As the warmer technically-spring-but-still-cold-as-hell days arrive, so does a slew of festivals and events. Marking its fourth year, D.C.’s Six Points Music Festival kicks off this week. If the schedule and general planning approach this year are any indicatoin, it looks to be a much more cohesive and promising event than it has been in the past. The young festival has grown from a no-name event looking to champion the local music, to finding its legs by working with several local venues, adding information panels, and inviting some out-of-towners to join in the fun. Here’s DCist’s take on this year’s lineup — well, at least the parts we’ve gotten familiar with in the past and have some archived wisdome to share with you. As far as what we’re looking forward to now — we’ll get to that later.

Friday, 4/13 at RNR Bar & Lounge
It’s an all-local lineup at (the somewhat strange choice of venue) RNR this Friday as our first ever Three Stars band, Death By Sexy, headlines. We’re guessing (hoping?) RNR is going to tell their female bartenders that no dancing on the bar top will be required during the festival. Death By Sexy got some very sweet praise from DCist Ryan way back in the fall of ’05: “Death By Sexy reminded us that it’s actually a good thing to have a silly, fun time at a show and that neither the band or the audience should always take themselves so seriously. God bless ’em for it.” As far as The Beanstalk Library, The Hall Monitors and Convertible Jennifers are concerned, we haven’t seen them yet, but are starting to think that we should — based on the sheer number of beer-in-hand, “ohmygodthey’resogood!”s we’ve heard.