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MUSIC: Bottles/Cans have earned headliner status after countless opening gigs. They’ll be on the Black Cat‘s backstage, with Hello Society and The Ivorys. $8, 8:30 p.m.

READING: Sonic Youth lead singer Thurston Moore and Byron Coley are at The Corcoran to read from and discuss No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980. For the book, Moore and Coley selected 150 images and compiled hundreds of hours of previously unpublished personal interviews with the architects of the “No Wave” movement, from James Chance to Lydia Lunch to Glenn Branca. 7 p.m., $22.

MUSIC: The Airborne Toxic Event are a bit of a mystery to us. They get tons of commercial radio play, and seem to have a lot of 14-year-old girls as fans. But they also took their name from a passage in White Noise, are made up of a bunch of Los Feliz-based cool kids, and are playing at DC9. Are they a scrappy indie band that’s about to be big, or a big band that’s having trouble selling tickets to shows? That song “Sometime Around Midnight” is pretty good. See for yourself tonight at 8:30 p.m., $10.

READING Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto, is reading at Politics and Prose at 7 p.m. to promote her latest novel, Run.

MUSIC: Go ahead. Spend the money to see George Michael this evening at the Verizon center. You know you want to. $55 to $250, 8 p.m.