Drive-By Truckers return to the 9:30 Club for another Friday-Saturday stand.

MONDAY
>> Folkie Justin Trawick wants to help you fight off your case of the Mondays with a solo acoustic set at IOTA. With Blues James Band. 8:30 p.m., $10.

>> Pennsylvania’s The Takeover U.K. “take the pop sensibility of the ’60s and marry it with Class of ’77 punk rock.” Heady words, Gentlemen! They’re at DC9 with The Crash Moderns and The Five One. 9 p.m., $8.

TUESDAY
>> Fresh on the heels of their just-released Love, Hate, and Then There’s You, garage rockers The Von Bondies are in town from Detroit “Rock” City to a make a loud and dirty noise. We’ve made enough jokes about frontman Jason Stollmeister losing that fight with Jack White by now, haven’t we? Live and let rock, Fellas. With Nico Vega and MHR. At Jammin’ Java. 8 p.m., $12.

>> Aliens? Oh, hells, yeah! James Cameron’s 1986 interplanetary bug-squashing epic is only one of the three or four best sequels ever, and a film with the rare distinction of operating in a wholly separate genre from its precursor (existential deep-space horror vs. Vietnam-on-some-backwater-planet sci-fi action). Sigourney Weaver’s fire-breathing turn as warrant officer Ellen Ripley got her a Best Actress Oscar nom, an almost unheard-of accolade for a performance in a genre film, Heath Ledger’s Joker nonwithstanding. Oh, wait. This is some band called Aliens. “Kick-ass nu-punk with a big rockin’ twist,” raves Toxic Pete. Well, that might be okay, too. Featuring Half Japanese (the band) drummer Rick Dreyfuss. With Cigarbox Planetarium and Spider Cake. DC9, 9:30 p.m., $6.