GO TO THESE SHOWS THIS WEEK.

Monday

Avers, The Can’t Tells, Wanted Man @ DC9

RiYL: Foo Fighters, Real Estate, and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

Bring Me the Horizon, ’68, Silver Snakes @ Fillmore Silver Spring

RiYL: Sleeping With Sirens, Warped Tour

Chris Isaak @ Birchmere

RiYL: Gardens

Comedy Bang! Bang! Live! @ Lincoln Theatre 

RiYL: Scott Aukerman, with guests Paul F Tompkins & Lauren Lapkus, Neil Campbell

Distant Cousins, Jonny Grave @ Sixth & I

RiYL: Criminal Minds

Lapsley, Morly @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: Halsey, Grimes

Old 97s, Heartless Bastards, BJ Barham (of American Aquarium) @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Wilco, Drive-By Truckers

The Spook School, Bad Moves, Lauren Denitzio @ Black Cat

RiYL: Camera Obscura

Tuesday

Animal Collective @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Panda Bear, Tame Impala

Animal Collective DJ Set, Avey Tare, Geologist @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: Animal Collective again

Babymetal @ Fillmore Silver Spring

RiYL: Ladybaby, Sakura Gakuin

The New Stew, The Soulphonics @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Corey Glover, Roosevelt Collier

Ought, Priests, Sneaks @ Black Cat 

RiYL: Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Plants & Animals, Wintersleep, The North Country @ DC9

RiYL: Wolf Parade, Acarde Fire

Wednesday

Albert Cummings @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Charlie Sexton

Bernhoft, The Shudderbugs, Jonny P @ U St Music Hall

RiYL: Maria Mena

Buckethead @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: Axl Rose

Crystal Fighters, Chela, Psymon Spine @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: Bloc Party

Default Handshake, Lou Talbot, Dogwoods @ Lamont Street Collective 

RiYL: “post cyborg sad girl pop”

Good Graeff, The Duskwhales @ DC9

RiYL: twins

Midnight Snack, Wylder @ Gypsy Sally’s

RiYL: their live Tiny Desk Content submission

New Madrid, Witch Coast @ Songbyrd Music House & Record Café

RiYL: the band not the city

Wild Nothing, Charlie Hilton @ Black Cat 

RiYL: The Smiths

 Thursday

A Day To Remember, State Champs, Guns Out at Sundown @ Fillmore Silver Spring

RiYL: Bring Me the Horizon

Day Wave, Color Palette @ DC9

RiYL: Blonde Redhead

Hop Along, Speedy Ortiz, Two Inch Astronaut @ Black Cat

RiYL: Woods

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, Light Beams, Sistr Mid9ight @ Comet Ping Pong

RiYL: Poison Ivy

Parquet Courts, B Boys @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Spoon, M83

Pentatonix, Us the Duo, AJ Lehrman @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

RiYL: Nota, Home Free

Sam Moss, Marian McLaughlin & Ethan Foote, Alex Tebeleff @ Upshur Street Books

RiYL: shows in book stores

Screaming Females, Aye Nako, Nox @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: Garbage, JEFF the Brotherhood

Titus Andronicus, La Sera @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Weezer, The Mountain Goats

X Ambassadors, Robert DeLong, Sara Hartman @ Echostage

RiYL: Imagine Dragons

Friday

Grimes, Tei Shi @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Brooke Candy, Lorde

The Kickback, Wild Love @ DC9

RiYL: Via Audio, Paradise Fears

Olivia Mancini, Fluffer, K Pasa USA @ Bathtub Republic’s New Location

RiYL: Walkabout EP

Penguin Prison, ASTR, Savoir Adore @ 9:30 Club (Late show – 10 PM)

RiYL: our interview with them in 2014

We Are Scientists, Prism Tats @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: Interpol

Saturday

4Ever Chuck feat. Chuck Brown Band with Sugar Bear & EU, Junk Yard Band @ Howard Theatre

Billy Connolly @ Warner Theatre

RiYL: our interview with Billy Connolly

The Kills, LA Witch @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: The Dead Weather

REACT Showcase 2016 @ St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church

RiYL: Mindset (last show ever), Praise, True Love, Give, Insist, True Identity, Keep It Clear, Break Away, Warxgames, Ancient Heads, Union of Faith, Free, Stuck Pigs

Sweetlife Festival: The 1975, Halsey, Flume, Grimes, PartyNextDoor, Blondie, Eagles of Death Metal, Mac DeMarco, Thundercat, Vince Staples, Shamir, Wolf Alice, DIIV, Prinze George @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

RiYL: salad festivals, using a coupon code “KALE” for BOGO tickets (it expires 5/11)

Sunday

Astronautalis, Ceschi & Factor Chandelier @ DC9

RIYL: P.O.S

The Avett Brothers, Brett Dennen @ Patriot Center

RiYL: Mumford & Sons

Cage the Elephant, Portugal. The Man, Broncho @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

RiYL: The Black Keys

Ozomatli, Big Tony, Trouble Funk @ Lincoln Theatre

RiYL: JusticeAid Concert Benefit for the CFSY (Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth) and NJDC (National Juvenile Defender Center)