Whoa damn. D-Plan just released more tickets to tonight's twice-sold-out show at the Black Cat. GET THEM QUICKLY. UPDATE: They're sold out.

The best of the entire weekend
The Dismemberment Plan, performing tonight at the Black Cat (sold out), and Saturday and Sunday (also sold out) at 9:30 Club.
I loathe to admit, but I've yet to earn my D-Plan stripes. It's not looking like this will be the weekend to do so either. In all matters Dismemberment Plan, [...]

It's all been online for nearly a day already, but in case you missed something, this week's dead-tree City Paper has lots of sexy stuff:

Leor Galil profiles D.C. grindcore trio Magrudergrind, who pissed off some of their peers by releasing an EP through Scion, the Toyota brand. But why are grindcore kids still hung up [...]

Oh snap: The Black Cat and 9:30 Club just released a few more tickets to the (previously) sold out Dismemberment Plan shows there this weekend. Act quickly! Here's the Black Cat show. 9:30 Club: Saturday, Sunday.

Hey kids, don't forget about the Twitter list. If you're not on it, we're probably still waiting for you to say something worthy of it. But you can rest assured that Far Out vs. Hot Dang is totally panoptical: When you finally do get your game tizzight, we'll see it. Unless we're blacked-out for one [...]

Brian Schanck was 15 years old when a friend played him Emergency & I, the third album by The Dismemberment Plan. “The music was euphonious and the lyrics hit home,” he says, recalling the D.C. indie rock band’s oddball pairing of funk rhythms and emo narrative. He dug it.
When Schanck turned 18, he tattooed the [...]

As the band prepares for its reunion shows, THINGS ARE GETTING A LITTLE UNRULY. From tha Facebook:
This chunk of cymbal broke off, flew across the room, and impaled Eric at practice. We were moments from calling in a sub (Keanu Reeves? Lemmy?), but luckily he survived. Some drummers hit harder than [...]

The Dismemberment Plan is reuniting this month, and the hometown indie rock heroes are performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon before their string of live dates. What'll D-Plan play? Tell them!
The band is soliciting suggestions on Twitter and on its Facebook page today: They need one song to play on the air, and an additional [...]

In this week's Music in Review issue of the print edition of Washington City Paper, I revisited a handful of the many exploits of Bluebrain, the duo that Arts Desk has repeatedly heralded as D.C.'s most interesting band. But for good measure. "The Year in Bluebrain" recaps Ryan and Hays Holladay's outings from the four-track "Cakeblood" [...]

That's what the band just announced on its website: On Jan. 20, the reunited D.C. indie rockers will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Want tickets? Find out about that here.
The band also announced a Seattle date for March 12. Plus: Parse what you will from the line "The shows listed below are all [...]