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MUSIC: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are back again at DC9 for their latest residency performance. This one’s sold-out, too, but check with Craig. With Pwrfl Power, doors 8 p.m.

READING: If anybody’s got a secret plan for capturing Bin Laden, it’s this guy: Bruce Riedel, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and a former CIA officer, is at Politics and Prose to discuss his new book, The Search for Al-Qaeda. 7 p.m.

MUSIC: Alt-country fans will be well served tonight by Boston’s Girls Guns and Glory, who will perform with locals the Highballers at The Red and the Black. Doors 9 p.m., $8.

MOVIE: A pretty impressive panel will be on hand at the AFI Silver tonight for a discussion following a screening of Robb Moss and Peter Galison’s hot documentary, Secrecy. The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, explores the strange world of government secrecy and how information actually ends up being “classified.” Moss and Galison will both be on hand for the after-film discussion, along with former NSA agent Mike Levin, Director of the National Security Archive at GWU Tom Blanton, and ACLU attorney Ben Wizner. Film starts at 7 p.m., with the panel immediately following.

MUSIC: Baritone Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester perform German and American standards from the 1920s and ’30s at the Lisner Auditorium tonight. $20-$35, 8 p.m.