GO TO THESE SHOWS THIS WEEK.

Monday

Dominic Fragman, The Lost Civilizations @ The Dew Drop Inn

RiYL: Buddy Rich, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis

Ginkgoa @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

RiYL: Les Rita Mitsouko, Pink Martini

Golden Gate Wingmen @ The Hamilton

RiYL: improvisational jam

Gringo Star @ DC9

RiYL: The Orwells, Young Rival

Tuesday

Big Hush, Romantic States, Hothead, Halfsour @ Bathtub Republic

RiYL: Pygmy Lush, Beach Slang

Sumac, Jaye Jayle, nordra @ DC9

RiYL: Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer

Wednesday

Beat Connection, Kodak to Graph @ DC9

RiYL: Keep Shelly In Athens, Blackbird Blackbird

Christian Lopez Band, Silver Line Station @ Gypsy Sally’s

RiYL: “the soul of a 65-year-old Appalachian mountain musician”

Curtis Salgado, Selwyn Birchwood @ The Hamilton

RiYL: James Cotton, Robert Cray

Tempest @ Songbyrd Music House & Record Café

RiYL: celtic rock

5Quad, Loren Gray, Duhitzmark, Flamingeos @ Fillmore Silver Spring

RiYL: Lukas Graham

Uke Fest @ Strathmore

RiYL: Tobias Elof, Jeff Peterson, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, The Strathmore Ukulele Orchestra

Thursday

Barbra Streisand @ Verizon Center

RiYL: you should know Barbra Streisand

Donavon Frankenreiter, Zach Heckendorf @ The Hamilton

RiYL: Jack Johnson, Fastball

Drug Church, Donovan Wolvington @ DC9

RiYL: End of A Year, Self Defense Family

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat @ Comet Ping Pong

RiYL: “elemental, stripped-down postpunk”

Elena & Los Fulanos, Maryjo Mattea & A Pile of Dudes, Bellwether Bayou @ Black Cat

RiYL: “bilingual folk rock”

Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion @ Jiffy Lube Live 

RiYL: Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley

Friday

Drake, Future @ Verizon Center

RiYL: you know Drake, Degrassi: The Next Generation

 The Julie Ruin, Olivia Neutron-John, Sneaks @ Black Cat

RiYL: Bikini Kill, Le Tigre

Animal Liberation Orchestra, The Hip Abduction @ The Hamilton

RiYL: G. Love & Special Sauce, The String Cheese Incident

The Beanstalk Library, The Fire Tonight, The NRIs @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: Big Star, Teenage Fanclub

Big Sam’s Funky Nation @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: Trombone Shorty, Dr. John

Loud Boyz, Pie Face Girls @ Comet Ping Pong

RiYL: we’ve covered Loud Boyz enough that you should know Loud Boyz

Prophets of Rage, AWOLNATION @ EagleBank Arena

RiYL: “Make America Rage Again,” Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill

Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rusted Root, Daisie Ghost Flower @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: Bush, Counting Crows

 Saturday

Ira Glass @ Wolf Trap Filene Center

RiYL: This American Life, Bentzen Ball 2013

Black Masala, M.H. & His Orchestra, The Shadow Girl Sound Collective @ Black Cat

RiYL: Congo Sanchez

Dru Hill @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: Boyz II Men, Blackstreet

Prinze George, Higher Education @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: CHRVCHES

Train, Andy Grammer @ Merriweather Post Pavilion

RiYL: Maroon 5, The Script

Sunday

The Bangles, Cardiac @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: The Go-Go’s, The Runaways

Black Sabbath, Rival Sons @ Jiffy Lube Live

RiYL: Metallica, Iron Maiden

Ex Hex, Flasher, Simon Doom @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: Rock & Roll Hotel 10 Year Anniversary Celebration