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.

Tags: Au Revoir Simone, Bob, Cake, Congressional Chorus, D.C. Youth Orchestra, DJ Dk, DJ Kimokazi, DJ Will Eastman, Elikeh, M3 Rock Festival, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Pelican, Ratt, Secret Pop Band, The Antlers, Toadies, Twisted Sister, U.S. Air Guitar Championships, Weekend Music Round-Up