Brightest Young Things and Chris Naoum of Listen Local first team up every week to bring you the list of shows you should definitely attend.
Monday, December 2
Vegas with Randolph (CD Release), Jamie & Steve (from “The Spongetones”), The GoAround @ Jammin’ Java
RiYL: music that’s been called the “thinking man’s party music”
Short Lives, The Mind Set @ Galaxy Hut
RiYL: fake Polaroids
Tuesday, December 3
Hadag Nahash @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: Chanukah
The Walking Sticks, Pleasure Curses, White Gold with Alex T of Paperhaus, Br’er @ The Dunes
RiYL: twins, laying in the grass
Alarms & Controls, Soccer Team, Talk It @ Black Cat
RiYL: getting CDs for going to shows
Bombino @ The Hamilton
RiYL: members of Ifoghas tribe
The Melodic, Vikesh Kapoor, Bird Courage @ IOTA
RiYL: Latin folk from London
Wednesday, December 4
Jagwar Ma, Fascinator @ U St Music Hall
RiYL: American Apparel
Holograms, TV Ghost @ DC9
RiYL: Stockholm
Intent, New Brigade, Unified, Zoom, Protester @ Casa Fiesta
RiYL: seeing five hardcore bands in two hours, DIY hardcore waffle house flyers
Megadeth, Fear Factory, Nonpoint @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: 80’s hair, trash metal, symphonies of destruction, hating Obama
Never Shout Never (the Xmas Tour), The Downtown Fiction (acoustic) @ Jammin’ Java
RiYL: people who have made Bryan of BryanStars cry
Thursday, December 5
Phantogram, Until The Ribbon Braks, Weeknight @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: bands who write and record in barns
The Walking Sticks @ DC9
RiYL: seeing the same band a second night at a different venue.
Blueheart Revival (featuring Bobby Thompson and Tommy Lepson) @ Gypsy Sally’s
RiYL: being “born out of the emotional desperation”
Hugh Cornwell, Dot Dash @ Black Cat
RiYL: British people, The Stranglers
Friday, December 6
NOFX @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: Fat Mike, punk
Dark Star Orchestra (continuing the Grateful Dead Experience) @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: Grateful Dead, but not
The Riverbreaks, Mission South, The Sea Life @ Black Cat
RiYL: songs written in a Costa Rican jungle
Thee Lolitas, Musicband (ex-Goons), The Brooklyn What, The Sniffs @ The Pinch
RiYL: donation-based shows
Skelliton, Equiknox, Color School @ Velvet Lounge
RiYL: French army, snakes
South Rail @ Acre 121
RiYL: hanging out on train tracks
Justin Trawick Trio @ The Hamilton
RiYL: playing under Christmas lights
Legs Like Tree Trunks, Cope Ascetic, The Raised By Wolves @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: feather boas and trombones
Here We Go Magic, Paperhaus @ Paperhaus
RiYL: birthday parties, Paperhaus because it’s their last DC show for awhile
Saturday, December 7
Dark Star Orchestra (continuing the Grateful Dead Experience) @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: another night of not Grateful Dead
Anthony Green (Circa Survive), Dave Davison (Maps & Atlases), Psychic Babble @ Ottobar
RiYL: Circa Survive
The Bottom Dollars, The Nuclears, The Mellish @ DC9
RiYL: bands CMJ names as “Professional Sonic Assassins”
Matthew E. White @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: people who say that they’re “Spacebomb”
Nervosas, Pygmy Lush, Priests, Dudes @ the Pinch
RiYL: punk and fried pickles
Vinny Vegas, Beauchene Skulls, Moniker, Bravenoise @ Velvet Lounge
RiYL: whales
Fire & the Wheel @ IOTA
RiYL: projections as part of your promo shots
The 9 Songwriter Series @ Black Cat
RiYL: seeing nine singers for $10
Black Masala @ Acre 121
RiYL: gypsy
Sunday, December 8
History Repeated, Sick Sick Birds, (Stop Worrying &) Love the Bomb @ Smash! Records
RiYL: Corn that has been prepared by Kyle Corn and the Baltimore Orioles because that’s what they like
JD Samson & MEN, Ex Hex, Coup Sauvage & the Snips (7″ release show), DJ Dean @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: electronic-feminist-punk
Max Bemis (Say Anything), Matt Pryor (the Get Up Kids / the New Amsterdams), Sherri DuPree Bemis (Eisley), Perma (Max Bemis & Sherri DuPree Bemis), Merriment @ Ottobar
RiYL: Say Anything, husbands and wives playing together
Rock-N-Shop @ Black Cat
RiYL: getting awesome punk Christmas presents, garage sales
Sinister Haze, Corsair, Genocide Pact @ The Pinch
RiYL: doom death metal
Moon Taxi, the Shack Band @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: Nashville, photos that cut people off
