TUESDAY >>If you like your rock hard, Rock and Roll Hotel is the place to be tonight. Burning Brides, who've been building a fanbase for nearly a decade now on solid riffing and opening slots with big names like A Perfect Circle and Queens of the Stone Age. Locals Wooly Mammoth (pictured) open, along with The Exponentials 8 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door. >> Classic '80s college radio staples Hoodoo Gurus reunited back in 2004,... more ›

MONDAY >> Tom Kierein tells us that this is our last day of "comfortable humidity," before that familiar wet hot D.C. summer returns. Seize the day and head to Fort Reno to take in Wooly Mammoth, Len Bias and Polynation. 7:15 p.m., free. TUESDAY >> Leave it to Canada to fuse punk and folk. The Weakerthans @ the 9:30 Club, with The New Amsterdams and Raising the Fawn. 7:30 p.m., $14. >> Three Stars alums... more ›

FRIDAY: >> You just can't say the D.C. music scene doesn't care. Check out the 2-night Katrina's Piano Fund benefit concert at Black Cat, featuring a packed line-up of local acts. Friday's got Monopoli, the Routineers, the Washington Social Club, the Ambitions, Andy Zipf, and DJ Will Eastman. Saturday is Wooly Mammoth, The Whips, Owls and Crows, Edie Sedgwick, Rose, andDJ lil' e. $12 for one show, or maximize your band-to-dollar ratio and pay just... more ›