MONDAY
>> Were you out of town this weekend, wishing you were home soaking in the goodness that was the DAM! Festival? Fear not. Tonight there is one more show, and it happens to be the festival’s biggest. The chanteuse to give all other indie chanteuses a run for their money, Cat Power, is taking the 9:30 Club stage with the Dirty Delta Blues, and a little help from openers Childballads. $25 or your DAM! Festival pass will get you in (though only a limited number of pass holders will be granted entrance).
>> Norway’s SYME have made friends on the road of D.C.’s Middle Distance Runner, and are playing our fair city tonight at DC9.
>> We can’t go anywhere today without somebody telling us to check out San Francisco’s Birds & Batteries tonight at the Velvet Lounge. And it would be irresponsible of us to let that message stop with us. Their electro-folk is making fans all around the interwebs and hopefully, throughout D.C. tonight.
>> Before you pick one of the aforementioned shows to kick your week off with a bang, may we suggest that you head to the Barnes & Noble at 3040 M Street at 7:30 p.m. for a book signing with Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx. He’s promoting his new book, The Heroine Diaries and his charity, Running Wild in the Night. But really, I just wanted an excuse to share one of my all time favorite quotes from Tommy Lee (the musician and Pamela Anderson paramour, not DCist’s technical guru), during his experiences going back to college for a 2004 reality show:
September 1, 2004: fuck, dude. this place is wack. nobody knows how to party. like, today i meet these two dudes in the quad, and they seemed dope and they had trucker hats and they start telling me how they had this INSANE experience last night, and i’m like, “fuck yeah, boys, word me up.” so they tell me this lame-ass story about how they started drinking right after class, and then they smoked some weed, and then they went to this frat party and they ended up making out with two drunk girls at the same time, and then one of them got a hand job. i’m like, “are you kidding me? two girls for two guys? one time in ’87, nikki sixx and i shared six girls in 20 minutes, and two of them had pussies completely filled with uncut cocaine. AND we injected liquid vicodin into our lungs with syringes, AND we buried a policeman alive, AND we used dynamite to blow up a cow.” and this all went down BEFORE the show.
TUESDAY
>> The Experience Hendrix tour kicks off tonight at DAR Constitution Hall. Robert Randolph, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd will pay their respects to guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix, along with a host of other incredible musicians — including members of Hendrix’s original rhythm section and members of the Rolling Stones. Tickets are still available from Ticketmaster for $65.
>> So, The Hives are playing on Wednesday at the Black Cat. But that show’s sold out. But, as luck would have it, you have the opportunity to see then on Tuesday night, too! They’re opening for Maroon 5 at the Verizon Center. Before you jump to say anything snarky about Adam Levine & Co., just remember this. $40.50 – $50.50. 7:30 p.m.
>> If none of that is what you had in mind, and you want to spend your evening in a small club with some electro-indie love, head to the Rock & Roll Hotel for Austin’s Octopus Project and Shout Out Out Out Out. $10, 8:30 p.m.
