MONDAY
>> Start out this lovely spring week right by taking in local group Deleted Scenes (***) and their particular brand of you-name-it-they’ve-play-it-surf/rockabilly/garage/punk rock at the Red and the Black. Hero Cycle, Hot Lava and Paper Airplanes open. $8, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY
>> Quirky and fantastical sister-duo CocoRosie play the Rock and Roll Hotel. One half of the duo sings and plays guitar and flute, while the other sings and covers percussion (“rattles things, makes things squeak, shakes a gold chain belt” etc.). Their latest endevour The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn is a concept album which “follows CocoRosie and their crew of miscreants through the Mechanical Forest of Feelings.” $15 in advance, $18 at the door. 9 p.m.. According to the Rock and Roll Hotel website the show has, in fact, been cancelled (apparently due to some legal trouble); they tell us to stay tuned for refund information.
>> British four-some The Clientele may have been around since 1997, but their music harkens back to 1960’s pop-psych and surrealist literature. While we don’t make too much of the fact that one of their songs was featured in Keanu Reeve’s movie The Lake House, we do take note that their album God Save the Clientele will be released the day of this show — so its bound to be a great performance. The Ladybug Transistor (how can you not love this name?) and The Positions open. $13, Black Cat mainstage, 8 p.m.
WEDNEDSAY
>> The Rock and Roll Hotel brings you a night of accessible and fun rock with a trio of “C” named bands. Headliners Glasgow popsters The Cinematics bring us “melodic guitar music of the emotional variety.” Opening for them are Chicago-based The Changes and locals Cedars. $8 in advance, $10 at the door. 9 p.m.
>>Air may be a French duo known throughout the world for their sophisticated yet playful lounge-pop-house music, but D.C. can at least claim their song “Cherry Blossom Girl” as our own. Check them out at the 9:30 club, and hope that some of the landings upstairs are open for some intense lounging/spacing out — their latest endeavor Pocket Symphony returns to the more atmospheric stylings of their first album, Moon Safari, with less of the pop influences of their more recent albums. Kate Havnevik opens. $40, 7 p.m. doors.
