MUSIC: Junior League’s Lissy Rosemont plays a solo show with just her banjo tonight in Black Cat‘s Backstage, along with singer-songwriters Stella Schindler and Rose. $8, 9 p.m.

READING: Attention AP U.S. History geeks: Laton McCartney will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson’s to talk about his new book, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. 7 p.m.

DANCE: Multi-talented hip-hop dance performer Kenichi Ebina, the first and only two-time grand champion in the history of Showtime at the Apollo (not to mention the only Japanese performer to win the honor), performs free at 6 p.m. tonight on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Part of the Japan! Culture + Hyperculture series.

MUSIC: Generally when bands reunite and tour without key members, we shudder in fear and pretend it never happened, but color us curious about tonight’s From The Jam show at the Birchmere. Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton, the two-thirds of The Jam not named Paul Weller, are touring with vocalist Russell Hastings and guitarist Dave Moore, and playing old classics like “In The City” and “Town Called Malice”. Weller disbanded the original group back in 1982 and has repeatedly said he will never reform the band, so tonight’s show will at the very least be a rare chance to hear these Mod classics played live. Tickets are $27.50. Doors at 6 p.m

MOVIE: Don’t forget about the AFI Silver Theatre’s Coen Brothers retrospective, which tonight features a rare screening of their first film, Blood Simple. M. Emmet Walsh’s understated performance as the sleazy, creepy detective is one of his finest. 9 p.m.

JAZZ: Feel like catching your fill of classic big band in the vein of Ellington and Basie? Check out Swing Shift at Blues Alley. The 8 p.m. set appears to be sold out, but tickets to the 10 p.m. set are $20 + $12.50 minimum/surcharge.

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