MONDAY

>> Anthony Pirog’s (one of our recent Three Stars artists) many music outlets are coming together tonight at Iota. Head to Arlington’s cozy club to hear rock music from The Bang. With Le Loup. $10, 8:30 p.m.

>> Mark Mallman, Twin Cities veteran and spastic-rock-showman-turned-synth-pop-afficianado, plays DC9 with fellow Minneapolis rockers the Honeydogs in one of the week’s best bargains. 8 bucks gets you a whole lot of rock and probably some ringing eardrums too. 9 p.m.

>> Speaking of rock, there’s a pretty cool night of Rock-related book readings and author appearances at the Warehouse Theater. John Sellers, author of Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life (commentors, fire away!), will do some reading then is asking folks to ask questions and test his rockological knowledge. Glenn Dixon will be discussing the hidden pornographic subtexts of Christian Rock. Mike Lowery, the F.W. Thomas artist-in-residence, will be sharing his innermost thoughts as expressed in deceptively simple line drawings. Finally, host Adam Mazmanian talks about both the art and science of “rocking out.” $5, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

>> Alan Sparhawk apparently has mentally stablized enough to keep hitting the road and recording with Duluth slowcore trio Low (pictured). Swedish one-man band Loney, Dear (the city of Jonkoping’s answer to Peter Bjorn and John) take their pop out of the bedroom and into the 9:30 Club.

>> Cape Verde’s Lura and Brazil’s Vinicius Cantuária offer lush Portuguese tales from opposite sides of the pond, at Lisner. Do not arrive late; opener Cantuaria’s wistful bossa nova is arguably more striking than Lura’s morna meets European café pop. $15 to $35.

>> For those who were planning to check out The Hard Lessons at the Red and the Black tonight, be warned: the show has been moved to DC9, where the Detroit
garage-rockers will be sharing a bill with Three Stars alums The
Ambitions and The breakUps. $8, 9 p.m.