kelli Pop / Panchito Blues / Burger – Bandito's, Oct. 20 @ 9pm (w/ The Milkstains, Tyrannosaurus Awesome)

Big Waves of Pretty / Monica / Already Dead – Globehopper, Oct. 20 @ 6pm (w/ Kevin Greenspon, Counterspark, Miranda)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Their Helicopters Sing / Constellation – Jefferson Theater, Oct. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Marisa Anderson)

Hoax Hunters / Hoax Hunters / diy – Emilio's, Oct. 20 @ 9:30pm (w/ 6 Track Amateur)

Organs / Main Line Woman / Killer Diller – The Well, Oct. 17 @ 10:30pm (w/ Naked Baby)

Lisa Doll & the Rock'n Roll Romance – The Well, Oct. 22 @ 10pm (w/ Hot Dolphin)

The Gospel / Clock Hands Radio / diy – Wonderland, Oct. 18 @ 9pm (w/ The Blackout Shift, Lost In Society)

Lost In Society / Scared / Altercation

Negative Approach / Evacuate / Touch and Go – Strange Matter, Oct. 19 @ 8pm (w/ The Casualties, Primitive Man, Barge, Omega Boys)

Primitive Man / Rags / Relapse

St. Vitus / Let Them Fall / Season of Mist – Strange Matter, Oct. 21 @ 6pm (w/ Zoroaster, Cough, The Hookers, Dry Spell)

Zoroaster / Black Hole / E1

Ex-Breathers / Bliss / diy – Strange Matter, Oct. 20 @ 4pm (w/ Messiahlator, Brief Lives, Springtime)

Messiahlator / Canada Dry / diy

Cremains / The Gods Want blood / diy – Strange Matter, Oct. 18 @ 5pm (w/ Intheshit, Ratmeat)

Bbigpigg / How Weird is That Girl? / Not Unlike – Gallery 5, Oct. 18 @ 7pm (w/ Whatever, New Turks, Nicoffiene)

New Turks / Bonestorm / diy

Nagual / Honey River Lacquer / Ergot – Steady Sounds, Oct. 21 @ 5pm

Even more shows:

Steve Fisher – Gallery 5, Oct. 17 @ 6:30pm (w/ Blue Line Highway)

Willy Porter – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Oct. 17 @ 8pm

Roni Size – The National, Oct. 17 @ 8pm (w/ Rusko, Tonn Piper, Dynamite MC)

Cry Baby – Strange Matter, Oct. 17 @ 9pm (w/ Toxic Moxie, Banshee Beat, Bandrew)

The Chariot – Kingdom, Oct. 18 @ 5pm (w/ Glass Cloud, Birds In Row, To The Wind, Rebuker, Our Voice The Vessel, Seraph)

The Atkinsons – Hardywood, Oct. 19 @ 4pm (w/ Long Arms)

Parentheses  – Sounds of RVA showcase / Bogart's, Oct. 19 @ 9pm (w/ Superlative, Inland Ocean)

Loversville – Commercial Taphouse, Oct. 20

Autonomy – Ask a punk, Oct. 20 @ 7pm (w/ Doom Town, ARF)

Classical Revolution RVA – Silent Music Revival / Gallery 5, Oct. 20 @ 8pm (Film: The Unknown)

Phutureprimitive – Strange Matter, Oct. 20 @ 9pm (w/ M-Pyre, Unlimited Gravity)

Alice Cooper – The National, Oct. 22 @ 6:30pm

Ultra Bide – Strange Matter, Oct. 23 @ 9pm