MONDAY
>>As previously reported, Henry Rollins is sold out at the Birchmere. Check out our interview with him here. And then take your chances with the scalpers.

>>Are The Who really The Who without Keith Moon and John Entwhistle? Endless Wire came out a full two years ago to mixed reviews, but according to most reports Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend soldier on admirably with a replacement rhythm section (including Ringo’s son Zack Starkey on drums). Oh, and what’s that song about “meeting the new boss, same as the old boss” and “not getting fooled again”? Seems an appropriate a time as any. Verizon Center. $55-205, pretty good deal on Craigs List here, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY
>>Can we assume that Deerhunter, despite their Vietnam-film-referencing name, are probably not voting for John McCain? I feel safe in that assumption. But a better question — Dayton, Ohio’s Times New Viking may hail from a battleground state, but are they real Americans? In a perfect world, spazzy pop tunes recorded with little to no fidelity would be enough to pass a citizenship test. Celebrate or commiserate with them and Knyfe Hyts at the Black Cat. $13/15, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY
>> Though they’ve mellowed a bit in recent years, Chicago four-piece Pelican is still very much a metal band–or at least they were the last time we caught them at the Black Cat. If heavy, downtuned guitars, spiraling solos and 20-minute plus epics sound like your cup of tea, you’ll want to be sure not to miss the band’s return to the Cat on Wednesday night, with Kayo Dot and former Cave-In frontman Stephen Brodsky. $12, 8 p.m.

>>Since the ’90s Otis Taylor has been playing blues guitar in ways that rarely resemble the genre’s stereotypical 12 bar format. Now on his latest cd “Recapturing the Banjo,” he and some fellow black musicians show that instrument’s African and African-American roots. He and his band will be at Blues Alley for two shows.

>>More Swedes are coming. Fredrik, the Swedish indie-folk-pop off shoot of electro-poppers LK will be at DC9 tonight.

THURSDAY
>>British blues doesn’t die, it just stays the same. But Holly Golightly’s been trafficking in a pretty entertaining version of it for nigh on fifteen years now, splashing in good doses of rockabilly and punk and pallin’ around with the likes of Billy Childish and the White Stripes along the way. She’s playing the Iota Club in Arlington with her band, The Broke Offs, in support of their latest effort, Dirt Don’t Hurt. $15, Doors at 9 p.m.