Friday

eNVee, Stacy Brooks. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
Leo Kottke. Birchmere. $35.
Bill Callahan (Smog), Lights. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
An Evening w/ Lynda Carter (Fri.-Sat.). Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. $45–$75.
Original Tuxedo Jazz Band (Part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival). Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
Apostle of Hustle, Black and Tan Fantasy Band, DJ Yellow [...]

The opener for Built to Spill and the Meat Puppets last night at the 9:30 Club was the Drones, a noise-rock quartet from Melbourne, Australia. The audience loved them; I'd never heard of them. Nor did I love them. Too much of what I heard last night was just noise, plain and simple.
I'm not anti-noise [...]