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If you have not seen The Dustys in your time living in the District, you have been sent another opportunity. The pop-rock ensemble—one of Northern Virginia's best rock bands (representing the City of Falls Church)—is at Velvet Lounge tonight on a Merrifield Records lineup. 10 p.m. $8.

Tonight also reaps a couple major Moments in Punk: 1) It's one of the last shows at Gold Leaf Studios, with White Life, Sunset Recorder, Miyazaki, Ra Ra Rasputin in the headlining slot, and DJs between sets (9 p.m. $5. BYOB). Then, there's 2) the fuck-ageism youth punk show at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church, which sheds light on a prejudice not many of us rank high on our list of grievances against society. Give these young folks a chance to rock your mug off. All proceeds go to the All Ages Movement Project. 6 p.m. $5.

As it happens, those venues are rocking all weekend: Saturday is the last D.C. Jazz Loft show at Gold Leaf, with Brian Settles, Kris Funn, Elijah Jamal, and much more (7 p.m., $10); and WCP fav Volta Bureau plays St. Stephen tomorrow eve (7 p.m. doors, $5).

Also in jazz, on Sunday, Michael J. West tosses in his cap for pipa player Min Xiao-Fen's jazz performance at Bohemian Caverns. Miles and Monk on a lute-like instrument? Sounds delightful. Read about that over in City Lights.

FILM

Even the trailer for Dark Girls, a documentary by D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke, will bring a quiver to your lips: The filmmakers investigate deep and ugly biases against dark-skinned black women, who speak—often through tears—of being made to feel alienated and unattractive for as long as they can remember. The film shows tonight at Warner Theatre. 8 p.m. $35-$70.

Interest unstoked? Cruise over to our listings department and find something you like.

Photo of The Gumbas by Sasha Lord.

There's a third name that generally rounds out the holy trinity of great first-wave female-fronted punk bands: The Raincoats. Of course, the narratives of music history are necessarily selective and occasionally downright goofy, so this grouping always leaves out a bunch of other entirely worthy female-led bands (Dolly Mixture, the Mo-dettes, Delta 5, Girlschool, and Essential Logic, to name just a few) and neglects the fact that The Raincoats didn’t sound much like their punk contemporaries (their jaunty, chaotic compositions made them earlypractitioners of post-punk more than anything else). But the gods of punk canonicity have always smiled favorably on The Raincoats. Joe Strummer loved them, John Lydon called them his favorite band of the era, and in the early '90s, independent music's most influential curator ever, Kurt Cobain, introduced them to a whole new generation of fans when he cited the band's 1979 self-titled record as one of his all-time favorites. Cobain's adulation prompted one of those deliciously bizarre major-label flukes that could have only happened in the early '90s: Geffen reissued The Raincoats' entire back catalog. The newly reformed band was preparing to support Nirvana on its next tour right before Cobain's death.

Though The Raincoats had reformed a number of times and released new material as recently as 1996 (Looking in the Shadows), the prevailing sentiment in the crowd before Saturday night's show at Comet was that none of us ever thought we'd see The Raincoats live—let alone in D.C., let alone in the back room of a ping-pong-and-pizza joint where a child's birthday party had wrapped up not half an hour before, let alone in a space so wonderfully and unbelievably small. On the occasion of their 1981 album Odyshape's rerelease, the band booked just six September shows in North America, which made the fact that they'd landed at Comet seem that much more serendipitous. There's been a certain inevitability to most of the reunion shows that have rolled through town recently, but everything about this one felt a little bit surreal.

And it was an entire bill fit for a special occasion. The crowd was treated to a rare live performance from Ian Svenonius's meta-band Felt Letters, who found time between their slinky grooves to perform skits in which they casually communed with the spirits of Buddy Holly and John Bonham. Svenonius asked the spirits to channel any great songs they happened to have through Felt Letters, and I believe it was Bonham who offered up a song he'd written called "600,000 Bands." Truly an anthem for these times: "Everybody wants you to listen to [their band]/But you can't right now because you're listening to this."

Up next was the San Francisco three-piece Grass Widow, who play surf-rock-inspired post-punk songs that sound like they've become lost in a hall of mirrors. Full of tumbling drums, spring-wound riffs, and off-kilter harmonies, their set was comprised of new material, cuts from their first two EPs, and a terrifically shimmery Neo Boys cover. The whole thing seemed surreal to them too: They said some variation of "We can't believe we're here opening for the Raincoats" between more or less every one of their songs.

Then out came The Raincoats, opening with a lively, pitch-perfect rendition of "No Side to Fall In." Save for the seat behind the band's drum kit, which has always been a revolving door, it was the 1978 1994 lineup: co-vocalists Ana da Silva and Gina Birch, along with multi-instrumentalist Vicky Aspinall Anne Wood, whose offbeat violin playing made the band stand out among its post-punk peers. Though there was some occasional dead time between songs, the performance was forceful and full of that kinetic energy that animates all of their records. The average Raincoats song is alive with a bunch of disparate elements—teetering, wobbling, and careening so wildly that the moments when they all come together almost feel like happy accidents.

Da Silva wrote most of the band's biggest hits and most immediate hooks: "Fairytale in the Supermarket," "Shouting Out Loud," "No Looking," "The Void" (reportedly the personal favorite of Kurt and Courtney both)—all of which made it onto Saturday’s set list. But it was Birch—whose songs are more challenging on the records—who cut an even more compelling live presence. For me, the highlight of the night was a run of two newer songs Birch sang mid-set: First, “Feminist Song,” an anthem about the delicate balance of being both angry and happy; its chorus asserts with weary pride, “The city made me this way.” Next came the searing, emotionally direct Shadows cut “Babydog,” which opens with Birch singing the line, “I thought I’d have a baby/But my body said no.” She gets a dog instead, and spends the rest of the song yelling about her love for the creature with equal parts exuberance and pathos. It was an arresting performance, drawing both cheers and tears from people around me.

This wasn't nostalgia, exactly. Not a band trying to recapture note-for-note the youthful spirit of their heyday, but a performance that embraced maturity and bravely articulated the struggles that come with it—and a crowd actively engaged in everything these women had to say. The Raincoats have stood for a lot of things over the years, and you got the sense on Saturday night that they were still working them out right there before us, very much alive.

Hume

"We made great creative strides in a pretty finite amount of time," says Wilson Kemp, the quartet's drummer. Hume's members lived together, ate together, and handled the business of operating a band together. The keyword, according to Kemp: "holistic." Trippy.

For the first two weeks of the stay, the band improvised all day, every day, and then recorded for several weeks. "[The songs are] much more organic," says Kemp. "We all arrived there in the moment."

Back in December, I praised Hume's 43-minute EP (43-minute EP!) Penumbra for not quite meandering despite its lengthy track lengths. The record flirted with that strange, early-'70s moment in which psychedelic music transformed into prog rock.

The new stuff, Kemp says, is "much more linear and way more layered," says Kemp. It has intention, he says, and focus. The band laid down about 90 minutes of music, and is returning to Argyle soon to record vocals and mix the record. Then they'll tour for two months in the fall.

I'm guessing what this means is that the band is now tighter and more graceful and more concise, which is why their Comet Ping Pong show tonight with Dope Body and Buildings should be fascinating. The first 20 people in the door get a free silkscreen, says Kemp. And the band is selling a limited edition CD demo containing material from the Argyle sessions.

There are still some open questions for the band. Will they release the next record on local label Sockets? Can they make the band sustainable? (The current two-week tour with Dope Body has been successful "financially and vibe-wise," Kemp says.) Will they return to D.C.? They're planning an Arglye-like session in Savannah, Ga., this winter, but after that, the future is wide open. I can dig a nomadic Hume. Tonight's show is at 10:30 p.m. $10.

Before Brian Tristan was Kid Congo Powers, he was "ThePrez"—a name conferred upon him by Joey Ramone. Kid Congo became an important post-punk figure in the 1980s as a member of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, but before all that, at age 17, he was the president of the Ramones' fan club. "They knew a good thing to have a hungry kid round up the troops," he says. "All you needed was access to a xerox machine and some self-addressed stamped envelopes from the fans."

Just a few years later, The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce helped teach Kid how to play guitar, but in open tuning rather than standard. To this day, Kid still "only exclusively plays in open tuning. It keeps the sound special." So that's some of what you can expect when Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds play at Comet Ping Pong tonight.

Kid joined bands like The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Bad Seeds the same way he became involved with the Ramones—by being a fan. "If I liked a band at that time I would just go up and tell them. Before The Gun Club I had never played guitar. My style is self-taught and just it's own thing. I think people like The Cramps and Nick Cave saw this as a big plus. Music for us was not just playing something weird—it was more about creating a new language."

After playing in an early incarnation of The Gun Club, Kid joined The Cramps in 1980, and traded in his birth name at the suggestion of singer Lux Interior. Lux "had a Santeria candle that read 'when you light this candle Congo Powers will be revealed to you.'" He did a couple of more stints in The Gun Club before joining Nick Cave's crew in the late-'80s. He's been releasing music under his own name since 2005, and moved to D.C. several years ago.

Let's not go to deep into Kid's past, though; if you want to know more, he's writing a memoir. Not that he's thinking about the past too much. "I am proud of my accomplishments and luck to collaborate with what I consider the greats of my milieu," he says. "But, as a workaholic,  looking forward to doing the next project is what is in the forefront of my mind rather than the past."

Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds perform tonight with Chain & the Gang at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. 10:30 p.m. $12.

Steve Kiviat writes:

Tel Aviv power-rockers Monotonix are not celebrated for their albums. Just like previous efforts, last month's  Steve Albini-produced Not Yet blends hookless shouting with self-indulgent guitar riffs, and the result sounds like an unsuccessful MC5-Led Zeppelin hybrid. But live, the trio compensates with pure spectacle. Singer Avi  Shalev leaps into the crowd and pours beer on himself and fans; guitarist Yonatan Gat usually ditches the stage and plays among the audience. When he's not surfing the crowd with his drums—keeping beat all the while—Haggai Fershtman sets his sticks and sometimes his whole kit on fire. It's not uncommon for promoters of police to restrain Monotonix, so it'll be interesting to see what the band can get away with in upper Northwest. With Federation X. Pujol. $12. 10:30 p.m. show. Comet Ping Pong.

Harlem Arts Ensemble with Dr. Salim Washington. 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.  Friday and Saturday. Twins Jazz.

Fresh Produce Festival Kickoff: Perfomances by Bluebrain, Contradiction Dance. Emma Jaster. Paco Fish. $15. 8 p.m. The Fridge.

Best of Saturday:

Sure, you can find a dozen or so dance parties happening each weekend, but ring the alarm for KIDS. After a brief hiatus, the classic '90s hip-hop throwback fest is returning to DC9 along with DJ Lil' Elle (she left D.C. for San Francisco). KIDS is peddling its usual win-win-win formula: free Olde English, free condoms, and free entry if you arrive before 10 p.m. $5 after 10 p.m. With DJs Nacey, Steve Starks, and Jackie O. 21+

Another pick from Steve Kiviat:

Corey Harris is often billed simply as an acoustic bluesman, but he's more than that. The 41-year-old Richmond resident is the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and has a degree in anthropology; he's studied linguistics and music in Mali, Cameroon, and Ethiopia. Harris has periodically departed from old-school strumming, and he does so again on 2009's blu.black. Working with a band lef by organist Peanut Whitley, Harris showcases his soulful vocals on the gospel-tinged "My Song" and on roots-reggae tracks "Babylon walls" and "Columbus." Although Harris' socially conscious lyrics are a tad generic, if you're paying attention to his creative fingerwork and church-rooted warbling, you probably won't mind. With the Rasta Blues Experience. $25. 8 and 10 p.m. Blues Alley.

Martin Bisi has produced a Grammy-winning single for Herbie Hancock, engineered for Afrika Bambaataa and Sonic Youth, and once upon a time, started a studio with Brian Eno. For all of his working through the indie ranks, Bisi still remains on the fringe of the fringes as a musician and could probably care less. Oh, and the guy is immensely watchable—see what I mean in his "Goth Chick '98" video. With Brian Viglione of The Dresnden Dolls. The Plums and Fern Night. $10. 10:30 p.m show. Comet Ping Pong.

Best of Sunday:

Kelly LeBrock from Weird Science, the cruising style of Hall & Oates, and the talk-box perfection of Zapp and Rodger's "Computer Love"—these are some of the touchpoints for Chromeo, the self-proclaimed "only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture." The Montreal-born duo established its opulent, if at times gimmicky, electronic pastiche of 80s excess with the 2004 debut She's in Control. Lead singer David Macklovitch's husky falsetto stutters platitudes and come-ons, while new-age funkmaster P-Thugg engineers unerring approximations of glistening Cameo keyboard riffs and narrates via talk-box on hits like "Needy Girl." Last year's Business Casual is another well-executed experiment in back-to-the-'80s time travel; considering Chromeo has named the album’s supporting tour “Risky Business,” expect more of the same. With MNDR and The Suzan. SOLD OUT. 8 p.m. doors. 9:30 Club.

Friday:

Friday Night Eclectic: Ra Ra Rasputin and Hume. $10/$12. 8 p.m. Mansion at Strathmore. All ages
Tea Leaf Green. With The Bridge. $17. 8 p.m. doors. 9:30 Club.
Left on Vermont (CD Release Party). The Public Good. The Crash Take-Off. $10. 9:30 p.m. show. Rock and Roll Hotel.
Tom McBride. Evan Bliss and The Welchers.  $12. 9 p.m. show. Iota Club.
Hunter Valentine. Vanity Theft. $8. 7 p.m. show. U Street Music Hall. 18 +.
Corey Harris. $25. 8 p.m and 10 p.m. Through 2/5. Blues Alley.
J Raud and the Firing Squad. Benyaro. $8. 10 p.m. show. Velvet Lounge. 21+

Saturday:
Tuvan throat-singing with the Huun-Huur-Tu Ensemble. $20-$28. 8 p.m. Artisphere.
Cryfest: The Cure vs. The Smiths Dance Party. $10. 9:30 p.m. doors. Black Cat.
Violens. Class Actress. Que Sera DJ set (Singer of US Royalty). $10/$12. 10 p.m. show. The Red Palace. 18+.
The Very Small. No Compromise. Savage Badger Vags. 7 Door Sedan. $10. 9 p.m. show. Rock and Roll Hotel.
DC Folklore Society: Winter Mid-Festival. Takoma Park Middle School. Here for more info.
Saxophonist Walter Beasley. $39.50. 7:30 p.m. Birchmere.
Fishnet Stalkers. The Bators. Nervous Impulse. Sidewalk Driver. $8. 10 p.m. show. Velvet Lounge.

Sunday:
Saxophonist Danny Janklow. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Twins Jazz.
The Castle Trio and Friends. Free. 7:30 p.m. National Museum of American History.

Perhaps Tel Aviv wasn't the best environment for Israeli rockers Monotonix to grow as a band.

You can hear regional and traditional sounds in Monotonix's music, and a familiarity with mainstream pop culture. But the band is quick to admit that its hyper-energetic, often chaotic live sets and the electronic pulse of its songs have made the band somewhat of an outlier in a country that—centuries-long regional conflicts notwithstanding—tends to move at a rather easy pace.  "Israel is a young country," drummer Haggai Fershtman says. "Lots of food, sun, and spirit, but it's more about that sort of vibe than music there."

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we will die. What, Haggai: Food, sun, and spirit isn't enough for you? Apparently not. And mortality never seems to be a major concern for Monotonix, at least when it performs live. A Monotonix show is all entropy, and that's evenbefore the band gets to its signature outrageous stunts. Frequently, Fershtman will perform while crowd-surfing, drum kit and all. There have been instances in which the band's members have set themselves on fire.

That rawness wasn't suitable for Tel Aviv, at least in the eyes of nightclub owners. But Monotonix had to start somewhere. "There is no tradition yet, in Tel Aviv," says Fershtman.  "Because of that, you pick the rules."

Fershtman says the band wants to "get over the barrier of the stage, because we're not just artists. We want to see what happens when the crowd gets involved."

Tonight the band plays at Comet Ping Pong in Chevy Chase, D.C., which at least size-wise should be ideal for the band. "The small settings are more special," says Fershtman.  "We can work personally with the crowd, and it makes the mosh more interesting."

The Best of Friday:
SHAME! on The Walkmen for not having a 2-night run in their home town. These guys are about as good as it gets in terms of live performances go–this coming from a gal who saw them after living in Nashville, TN for a year. Really, lead singer Hamilton Leithauser looks like he should be half-assing hours at some boring NGO job he can't stand instead of fronting a very specific brand of melancholic indie-rock. If you were smart enough to buy advanced tickets, don't try and decipher why the band sounds so damn sad. With Tennis. 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. 9:30 Club.

The Best of Saturday:
Can you dig soul clap, ping-pong, and pizza in one awesome venue?  Sasha Lord has collaborated with DJ Jonathan Toubin for the second annual New York Night Train's Soul Clap and Dance-off. Kid Congo Powers and Will Eastman will be among the judges. It will be everything good. Competition at midnight; doors open at 10:30 p.m. $5 cover. Comet Ping Pong.

Catch The Antlers before they mosey off to Japan this winter to tour with Local Natives. With The Luvyas. 9:00 p.m. $15. Black Cat.

The Best of Sunday:
Sun- and surf-infused good-time music with Chief (not The Chief, simply Chief) might just be the best way to end the first cold week in D.C. The L.A.-based four-piece are masters of pretty, mellow melodies. And if they wear some of those extreme sternum-bearing trendy tank tops, it might be a remedy to early onset seasonal affective disorder. With the Dig and Paul Michel. 8:30 p.m. $10/12. Rock and Roll Hotel.

Belleruche, London's  "turnatable soul trio" takes the stage with opening sets from DJ Christine Moritz and DJ Modest.  U Street Music Hall. 9:00 pm. show. $12.

The Rest of Friday:

• GIRLS ROCK! benefit show for the Girls Rock Camp Alliance. 10:30 p.m. Comet Ping Pong.
• Dirty Bomb with Poor But Sexy, JC, and Brooks and the Uptown Sound. 10 p.m. $12.
• Alan Palmer's New Soil. 8 p.m. $18/$22. Bohemian Caverns.
• Rockapella. Holiday concert. 8 p.m. $28-$44. Hylton Performing Arts Center.
• Four Bitchin’ Babes. Also Saturday. 7:30 p.m. $35. Birchmere.
• Handel’s Messiah with the Cathedral choirs. 7:30 p.m. Also Saturday and Sunday. $20-$80. Washington National Cathedral.

• Scythian and Enter the Haggis.  9 p.m. $15. 9:30 Club.
• Xeno and Oaklander. Screen Vinyl Image. Phonic Riot. Death Domain. 10:00 p.m. $8. Velvet Lounge.
  
• The Alexandria Symphony performs Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite. 3:00 p.m. $20. Artisphere.

• Danú: Christmas in Ireland. 4 p.m. $26-$42. Hylton Performing Arts Center.
• Bad. Loud.Trio. Call for ticket information. 8:00 & 10:00 p.m. Twins Jazz.

The Best of Friday:

Every now and then, an artist comes along who scares the shit out of you. Arrington de Dionyso (formerly of Old Time Relijun) is that kind of a fellow. He creates arresting sound spheres that are both spectral and primitive. As a performance artist and self-proclaimed shaman for the 21st century, he creates raw-earth music, music for communing and for anthropological contemplation. Tuvan-style throat-singing combine with Indonesian lyrics and haphazard translations of the poet William Blake on his debut Malaikat album. The hallucinogenic and ecstatic is interrupted with grunting belches and burps of the earth, vocalized by a sputtering clarinet. It makes your body hum. The $10 suggested donation (the show is a benefit for Transformer gallery) for a survey course in ethnomusicology is a  serious bargain. 10:30 p.m. All ages.Comet Ping Pong.

Phasefest: DC's Queer Music Festival. Friday and Saturday. $15, $20. Phase 1. There's something for everyone: See website for full lineup.

The Best of Saturday:

The Gershwin Project revisits the work of an American master who held iconic status in Soviet Russia as an emblem of American culture. With Russian pianists Genadi Zagor and Vakhtang Kodanashvili, the Russian Gershwin Post-Classical Ensemble performs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (with improvised solos), Three Preludes, Concerto in F and Cuban Overture. Preconcert presentation with Richard Crawford at 7 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. $42. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Bliss 10 Year Anniversary Party: Will Eastman, Brian Billion. $10. 10 p.m. show. 18+.

Curtis Fuller. $20 preshow, $25 doors,7:30 doors, 8:30 show. Friday and Saturday night. Bohemian Caverns.

The Best of Sunday:

The Flail. Call for Price. Saturday and Sunday 9pm and 11pm. Twins Jazz.

Head-Rock. AK Slaughter. Height. $10. 9 p.m.  Black Cat.

The Rest of Friday:

• Eels w/ Jesca Hoop $25. 7pm doors. 9:30 Club

• Titus Andronicus, Free Energy, Last Tide. SOLD OUT. Rock & Roll Hotel
• Papago Warrior.  Free. 6 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert Hal
• NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert. 8 p.m. Free. The Strathmore.

• Curtis Fuller. $20 pre-show, $25 doors,7:30 doors, 8:30 show. Bohemian Caverns. Friday and Saturday night.
• Field Music, Bellman Barker, The Beanstalk Library. $10 pre-show, $12 day of. 8:30 doors, 9:30 show. Rock & Roll Hotel
• Ben Sollee: Ditch the Van Tour. $15.  7:30pm. The Strathmore.
• Joe Sample. $43. 8pm & 10pm. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Blues Alley.
• Surprise! At the Club!! Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros $25. 8pm doors. 9:30 Club
• The Boxer Rebellion , Amusement Parks on Fire, Augustines $13 9pm. Black Cat

• 500 Miles to Memphis. $8. 9pm.  The Red and the Black. 21+.
• The Walkaways, w/ Brother Shamus and Memphis 59.  $12. 9pm. Iota Club
• Cerca Trova. Iona Sound. All In Karma. Light Up The Sky $10, $13. 6pm. Jammin Java.
• Dia + Mista Forty + Socz + Sonny Black. $13. 10 pm. Jammin Java
• Swamp Keepers Band. Call for time and price. Zoo Bar
• Loose Lips. Ravenous. Lenorable. Skelliton. $8. 9pm doors. 10pm show.Velvet Lounge. 21+.

The Rest of Saturday:

• Tosin Aribisala. Free. 7 pm. Atlas Performing Arts Center.
• Flat Foot Sam & The Educated Fools. Call for time and price. Zoo Bar
• Cornel West Theory. Noon:30. Voids Moan. Thela Blu, Zebulun. $8. 10 p.m. Velvet Lounge. 21+.
• Univers Zero & Miriodor 7pm. La Maison Francaise
  
• Bullet for My Valentine w/Escape the Fate. Black Tide. Drive A. $30. 6pm doors. 9:30 Club
• BSO: Mahler's Seventh Symphony: $28- $88. 8 pm. The Strathmore.
• Kinch. Overrun. Shortwave Communique. $8. The Red and the Black. 21+.
• David Bazan + Band. Mynabirds, $15. Black Cat
• Colourslide, w/ My Radio and w/ Jeff Himmelman $12. 9pm. Iota Club
• X-MC. The Yachtsmen. Sleeper Agent. $5. 10:30 pm. All ages. Comet Ping Pong.
• Caroline Herring. $12. 7pm. Jammin Java
• 10:00PM Jason Reeves+ Trent Hancock. $10, $13. 10pm. Jammin Java
• Twins of a Gazelle. BeatShark. Great Elk. $8. 830pm. DC9. 18+.
• Basia Bulat & The Acorn, Sam Izdat. $10 pre-show, $12 doors.
• Sugarland. $35.75-$65.75. 4pm. Jiffy Lube Live
• Alice in Chains w/Deftones and Mastodon. $49.50-$59.50. 7 pm. Patriot Center.
• Inaugural Asian and Pacific Islander American Talent Competition and Showcase. 7 p.m.  Lisner Auditorium
• United States Navy Band:Sea Chanters Concert. Free. 7:30 pm. Washington National Cathedral
• Jackopierce.  7:30 pm. $29.50. Birchmere.
• Capital City Symphony with Charlie Barnett and Chaise Lounge Symphony Lounge. $20-$30. 8 pm. Atlas Performing Arts Center.
• Invader. Julie Hall. The 6th Degree. The Blackshire. The More You Know.Suffer No Guilt. Just My Luck. Cyberstrike. Evereaux. Provence. $10 pre-show, $12 doors. 5:00pm doors, 5:15 show. All Ages. Jaxx.
  

The Rest of Sunday:

• Locos por Juana. Free. 6 pm. Kennedy Center Concert Hall
• Joe Brooks. 7 pm. Jammin Java.
• Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà 7 pm. $25-$25. Lisner Auditorium
• WPOC Sunday in the Country: Lady Antebellum. Eric Church. Joe Nichols. Gloriana .Bucky Covington. Matt Kennon $45-$75. 1pm Merriweather Post Pavillon.
• Slash wednesday, Southlawn, Xuberx. $8. 7:30 doors, 9pm show. Velvet Lounge. 21+.
• AJ Parham $8. 7-11 pm HR57

Friday

• Jakob Dylan, Three Legs, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan, Mimicking Birds. 9:30 Club. $25.
• Lucy Kaplansky. Wolf Trap. $20.
• Gist, Gary B. & the Notions, The Courtesy Line. The Red & The Black. $8.
• Eilen Jewell, Little Pink. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
• The Blue Line, Poor But Sexy, The Very Small. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10.
• Buckshot Blues. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• The Last Monarchs, Nick Coward and the Last Battle, Bobby Lee and the Sympathizers. Velvet Lounge. $8. 21+.
• The Tallest Man on Earth, Nurses. Black Cat mainstage. $12.
• Mavis Staples. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. $38.
• Oranges Band, Doug Gillard Electric, The Andalusians. Comet Ping Pong. $8.
• Cannibal Corpse, Skeletonwitch, Diabolic, Lecherous Nocturne, C.O.B.C. Jaxx. $24.50 in advance, $28 day of.
• Dragonette, Think About Life. DC9. $8. 18+.

Saturday

• Patti LuPone. Strathmore. $25-$85.
• Buskin & Batteau. Wolf Trap. $22.
• The Protomen, The Prigs. The Red & The Black. $8.
• The Walkaways, The Kate Moran Band, Stella Schindler. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
• Amanda Blank, Ninjasonik, DJ Jackie-O. Rock and Roll Hotel. $16.
• Outliers. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Quasi, Let's Wrestle. Black Cat mainstage. $12.
• The Nields, Trina Hamlin. Jammin Java. $15.
• In Alcatraz 1962, Lakeview, Behold the Flood, Discover Her Remains, Kendal Burke, Viliska, This Murder Means More, Anubis, Vile Infection, Failing the Fallen. Jaxx. $10 in advance, $12 day of.
• Charlie Wilson, Chuck Brown. DAR Constitution Hall. $45-$65.

Sunday

• Tim Be Told, Omar of Crash Boom Bang. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
• Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust. Black Anvil. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12.
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Magical Beautiful. Black Cat backstage. $10.
• The Clark Sisters. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• Anais Mitchell and the Hadestown Orchestra, Michael Chorney Sextet. Jammin Java. $15.
• The RLC Explosion, Gomorrah, Zero Shift, Streaking on Seneca, Radamanthys, The Bourbon Devils, Failing the Fallen, Silence the Blind, The 6th Degree, Touching Elbows, Histrionic Witch. Jaxx. $8 in advance, $10 day of.
• Dosh, White Hinterland, Andrew Black and Malari Moore. DC9. $10 in advance, $12 day of. 18+.

Friday

• Martin Sexton, Ryan Montbleau Band. 9:30 Club. $25.
• Jamie McLean Band. Strathmore. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
• Livingston Taylor. Wolf Trap. $22.
• Horsehead, Hiding Places, Deutschmarks. The Red & The Black. $8. 21+.
• Laura Tsaggaris, James Maddock. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12.
• Pissed Jeans, Cloak/Dagger, The Wayward. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10 in advance, $12 at door.
• Rhododendron Road. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Little Bigheart & the Wilderbeast, Sean K. Preston, East Coast Caravan. Velvet Lounge. $8. 21+.
• Shortstack, Birds of Avalon, Suns of Guns. Black Cat mainstage. $12.

Saturday

• Jedi Mind Tricks, Mr. Lif. 9:30 Club. $17.
• DeLeon, The Torches. The Red & The Black. $10. 21+.
• RPM, Brad Sanzerbacher and the Purveyors. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
• Beltway Rockers. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Alvin Risk, TightenUp!/McWorm, City Rain. Velvet Lounge. $8. 21+.
• The Remnant Concert Choir of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• Strotter Inst., Pilesar, Blue Sausage Infant. Comet Ping Pong. $8.
• Jason Reeves, Chelsea Lee. Jammin Java. $10 in advance, $13 day of.
• Crash Boom Bang, Conditions, Life on Repeat, Rescue the Hero, Escape the Armada. Jaxx. $10 in advance, $12 day of.
• Francis and the Lights, Ryan Holladay. DC9. $10.

Sunday

• Kidz in the Hall, 88-Keys, Izza Kizza, Donnis, Tabi Bonney. 9:30 Club. $20.
• National Philharmonic. Strathmore. $29-$79.
• Blankus Larry. IOTA Club & Cafe. $10.
• The Apples in Stereo, Generationals, Laminated Cat. Rock and Roll Hotel. $15.
• Jazz Jam. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Greg Ginn and the Texas Corrugators, CSC Funkband. Velvet Lounge. $10. 18+.
• The Styrenes. Velvet Lounge. $10. 18+.
• Richard Smallwood & Vision. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• Heks Orkest, The Fordists. Black Cat backstage. $10.
• Jammin' 4 Haiti. Jammin Java. $8.
• Roman Candle, Paper Bird, Tao Seeger Band. Jammin Java. $10 in advance, $13 at door.
• With the Black Kid, Awaiting the Aftermath, Siren to the Skies, I Am Imagination, Out Forever, Counting Out Loud, Legions Prevail, Vitality, The Grue. Jaxx. $10 in advance, $12 day of.
• Unwed Sailor, Common Loon. DC9. $8 in advance, $10 day of. 18+.

Ryan Montbleau Band photo by Chris Paul, via MySpace.