D.C.’s favorite sons The Dismemberment Plan have reunited and will play a series of highly-anticipated concerts this weekend. To mark the occasion, we’ve asked members of our staff to pick their favorite Dismemberment Plan tune and write a post about it. Today: music critic Mehan Jayasuriya on “The Other Side.” Check out the rest of the series here.

Unlike most Dismemberment Plan fans, my introduction to the band wasn’t that masterpiece of mid-twenties malaise, Emergency & I, but rather, its aptly-titled follow up, Change.

Whether turning a showcase set at South by Southwest into a massive game of bingo or using a discarded water bottle as a prop onstage at the Black Cat, The Blow‘s Khaela Maricich has always had a flair for the theatrical. So it surprised exactly no one when she veered even further into performance-art territory last year, tailoring her sets to fit into an overarching, conceptual narrative. Returning to the Black Cat last night for the first time in three years, Maricich opened her performance by explaining that she had been tapped to co-write songs with an unnamed celebrity, widely understood to be Lindsay Lohan. According to Maricich’s fictional account, the songs that she was about to perform were all culled from Lohan’s scrapped third LP.

Whether turning a showcase set at South by Southwest into a massive game of bingo or using a discarded water bottle as a prop onstage at the Black Cat, The Blow‘s Khaela Maricich has always had a flair for the theatrical. So it surprised exactly no one when she veered even further into performance-art territory last year, tailoring her sets to fit into an overarching, conceptual narrative. Returning to the Black Cat last night for the first time in three years, Maricich opened her performance by explaining that she had been tapped to co-write songs with an unnamed celebrity, widely understood to be Lindsay Lohan. According to Maricich’s fictional account, the songs that she was about to perform were all culled from Lohan’s scrapped third LP.

Strange though it may seem, the jury is still out on the Pixies’ live show. For every fan out there who insists that the band’s live sets are life-changing, you’ll find another who asserts that the Pixies are shoddy performers and always were. Part of the problem is that at this point, the band’s considerable legacy weighs heavily in any discussion of its merits, inviting revision from those who witnessed the Pixies in their heyday….

Strange though it may seem, the jury is still out on the Pixies’ live show. For every fan out there who insists that the band’s live sets are life-changing, you’ll find another who asserts that the Pixies are shoddy performers and always were. Part of the problem is that at this point, the band’s considerable legacy weighs heavily in any discussion of its merits, inviting revision from those who witnessed the Pixies in their heyday….

Max Tundra (Thursday at the Black Cat) | Photo by Mehan Jayasuriya MONDAY >> Made famous by their star turn in the 2007 film Once, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, better known as the Swell Season, have been charming audiences around the world with their trans-European folk fusion ever since. Tonight they’ll stop by the 9:30 Club with Doveman. Sold out, 7 p.m. >> Quirky Australian singer-songwriter and former Decoder Ring vocalist Lenka will…

These Arms Are Snakes MONDAY >> Atlanta four-piece The Coathangers will bring their sassy, lighthearted garage-pop tunes to the Black Cat tonight. Singing along is very much encouraged. With Thee Lexington Arrows and Foul Swoops, $10, 8:30 p.m. TUESDAY >> DCist has rarely been disappointed by Seattle post-hardcore stalwarts These Arms Are Snakes, so we’d wager that chances are pretty good that the band will tear the roof off of DC9 tonight. With DD/MM/YYYY…

Pree plays Fort Reno on Monday. MONDAY: >> Folky balladeers and three stars alums Pree make tonight’s Fort Reno show easy to recommend. Le Loup fans in particular should take note: while May Tabol’s latest project occupies a different niche in the indie-folk spectrum, her songs are still some of the most distinctive you’ll find in the District today. With North America and Stoney Lonesome, 7:15 p.m., Free. >> While not a show, per…

It’s not often that, on your way into a punk rock show, you have to carefully skirt around the band members, for fear of interrupting their ping-pong match. Or that, while waiting for the bands to finish setting up, you join a roomful of families in a rendition of “Happy Birthday,” directed at a beaming girl seated in front of an ice cream sundae. Then again, Comet Ping Pong, the noted upper Northwest pizza parlor/ping…

It’s not often that, on your way into a punk rock show, you have to carefully skirt around the band members, for fear of interrupting their ping-pong match. Or that, while waiting for the bands to finish setting up, you join a roomful of families in a rendition of “Happy Birthday,” directed at a beaming girl seated in front of an ice cream sundae. Then again, Comet Ping Pong, the noted upper Northwest pizza parlor/ping…