Brightest Young Things and Listen Local First team up every week to bring you the list of shows you should definitely attend.
Monday, March 17
Swearin’, Title Tracks, Beach Week @ Black Cat
RiYL: listening to good music at good shows at Black Cat Backstage
Anthony Pirog @ Galaxy Hut
RiYL: ambient experimental St. Patty’s Day
RiYL: Alchemical Records St Patrick’s Madness
Tuesday, March 18
The Doozies @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: “chill burger music groups”
Greys, The Fordists @ DC9
RiYL: being gray
Jack Wright/Andrew Drury/Patrick Crossland :: Lg Saxophone Ensemble :: Double Date @ Union Arts
RiYL: more saxophones than you can count
Wednesday, March 19
Typhoon, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Wild Ones @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: bands whose only Facebook description is “death affirming”
Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red, We Came as Romans, Born of Osiris, Crown the Empire @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: ripping your skinny black pants like a teenage girl, screamo metalcore bro
Arborea, Marian McLaughlin, Anthony Pirog @ The Dunes
RiYL: posters that are hard to read
High Waisted, Fire & the Wheel @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: bands “backed by three long haired hunks”
The Queens – Maimouna Youssef, Tamika Love Jones, Violet Marley @ Anacostia Arts Center [1231 Good Hope Rd SE, WDC]
RiYL: people who have done Lorde covers
Imarhan Timbuktu @ Bossa Lounge
RiYL: music from Northern Mali for $5
Washington Women in Jazz Festival Mary Halvorson, Allison Miller, Sarah Hughes, Jaimie Branch, Karine Chapdelaine, Amy K Bormet @ Union Arts DC
RiYL: Women in Jazz festival nights. (More shows from the Washington Women in Jazz Festival can be found here.)
Thursday, March 20
Cut Copy @ echostage
RiYL: knowing things get worse before they get better
End Crimes, Thee Lolitas, DJs Baby Alcatraz, Mad Squirrel, Collin @ Black Cat
RiYL: benefit for the Travis Jackson Memorial Fund
Rac, Prides, Speak @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: musicians who failed music theory in college
Friday, March 21
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: having no actual ties to NASCAR
The Pizza Underground @ Black Cat
RiYL: pizza, Macauley Culkin, Hole in the Sky’s _ARTSHOW05: The Pizza Factory
The Colourist, Night Terrors of 1927, The Wind & The Wave @ U St Music Hall
RiYL: finding people in underused warehouses
Yonatan Gat (ex-Monotonix) @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: fuzzy guitars and worldly drums
Gangstagrass w/ The Walkaways and Wes Tucker & The Skillets @ Artisphere
RiYL: “foot stompin’ knee slappin’ butt shakin’ good times”
BIG Something, B Side Shuffle @ Gypsy Sally’s
RiYL: funk and wailing saxes
Saturday, March 22
Aer, RDGLDGRN @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: taking photos of photos of people taking photos
Drive-By Truckers, Blitzen Trapper @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: rowdy high-concept music
Loud Boyz, True Head, LURVE, Dealbreaker @ DC9
RiYL: drinking beer in laundromats
Dum Dum Girls @ Black Cat
RiYL: cute girls with leather jackets and great hooks
Lydia, Hrvrd, Golden Sun @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: ambient indie music
National ShamrockFest 2014 @ RFK Stadium Festival Grounds
RiYL: Dropkick Murphys, Black 47, Carbon Leaf, The Fighting Jamesons, Kilmaine Saints, Gaelic Mishap, Gobshites, Dublin 5, the Rockets, White Ford Bronco, Go GO Gadjet, Icewagon Flu, Redline Addiction, plus DJs Chris Styles, Dave Russell (Flipside), Freezie, Pat Premier, Neekola, Lil Fos’, DJ Flow, 2NUTZ, Rene, Clinton Matthews, Brad Piff
Sly 45 @ Acre 121
RiYL: cover bands
ilyAIMY, The Honest Mistakes @ The GallAerie
RiYL: acoustic grunge
Sunday, March 23
Drive-By Truckers, Blitzen Trapper @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: second night of Drive-By Truckers
Holly Hunt (ex-Floor), Hollow Leg, Paranoid Minds, Javla, Public Suicide @ The Dougout
RiYL: walls of amps
ShowPony, Lilac Daze, Pendrifter, Empty Vessels @ CD Cellar
RiYL: donating money to bands so they come back
