GO TO THESE SHOWS THIS WEEK.
Monday, November 3
Go Cozy, Perhaps, Two Inch Astronaut @ DC9
RIYL: locals, how drummer Ryan Witt doesn’t remember how many bands he’s in
TTNG, Emma Ruth Rudle, Mylets @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RIYL: bands who just shorted their name, This Towns Needs Guns, Minus the Bear meets The Smiths sound
Tuesday, November 4
Hozier, James Bay @ 9:30 Club
RIYL: young artists who played Sweetlife
Screaming Females @ Black Cat
RIYL: Marissa Paternoster screaming in your face
String Cheese Incident @ Lincoln Theatre
RIYL: bands who take nine years to release a new album
Walk the Moon @ U Street Music Hall
RIYL: bands who played at Catholic University last month, bands with mission statements
Wednesday, November 5
You, Me, Them, Everybody Live! @ The Wonderland Ballroom
RIYL: Sara Curtin
Joey Bada$$ @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RIYL: really tacky ways how to spell your name, $$ instead of an ‘S’
Paperhaus @ Bathtub Republic
RIYL: BYOB and helping touring bands
Pup, Typefighter, Chumped @ DC9
RIYL: the punk rock band, not a puppy, people who acknowledge “financial support” from the Canadian government
Syleena Johnson @ Howard Theatre
RIYL: Grammy-nominated artists, VIP reserved seating (but not exact seating) shows
Thursday, November 6
Parkay Quarts, People’s Drug @ DC9
RIYL: rock juggernauts
Eric Hutchinson @ 6th & I
RIYL: locals coming home, people who played a festival in Annapolis with The Flaming Lips
Circa Survive, Title Fight @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RIYL: seeing Anthony Green in a bigger space, wanting more room than their show at Rock & Roll Hotel
Friday, November 7
Anberlin @ Fillmore Silver Spring
RIYL: Anberlin because this is their final tour
Beach Fossils, The Sea Life, Baby Bry Bry @ Rock & Roll Hotel
RIYL: bands with lots of line up changes, DIIV
Kill Lincoln @ Black Cat
RIYL: local bands’ first time on Black Cat’s mainstage, that special moment for a local band, “Fuck you Alan”
Haerts, Pleasure Curses, ROAM DJs @ Former Spanish Ambassador’s Residence
RIYL: Fotoweek!
Secret Cities, Humble Fire @ Comet Ping Pong
RIYL: bands asking you if you’re pumped
Saturday, November 8
Fitz & the Tantrums, Big Data @ 9:30 Club
RIYL: openers with only one song, “Out of My League”
James Vincent McMorrow @ Lincoln Theatre
RIYL: albums called “We Don’t Eat”
Kimbra @ U Street Music Hall
RIYL: twenty-somethings winning a Grammy
Waxahatchee @ Howard Theatre
RIYL: Katie Crutchfield
Sunday, November 9
Dirty Heads @ 9:30 Club
RIYL: that one song on DC101 that plays all the time “My Sweet Summer”
Johnny Marr @ 9:30 Club
RIYL: Morrissey, The Smiths
Stevie Wonder @ Verizon Center
RIYL: music, honestly you should know why you should like Stevie Wonder
