MONDAY
>> Three Stars alums The Chance and J. Forté + the Secret Pop Band, D.C.’s favorite lofi power-poppers, are playing a great double-bill (bothThree Stars veterans) at the Black Cat Backstage. 9 p.m. $6.
TUESDAY
>> Yet another revival of West Side Story comes to Wolf Trap and stays there until Sunday. Apparently it’s the 50th anniversary. 8 p.m. with matinée shows at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. $18-68.
WEDNESDAY
>> The Rock and Roll Hotel features the world’s first deaf hip-hop group, Helix Boyz, from nearby Gallaudet University. Members Prince Darius and Sho Roc bring their energetic, “friendly-fun” stylings to the RnR. Doors at 8 p.m., $10.
>> Three Stars alum and former Monopoli front manAlfonso Velez joins in on Ali Eskandarian‘s August residency at the Red and the Black. Doors at 9 p.m. $8.
THURSDAY
>> Tres Chicas, a poorly named, but quite talented North Carolina roots trio featuring former Whiskeytown member Caitlin Cary, come to Arlington and the Iota. Their last release, Red, Bloom, and the Ordinary Girl, came out in May 2006 and effectively moved the threesome out of “side project” status into full-fledged group-dom. 9 p.m. $12.
>> NYC’s Beat the Devil, who the Village Voice describe as “Billie Holiday-era jazz and blues and old black spirituals with folk and garage rock to come off sounding something like CocoRosie on crystal meth wrestling with Belle and Sebastian and the White Stripes,” are hosting a CD release party at the Red and the Black with Brandon Butler and Revival. Doors 9 p.m. $8.
