TUESDAY
>>If you like your rock hard, Rock and Roll Hotel is the place to be tonight. Burning Brides, who’ve been building a fanbase for nearly a decade now on solid riffing and opening slots with big names like A Perfect Circle and Queens of the Stone Age. Locals Wooly Mammoth (pictured) open, along with The Exponentials 8 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door.
>> Classic ’80s college radio staples Hoodoo Gurus reunited back in 2004, and just kept on going. They’ll be playing tunes from a career spanning over 25 years tonight at the Black Cat with The Fake Accents and Julie Ocean. 8 p.m., $20.
WEDNESDAY
>> Gimme indie rock! Everyone loves The National. One of indie rock’s biggest acts at the moment brings their acclaimed show to the 9:30 Club. Joining the boys from Brooklyn are Raleigh’s The Rosebuds & Doveman. The entire show will be terribly heartfelt, heartachey, and heartstring-tugging, and all that touchy-feely stuff the indie kids love. If you miss it Wednesday, the program will repeat itself on Thursday. $18
>> He only wants to be with you. He said so, I remember. That may have been over a decade ago, but Darius Rucker hasn’t changed his tune, and Hootie & the Blowfish are still around, and not just on a VH1 ’90s retrospective show. In fact, they play out in Vienna every year these days. If this was your pleasure, guilty or otherwise, Wolftrap has the nostalgia trip you ordered up. Patrick Davis opens. And all snark aside, for those who are headed to the show, the band requests you bring school supplies from the list on Wolf Trap’s website, which will be redistributed to students in need at area schools. 8 p.m., $28-$40
