The Walkmen are at the 9:30 Club on Tuesday. MONDAY
>> Soulsavers come off sounding like a Mark Kozelek project with more elaborate instrumentation, but adding husky voiced troubadour Mark Lanegan gives them an added dimension of weight and darkness. Experience their pathos at the Rock and Roll Hotel. Also Jonneine Zapata and Red Ghost. 8 p.m., $18.
>> It’s hard to put a finger on what makes the Swedes inherently cuter than their American and British counterparts. Their over-perfect English? Their storied history of pop royalty? Their complete and utter disregard for what genres may or may not have gone out of style? One such group, The Sounds, a new-wave indebted quartet, will be at the 9:30 Club tonight, along with Foxy Shazam, Viking, and Jen Lasher. 7 p.m., $25.
>> Husband and wife duo Fuzz and Carrie anchor the gypsy-inspired pop of Caravan of Thieves. There’s high energy harmonies, virtuoso violin playing and non-standard folk to be found at Iota at 8:30 p.m., $10.
>> Unintentional folkies The Cave Singers and Jagjaguwar duo Lightning Dust will be hitting the Black Cat tonight with Birdlips, an ambient Americana-inspired duo from Charlottesville who impressed us when we saw them open for Delta Spirit. 8:30 p.m., $12
TUESDAY
>> Most of today’s indie heavyweights (see White Rabbits, Vampire Weekend, etc.) owe a great deal of debt to Brooklyn by way of Philly outfit The Walkmen. Their unflappably cool percussion amid heart wrenching lines like “Can’t you hear me? I’m bleeding on the wall,” have made them one of the most copied bands of the decade. Here We Go Magic, who we interviewed back in June, will be opening this 9:30 Club show. $15, 7 p.m.
>> Honestly, we could spend the entire Weekly Music Agenda talking about the Sonic Circuits festival, which kicks off its six days of experimental, noisy and avant-garde music tonight at the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at UMd.. But we aren’t, because we’ll be giving you a full preview of the event tomorrow. Tuesday night’s event is free and starts at 7 p.m.
>> There’s a certain suspension of disbelief necessary when listening to actress turned musician Juliette Lewis since her gaudy outfits and Runaways-indebted riffs seem to pay more homage to rock ‘n’ roll clichés than to establishing her as a worthwhile artist. But she did tour with Cat Power and enlist Mars Volta axe man Omar Rodriguez-Lopes in the production of her newest record, so maybe there’s something we’re missing. The Ettes are opening this show at the Rock and Roll Hotel. 8 p.m., $16/$18.
WEDNESDAY
>> Yes, Hamburg’s industrial rock road warriors, KMFDM, are still around (still around, again?) and they’ll be at the 9:30 Club. $25, 7 p.m.
>> Two of D.C.’s favorite exports will be playing with their current outfits. Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Weird War) and his latest project, Chain and the Gang, and Mary Timony’s newish band, Soft Power, will be hitting the Black Cat Backstage together. $10, 9 p.m.
