FRIDAY:
>> There ain’t nothin’ remotely unfun about hanging out with North Carolina’s trailer park heroes, Southern Culture On The Skids, who will be playing the 9:30 Club — or as it’s more pretentiously known, “Nightclub 9:30” — tonight with Jumpin’ Jupiter. If you’re good enough to treat SCOTS to some fried chicken, maybe they’ll indulge us locals with a Link Wray cover or two. $15, doors at 9 p.m. (Jason Linkins)
>> Do your dance moves look more like an epileptic fit? Well, finally you’ll have a chance to show them off. Disco-punk band, !!! (pronounced chk-chk-chk) will be dropping their spastic dance music tonight at the Black Cat. With Lansing-Dreiden and Mountain High, $13, 9:30 p.m. (Genevieve Smith)
>> It’s not one of Tchaikovsky’s better-known operas, but Opera Bel Cantanti has again performed its mission well by staging the composer’s fine one-act opera Iolanta. They first performed it last month, when the Post’s reviewer loved it, and have brought it back for a couple encore performances. Having seen it at the Lyceum on Wednesday, I recommend you take in the last performance tonight at La Maison Française for a lovely 75 minutes of musical drama. 7:30 p.m., $25. (Charles Downey)
>> According to sources in the know, tonight’s Bethesda Painting Awards finals will be rife with free sangria. Oh yeah, and a fantastic chance to catch up on some of the last year’s most compelling Bethesda-based gallery shows, including work by Andrew Wodzianski and Scott Hutchinson.
