American University’s WVAU is hosting its final fall installment of the student-run free concert series Capitol Punishment Saturday night. The show will be in AU’s Kay Spiritual Center. Doors at 6:30; show at 7; all ages; free.

The lineup includes:

Imperial China
Caverns
Solar Powered Sun Destroyer
Hammer No More The Fingers

Friday

• DJ Steve Love, DJ Jackie O, DJ Philip Goyette, DJ Max Imus, DJ Sean Gone. Red Lounge. Free before 10. $5 after 10. +21.
• DJ Chris Burns. Cafe Saint-Ex. Free. +21.
• DJ Kostas. 18th Street Lounge. Free. +21.
• DJ DK. Blackcat. $5. All Ages
• DJ Micah Vellian, DJ Outputmessage. Rock and Roll Hotel. Free. +21.
• Liberation Dance Party. DC9. $6. +21.

Saturday

• DJ Mark Zimin, Black Cat. $10. All Ages.
• Dj Ca$$idy, DJ Austin. Rock and Roll Hotel. Free. +21
• DJ Mark Zimin, DJ Jess Okay, DJ Stereofaith. DC9. Free 9-10. $8 after 10. +21
• DJ Sabo, DJ Zeb. 18th Street Lounge. Free. +21.
• DJ Moose. Saint Ex. Free. +21.

The Homosexuals formed in 1977 as a riotous anti-establishment punk band in the U.K.—the trashier, grittier, less punctual version of the Clash and the Sex Pistols. The band was largely scattered, working on several side projects while also playing as the Homosexuals. They never pushed out a studio LP and never went on tour, but tomorrow, after fourteen years of hibernation, they’re coming to Washington. The band recently put out Astral Glamour, a three-disc posthumous collection of studio and live material. Their first tour brings them to the Velvet Lounge Thursday with Martin Bisi and The Cheniers.

Black Plastic Bag sat down with Homosexuals frontman Bruno Wizard to talk about punk and politics.

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Baltimore cult legend Dan Deacon put on an explosive set Friday night at Hirshhorn After Hours. Aside from the thunderous synth- and midi-based experimental dance music, Deacon’s set included a crowd run around the Hirshhorn quarters, a gesture that wasn’t well received by many in the Hirshhorn martini-drinking crowd, a dance contest, and lots of inevitable sweaty moving and dancing from the hundreds of enthusiastic fist-thumping Deacon fans.

More photos after the jump:

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Blog darlings Crystal Antlers and local post-punk band extraordinaire True Womanhood are at the Black Cat tonight; 9 p.m.; $8; all ages.

The UK’s legendary blue-collar anti-folk singer/song writer Billy Bragg will be at the 9:30 Club tonight with The Watson Twins; 7 p.m.; $35 all ages.

For an explosive math rock/post-rock/experimental showcase, head to DC9 to see former Hella guitarist Spencer Seim’s new band sBach (pictured) with Four Fins of the Rocket [Full disclosure: This is my band]; 8:30 p.m.; $10; 18+.

Check out The Rosebuds (pictured here and previewed in City Lights) and The Oranges Band tonight at Black Cat. 8 p.m.; $12; all ages.

Dexter Romweber Duo (former frontman of Flat Duo Jets) with Silver Spring-based One Track Mind subjects 7 Door Sedan at The Red & the Black.; 9:30 p.m.; $10; 21+.

Tonight at DC9: The Everyday Visuals ( alt-pop from Boston), The Public Good, Gary B & The Notions; 9 p.m.; $8; 21+.

Shame Club, Ambition Burning (Fairfax hardcore), and Par Coeur are playing at Velvet Lounge; 9 p.m.; $7; 21+.

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer benefit tonight at Asylum with performance by Maybe Tomorrow; 7 p.m.; 21+.

The Black Crowes are playing the next three nights at 9:30 Club; 7 p.m.; $45; all ages.

Last summer I took a trip to Brooklyn to check out Mother Mother, since the Canadian band only had two U.S. dates on their ’07 tour, both in New York. I stood five feet away from the stage and was instantly captivated. Their debut album, Touch Up, released in 2007 on Last Gang Records, had been on constant iPod rotation since it dropped. There was something about their Vancouver sensibility and genial alt-folk sound that made songs like “Dirty Town” and “Polynesia” more than just powerfully catchy tunes; the songs became a part of my life soundtrack. The voices of singer/guitar player Ryan Guldemond, Molly Guldemond (Ryan’s sister), and Debra-Jean Creelman combine to create a hauntingly harmonic wall of sound that is sometimes chill-inducing.

Mother Mother is now touring the United States to promote their new album, O My Heart. They’ll be stopping DC9 this Saturday with Ki: Theory and the Blackout District.

Ryan Guldemond took a few minutes out of his tour schedule to answer some questions for Black Plastic Bag.

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Stop Smiling, a bi-monthly arts and culture magazine out of Chicago, themed its most recent issue around the District. The DC issue includes in-depth interviews with some of the city’s brightest and influential writers and commentators, including: Ken Silverstein, Ana Marie Cox, Mike Gravel, Thomas Frank, and Christopher Buckley, and cover stories on George Pelecanos and Backyard Band’s Anwan Glover.

Order Issue 37: The DC Issue here.

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Hat tip to Idolator.

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Check out locals Face Accidents (think Pixies, Stooges) at Velvet Lounge with Spider Bags, Golden Boys, and The Antlers. 9 p.m.; $8; 21+

If you need a folk-rock fix go to the Black Cat tonight for Langhorne Slim (pictured) and the Heartless Bastards. 8 p.m.; $13; all-ages.

Willing to drop 20 bones on French Euro-pop? Then check out Yelle at the 9:30 Club. 10 p.m.; $20; all-ages.

Berklee-trained neo-psychedelic rockers Apollo Sunshine play tonight at DC9 before heading to London for a European tour. Their sound is a throwback to ‘60s-era underground pop/rock, combining big fuzz with eclectic orchestration. Their songs swell with wah-wah and bounce with heavy echo and break into bouts of chaos, blending the Violent Femmes and the Kinks—a refreshing change for a moment saturated with formulaic indie dance bands. As Sam Cohen recently told Paste: “We were much more imagining things, considering all possibilities, and that led to, ‘you know what’d be great here is a whole string section, or a bunch of horns,’ and just going for it and indulging in every far-out idea we had.”

The show starts at 9 p.m.; tickets are $12.