Photo by payal.jhaveri

MUSIC: This weather can’t be doing much for your energy levels, so let the fine fellows and ladies of Imperial China and Edie Sedgwick do that for you. Both bands have been featured in recent Three Stars pieces, and both would make a memorable night all their own. Imperial China trade in very energetic, noisy, percussion-driven rock that you’d be a fool not to dance to. And Edie Sedgwick plays sparse punk songs about pop icons with a video art component. Title Tracks also play, Black Cat backstage, 9 p.m., $8.

READING: Newsweek editor Jon Meacham is at Politics and Prose to read from and sign copies of American Lion, his new book about Andrew Jackson. Presidential history buffs, take note. 7 p.m.

MUSIC: What happens when a Sonic Youth loving record collector goes to Ghana and returns to the U.S. where he meets two Ghanaian musicians and others into African highlife dance music? They form a Chicago-based combo called the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International and do an Afro-pop cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle.” Hear their multicultural approach at 6 p.m. for free at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. (-Steve Kiviat)

THEATER: We liked Signature Theater’s reimagining of Les Miserables. It’s running now through January 25, and tickets are still available for tonight’s 7:30 p.m. show for $75-$83.