Activate!Activate! October 2 – October 9

At 7pm, I've got a preview of the upcoming week in Richmond live music, as well as ticket giveaways to Those Manic Seas, Shuggie Otis, Velvet Acid Christ , and The Meat Puppets. Plus, new tracks from Heavy Midgets and  Windhand (pictured), who's celebrating the release of their new LP!

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Activate! 10-2-13

Brian Jones Quartet / Noon is OK / Slang Sanctuary – The Camel, Oct. 8 (w/ Rex Richardson, Randall Pharr, Daniel Clarke)

Ken Vandermark / Drumsax County / Not Two – For Instance Gallery, Oct. 5 @ 8pm (w/ Nate Wooley Duo)

Larry Mitchell Band / Align / String Time – The Camel, Oct. 9 (w/ DJ Williams Projekt)

Eric Strickland and the B Sides / 18 Wheels of Hell On the Highway / diy – River City Barn Dance / Hardywood Brewery, Oct. 5 @ 4pm (w/ Andy Vaughan & The Driveline, Birdseye Speedwell)

The Green Boys / Leaving On a Whim / diy – Balliceaux, Oct. 3 @ 9:30pm

Jonathan Vassar / Turn and Face the Wind / Triple Stamp – Album Release / The Michaux House, Oct. 4 @ 7pm (w/ Chris Kasper, Elzabeth Whitmire)

Psalmships / Carrying Stones / Repent and Release – Ipanema, Oct. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Valdosta)

Colin Hay / Overkill / Compass – John Marshall Ballroom, Oct. 3 @ 8pm

Shuggie Otis / Strawberry letter 23 / A&M – The National, Oct. 8 @ 7pm (w/ John Murry)

Pillars and Tongues / Points of Light / Empty Cellar – Strange Matter, Oct. 7 @ 9pm (w/ Angel Olsen, Nelly Kate)

Malcolm Tent / Moisture / diy – Vinyl Conflict, Oct. 6 @ 6pm

Meat Puppets / Unexplained / Warner – The Southern, Oct. 6 @ 7pm (w/ Enemy Planes)

Scott H. Biram / Blood, Sweat, and Murder / Bloodshot – The Camel, Oct. 3

The Fighting Jamesons / Drunken Sailor / diy – Capital Ale House, Oct. 4 @ 10pm

Qiet / The Vaudevillain / diy – Carnival of 5 Fires / Gallery 5, Oct. 4 @ 7pm (w/ I Am Love, Vulgar Bulgars, Party Liberation Front)

Those Manic Seas / Headache-Heartache / diy – The National, Oct. 5 @ 6:30pm (w/ Vince Kane & The Incurables, Machine Gun Mustache, The Absent Center, Groux)

The White Animals / Don't Care / diy – Canal Club, Oct. 4 @ 8pm (w/ Hoss)

Exwife / Rituals / Evil Weevil – Strange Matter, Oct. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Navi, Houdan the Mystic, Tungs)

Navi / Explosions In the Guy / diy

Heavy Midgets / Real life / diy – Bandito's, Oct. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Naked Baby)

The Sheds / Cycles / Mediaskare – Kingdom, Oct. 7 @ 5pm (w/ A Loss For Words, Handguns, Major League, The North, Like You To Me)

Sportsbar / Movie Screams / Sweet Dreams – Strange Matter, Oct. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Jacuzzi Boys, The Milkstains)

Jacuzzi Boys / A Strange Hand / Hardly Art – Steady Sounds, Oct. 6 @ 5pm

Velvet Acid Christ / Black Rainbows / Metropolis – Fallout, oct. 8 @ 9pm (w/ Venal Flesh, The Twilight Garden)

Child Abuse / Bebe / Lovepump United – Strange Matter, Oct. 9 @ 9pm (w/ R-Complex, Staer, ARF, Dyrt)

Windhand / Orchard / Relapse – LP Release / Strange Matter, Oct. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Druglord, Lugweight, Bastard Sapling)

Lecherous Gaze / Scorpion / Who Can You Trust – McCormack's, Oct. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Sinister Haze, Brainoil, Volture)

Brainoil / Naiive In a Bliss / diy

Death Threat / Like Fools / Only the Lawless Remain – Strange Matter, Oct. 5 @ 5pm (w/ Rude Awakening, Fire & Ice, Paper Trail, Bracewar, Blind Justice)

Rude Awakening / Damaged Goods / Triple B

Paths of Possession / Memory Burn / Metal Blade – Wonderland, Oct. 4 @ 9pm (w/ Promethian Horde)

Promethean Horde / Dark Black Catacomb / diy

Stone Reign / Bloodrush / diy – Wonderland, Oct. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Remnant, Crenshaw)

Gramatik / Moark Jive / Lowtemp – The National, Oct. 3 @ 8pm (w/ Herobust, Exmag)

Even more shows:

Rob Williams – Poe's Pub, Oct. 4 @ 9pm (w/ Paulo Franco)

Dick Buttkiss & the Tight Ends – Vois de Ville Follies Burlesque / Gallery 5, Oct. 5 @ 8pm

Red Lewis – Bogart's, Oct. 5 @ 9pm (w/ Dane Ferguson, Loose Cannon)

The Deems – Cary Street Cafe, Oct. 5 @ 10pm (w/ Celtic Panda)