Activate!Activate! October 30 – November 6

Big ups to all of you who supported WRIR during our latest Fund Drive! If you haven't yet, go ahead and click on "Donate" on our front page. Tonight at 7pm, I'll keep the chatting to a minimum as I play music from bands playing live in RVA this week. I'll be sure to include a track from Lightfields (pictured) who are playing a Halloween party, plus I'll give away tickets to Dailey & Vincent and Circle Takes the Square!

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Activate! 10-30-13

Bumper Jacksons / Hot Tamales / Amphibitone – UkeFest of Virginia / Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, Nov. 1 & 2 (w/ Aloha Boys, Jim and Liz Beloff, Josh Kekoa Cho Trio, Ken Middleton, Sweet Fern)

Dailey & Vincent / Steel Drivin' Man / Rounder – Hippodrome, Nov. 2

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong / French Cafe / diy – The Camel, Nov. 2 @ 9pm (w/ Jahman Brahman)

Zac Hryciak & the Jungle Beat / Howl A-Woo A-Woo / diy – Screens & Suds Exhibition / Gallery 5, Nov. 1 @ 6pm (w/ Glass Twin, Hoax Hunters, The Late Virginia Summers, RVA Dance Collective)

The Late Virginia Summers / NY104 headed West / Harding Street Assembly Lab

SS Web / North / diy – Wonderland, Nov. 6 @ 9pm

Lucero / Women & Work / ATO – The National Nov. 6 @ 7pm (w/ Titus Andronicus)

Dr. Dog / Unbearable Why / Anti – The National, Nov. 4 @ 7pm (w/ Benny Yurco & The Revealers, Floating Action)

Gungor / This is Not the End / diy – Canal Club, Nov. 6 @ 7pm (w/ KS Rhodes, Drew Daniels)

Nature Boy Explorer / Buena Vista Country Jesus / diy – Helen's, Nov. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Transitones, School Dance)

Lightfields / Something Else / diy – Bogarts, Nov. 1 @ 8:30pm (w/ The Absent Center, Those Manic Seas)

zZz / Running With the Beast / Anti – Strange Matter, Nov. 4 @ 9pm (w/ Gunboat, Flossed in Paradise)

Built to Spill / Strange / Warner – Canal Club, Oct. 31 @ 7pm (w/ Slam Dunk, Genders, The Warm Hair)

Slam Dunk / Feral Child / diy

Big D & the Kids Table / It's Raining Zombies on Wall Street / SideOneDummy – Kingdom, Nov. 3 @ 6pm (w/ Red City Radio, Survay Says, Murphys Kids, Kill Lincoln)

Fear Nuttin' Band / Rebel / BoomBlaze – Canal Club, Nov. 4 @ 7:30pm (w/ The Upstream, Dreadlock Robot)

Lionize / Superczar / diy – Kingdom, Nov. 6 @ 7pm (w/ Kid is Qual)

Kid is Qual / Knights of Ole / diy

Tera Melos / When Worms Learn to Fly / Sargent House – Strange Matter, Nov. 3 @ 5pm (w/ Zorch, Dumbwaiter)

Restorations / Civil Inattention / SideOneDummy – Strange Matter, Nov. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Goldtooth, Strumpet, Weatherbox)

Mixtapes / I Accept That / No Sleep – The Camel, Nov. 4 @ 6pm (w/ Real Friends, Forever Came Calling, Pentimento)

Real Friends / Dirty Water / diy

The Dickies / You Drive Me Ape / A&M – Bandito's, Nov. 4 @ 9pm (w/ Chrome Daddy Disco, Creep-A-Zoids)

Bermuda Triangles / Black Knight Satellite / CNP – The Camel, Nov. 5 @ 7pm (w/ Brain Tentacles)

Dysrhythmia / Test of Submission / Profound Lore – Ask a punk, Nov. 2 (w/ Hellbear, Zevious, Navi)

A Lot Like Birds / Think Dirty Out Loud / Equal Vision – Kingdom, Nov. 1 @ 5pm (w/ HRVRD, Night Verses, My Iron Lung)

HRVRD / Cardboard Houses / Equal Vision

Alpha & Omega / Fueled By Sin / 6131 – Kingdom, Nov. 2 @ 5pm (w/ Vanna, Betrayal, The Greenery, Greater Is He, With My Bare Hands)

Circle Takes the Square / Disclaimer to Self / Hyperrealist – Gallery 5, Nov. 5 @ 7pm (w/ B. Dolan, The Blue Letter)

The Blue Letter / Vultures / Init

Orange Goblin / Some you Win, Some You Lose / Rise Above – Strange Matter, Nov. 5 @ 8pm (w/ Holy Grail, Sinister Haze, Lazer/Wolf)

Holy Grail / Crosswinds / Prosthetic

Exhumed / As Hammer to Anvil / Relapse – Strange Matter, Nov. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Necrobeast, Shortbus Pileup, Organ Donor)

Organ Donor / Family Plot Thickens / diy

The Malah / F Street / diy – The Camel, Nov. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Phil Dice)

Even more shows:

Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Oct. 31 @ 8pm

J. Roddy Walston & the Business – Strange Matter, Oct. 31 @ 9pm (w/ The Trillions, Sportsbar)

The Former Champions – The Camel, Oct. 31 @ 9pm (w/ The Silo Effect)

Black Girls – Balliceaux, Oct. 31 @ 10pm

Andy Vaughan & the Driveline – Aces & Eights Tattoo Emporium, Nov. 1 @ 6pm

Woodwork – The Camel, Nov. 1 @ 9pm (w/ Southern Belles)

Mason Wyatt – CD release / O'Toole's, Nov. 1 @ 7pm

Miramar – Lulu's, Nov. 2 @ 8:30pm (w/ Rattan DJ)

Gag – Ask a punk, Nov. 4 (w/ Nightstalker, Cretins)

War on Women – Ask a punk, Nov. 4 @ 7pm (w/ Brief Lives, Volunteer)

Dirty Picture Show – The Camel, Nov. 5 @ 10pm (w/ Legion of Doom)