Brightest Young Things and Listen Local First team up every week to bring you the list of shows you should definitely attend.
Monday, April 21
Boy George @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: (Seriously, if I have to describe why this is recommended, you need to go find yourself a life.)
Dan Croll, Panama Wedding @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: “electro boy with links to the folkie scene”
The 9 Songwriter Series @ Jammin Java
RiYL: Garber Family Benefit Show
Bastard Cult, Pure Disgust, The Sniffs @ Smash! Records
RiYL: DCHC and hardcore from Texas
Tuesday, April 22
Christina Perri, Birdy @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: aw, defiant break-up songs
Taking Back Sunday, The Used @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: two bands that used to be really good and in reality, I just forget that they’ve changed to be worse
Robbie Fulks @ Jammin Java
RiYL: Jon Langford, Kelly Hogan, Neko Case
Wednesday, April 23
Tech N9ne, Freddie Gibbs @ Howard Theatre
RiYL: Hopsin, Yelawolf, Madlib
Avers, The Jackfields, The Beanstalk Library @ Black Cat
RiYL: bands declared as DC Band of the Month by The Deli
Pree, Native America, The Sea Life @ The Dunes
RiYL: solid electric folk
 Thursday, April 24
DDM, RA the MC, Sheila D Yeah @ W Hotel
RiYL: BYT Super Sampler musicians
Riff Raff @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RiYL: people who went on dates with Katy Perry, rappers I can’t take seriously, Spring Breakers, spring break
Galantis @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: Miike Snow, Syle of Eye
EMA, Downtown Boys @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RiYL: “taking the chaos and angst of the modern age and making it relatable”
Frankie Cosmos, Aaron Maine, Spoonboy, Foozle, Two Inch Astronaut @ CD Cellar
RiYL: shows in record stores in the suburbs
Friday, April 25
Ludacris @ Patriot Center
RiYL: Fast 2 Furious, Crash, Hustle & Flow, that rooster from that video
Kix, Extreme, Lita Ford, Winger @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
RiYL: M3 Rock Festival
Punk Rock Karaoke @ Black Cat
RiYL: HIPS benefit show
Rebecca vs. Mexico, Real Clothes backed by EMMA, The Duskwhales, Whitman @ Studio V Recording
RiYL: Fest Too Benefit Show
Saturday, April 26
5th Annual Kingman Island Folk & Bluegrass Festival presented by Whole Foods Market @ Kingman Island Park
RiYL: bluegrass music, DC food trucks; Sierra Nevada beer; games of chance in the Whole Foods Market midway; kayak paddling, rock climbing and outdoor skill classes with REI; bike giveaway and stunt course with BicycleSPACE; organic kombucha from Barefoot Bucha; children’s stage and family activities tent with Boogie Babes
Alabama Shakes @ Â 9:30 Club
RiYL: stories of bands that start in high school psychology classes
Tesla, Night Ranger, Sebastian Bach, Queensryche, Slaugher, Stryper, LA Guns, Jack Russell’s Great White, Keel, Autograph, Jake E. Lee’s Red Dragon Cartel, Femme Fatale, John Corabi, Heaven’s Edge @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
RiYL: M3 Rock Festival
Perfect Pussy, Yamantaka, Sonic Titan, Green Dreams, Golden Looks @ DC9
RiYL: band “that plays hard AND plays even harder.”
Lo Fang, Kate Berlant @ Sixth & I
RiYL: Matthew Hemerlein, Seaton Smith
Zombie Zombie, Deathfix, Young Rapids, Heavy Breathing, DJ Name Names (Ian Svenonius) @ Comet Ping Pong
RiYL: shows at Comet Ping Pong partially organized by the French Embassy
Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys @ The Hamilton
RiYL: Springsteen but better
Beasts of No Nation, Supreme Commander, Enemy Insects @ BDU House
RiYL: Fest Too Benefit Show
Sunday, April 27
M.I.A., A$AP Ferg @ Echo Stage
RiYL: being about “about truth and lies, freedom of speech and the struggle of media”
Better Than Ezra, Jon McLaughlin @ 9:30 Club
RiYL: starting out by touring the Southern college circuit, being good, “Good”
Toadies, Supersuckers, Battleme @ Black Cat
RiYL: Rubberneck 20th Anniversary Tour
