Weekend Music Round-Up

Friday

• U.S. Air Guitar Championships: Washington D.C. Regional Competition. 9:30 club. $15. All ages.
• Concrete Blues. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Candy Dulfer. Birchmere. $39.50.
• Toadies, The Willowz, Backyard Tire Fire. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
• The Marquees (featuring former members of Marvin Gaye’s first band). Champions Billiards. Free.
• Future, Among Criminals. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10. +21.
• Britny Fox, Baby Jayne. Jaxx. $12.
• The Public Good (CD release), Club Scout, Impossible Hair. Rock and Roll Hotel. $14. All ages.
• Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band, Tom Principato. The State Theatre. $15.
• The Courtesans (CD release), Secret Pop Band, Gist. Velvet Lounge. $8. +18.
• DJ Will Eastman. Cafe Saint Ex.

Saturday

• Cake (Sat.-Sun.). 9:30 club. SOLD OUT. All ages.
• Woven Green, Choptank Murphy. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• An Acoustic Evening With Poco, Firefall. Birchmere. $35.
• Isis, Pelican, Tombs. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
• Jagjit Singh. DAR Constitution Hall. $35-$105.
• Frog Holler, Frontier Ruckus. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10. +21.
• Arise, Ruin with Heal These Wounds. Jaxx. $12.
• Nava Ensemble. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• Congressional Chorus: Fresh Currents: Songs of the New Millennium. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. $35.
• M3 Rock Festival: Twisted Sister, Ratt, Extreme Kix, Dokken, Slaughter, Y&T, Gilby Clarke, Keel, Jetboy, L.A. Guns, Jani Lane (formerly of Warrant), XYZ, BulletBoys, Carmine Appices Slamm, Steel Panther. Merriweather Post Pavilion. $35–$75.
• National Philharmonic Orchestra: Mahler’s “Titan” (Sat.-Sun.). Music Center at Strathmore. $29–$79.
• Au Revoir Simone, Jeff Lewis, The Antlers. Rock and Roll Hotel. $14.
• Bob. The State Theatre. $12.
• Elikeh, DJ Kimozaki. Velvet Lounge. $8. +21.
• DJ Dk. Cafe Saint Ex.

Sunday

• Blues Jam with the Idle Americans. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Forensics, Cinemasophia, Ringfinger. Black Cat Backstage. $8. All ages.
• Katie Melua. Birchmere. $29.50.
• All Things Rock Summer Recital. Jammin’ Java. $8.
• Saverio Mercadante’s “Il Giuramento.” Lisner Auditorium. $30–$90.
• D.C. Youth Orchestra. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Free.

Toadies photo by Jason Janik, via MySpace.