Just like the Old Days, 9353 is gigging around town. Just like the Old Days, 9353 is making cool posters. Just like the Old Days, 9353 singer Bruce Miles Hellington is covering every available surface in said town with said posters. “9353 has never sounded better than it does at this moment! what’s that about?” Hellington says in an e-mail, adding in another that the dates on the poster are a little wonky: “the last one is cancelled and the next to the last one is iffy,” he says. Still, that’s at least three chances to catch the last shows in which 9353 will be “playing exclusively oldies” Hellington says. Below the jump, 9353’s new poster.
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Washington, D.C./Baltimore-area glitch-hop trio Food for Animals performs at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, with Gowanus Bay Funeral Marching Band and Snack Truck at the Velvet Lounge, 915 U St. NW. $6. (202) 462-3213. Tonight’s show is the first of a three-performance weekend celebrating the upcoming release of the band’s second debut full-length, Belly, which is to be released on the Baltimore-based HOSS Records label.

Not making an appearance at tonight’s CD release show, however, will be any actual copies of Belly. According to lead rapper Andrew Field-Pickering (aka Vulture Voltaire, aka Maximillion Dunbar), the discs are more than a month overdue from the manufacturing plant. “They should, humorously enough, get here the day after the release shows,” he says.

Go here for the Washington City Paper’s review of Belly.