MONDAY >>Satisfy your cheese cravings as former American Idol star (and Richmond, VA native) Elliot Yamin plays the 9:30 Club, with the Last Goodnight and Josh Hoge. $25, Doors at 7 p.m. >>Australian pop singer Ben Lee -- he of the short-lived Bens and "Catch My Disease" moderate fame -- comes to Alexandria's Del Ray neighborhood to play the Birchmere. Joining him is are Cary Brothers. $19.50, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY >>Dinosaur Jr. just can't stop......

What does it take for a band to sell out the 9:30 Club on their first visit to DC? Maybe the fans were confused on the venue and thought it was the highly anticipated DCist-sponsored Unbuckled show actually held at DC9 last night. While that would have been nice, I think it was something else that brought in the droves of digital camera wielding suburbanites and city folk alike. It was something else they thirsted......