Brightest Young Things and Listen Local First team up every week to bring you the list of shows you should definitely attend.
Monday, March 31
Grouplove, Ms Mr, Smallpools @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: the second of three sold-out shows
Cosmonauts @ Black Cat
RiYL: “equal parts by polo-shirts and MDMA”
The Plums, Chester Hawkins, Tag Cloud @ Galaxy Hut
RiYL: wondering what you’re about to see, “DEEPEST-tissue drone.”
RiYL: Thick as Blood since it’s their farewell tour
Tuesday, April 1
Grouplove, Ms Mr, Smallpools @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: their third consecutive night of sold-out 9:30 Club shows
Childish Gambino @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: Donald Glover
Goldfish @ U St Music Hall
RiYL: people who think they’re re-inventing the DJ, people who are difficult to Google
Wednesday, April 2
Real Estate, Pure X @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: cleaner, more well-rehearsed records, openers who also opened for Youth Lagoon at 9:30 Club
Protest the Hero, Battlecross, The Safety Fire, Intervals, Night Verses @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: bands who are supposedly “one of the most forward-thinking bands in the metal world today”
Johnny Stimson, Sturgill Simpson, Pleasure Curses @ Gypsy Sally’s
RiYL: Communion DC
Case Conrad, Mittenfields, King of Prussia, Girafftermath @ Velvet Lounge
RiYL: Swedish indie pop
W.C. Lindsay, Broken Gold @ Black Cat
RiYL: bands who describe themselves as “the Beastie Boys watching The Breakfast Club at Warped Tour.”
Thursday, April 3
Eisley, Merriment @ U St Music Hall
RiYL: tours that only consist of the same family
Dullard Aardvark @ Velvet Lounge
RiYL: Ramtin Arablouei’s electronic solo project
Dave Hause (of The Loved Ones), Northcote @ DC9
RiYL: believing the American dream is a broken promise
Skaters, Team Spirit @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: forming bands after meeting people in “a really fancy-ass house”
Thollem/Chase, Laughing Man, Dave Klinger @ Union Arts
RiYL: Brian Chase of Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Feedel Band @ Bossa Bistro
RiYL: Ethiopian Funk, Soul and Jazz
Friday, April 4
Kraftwerk @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: all the dance music from the last 30 years
Awthentik @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: album release shows
Elikeh, Alma Tropicalia, Backbeat Underground @ Black Cat
RiYL: bands with “no borders, exploring global themes and personal odysseys.”
PLOY, Beyond Modern @ Strathmore
RiYL: local DC electronic line ups I’m stoked for, new songs by PLOY
Silver Palms @ DC9
RiYL: bands who opened for The Orwells in February and were horrible.
Stranger in the Alps, Aaron Tinjum & the Tangents, The Low Bends @ Velvet Lounge
RiYL: DC Indie Folk
Uncalled4 Band @ Howard Theatre
RiYL: reunion shows
The Very Small, Bearshark @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: comparing bands to soufflés and slow-cooking
Saturday, April 5
Gramatik, Branx, Gibbz, Russ Liquid @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: “maturing from a curious kid to a world-class producer”
Grandmaster Flash, Jahsonic, DJ Detroyt @ U St Music Hall
RiYL: supposedly one of hip-hop’s greatest innovators
Jukebox the Ghost, Holychild @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: bands playing two sets a show of covers and originals
Rocket from the Crypt, Dar Sartain @ Black Cat
RiYL: RFTC
Tunde Olaniran and DJs rAt, Mother Shiester, Underdog @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: fundraising for Allied Media Conference
The Cowards Choir and Lauren Calve @ IOTA
RiYL: bands who got their photo taken by Bob Boilen
Cavale (album release show), Joy Cut, Pleasure Curses, Furniteur @ The Dunes
RiYL: shows featuring first albums and first shows
Sunday, April 6
Juicy J @ Howard Theatre
RiYL: what you saw in March
Shpongle: the Museum of Consciousness Tour @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: “explorations into the unclassifiable music frontiers”
Elsinore, Sons of Steve, Go Cozy @ DC9
RiYL: Midwestern pop music
Bandhouse Gigs presents A Tribute to George Harrison @ The Hamilton
RiYL: George Harrison
