The Cool Kids will play at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Tuesday.MONDAY
Bands continuing to tour without their original members has sadly become as much of a rock tradition as blowing an amp. So, if it’s not a horrifically offensive move and the songs remain sultry (which “I Need You Tonight” does), then the bands will play them. The current lineup of INXS will be doing just that at Wolf Trap. $42 in house / $25 lawn, 8 p.m.
Black Cat: Mittenfields (album release), Mean Ideas, The Plums. $8, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
They wear ’90s basketball jerseys and drop ’90s beats and references like Wesley Person dropped three-pointers, but The Cool Kids have a freshness and energy that makes them sound more like an homage than a nostalgia act. They’ll be at the Rock and Roll Hotel with Violet Says 5. $15 / $18, 9 p.m.
Black Cat: The Caribbean, Little Pink, Flea Market. $8, 8 p.m.
Red Palace: Memory Tapes, Pree. $10 in advance / $12 day of show, 8:30 p.m.
9:30 Club Queensryche (30th Anniversary Tour), The Voodoos. $35, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
After three years of prescient rock writers assuring us that he’d be our new favorite singer-songwriter, Kurt Vile came out with Smoke Ring For My Halo and delivered on the promise of his self-released material: diamonds in a morass of reverb, haze and sludge. It’s a full bill at the Rock and Roll Hotel with WOODS, White Fence and True Widow opening. $16 in advance / $18 day of show, 7 p.m.
DC9: Bake Sale, Like Whatevers, Orla Conway. $8, 9 p.m.
Black Cat: Screen Vinyl Image, The Prids, Brief Candles. $10, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY
What’s better than hearing the bedroom surf rock of Small Black at DC9? Hearing it for a good cause. Their show with Outputmessage will benefit the Grassroots Reconciliation Group, which focuses on healing former Ugandan child soldiers. $13, 8:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Last year, My Morning Jacket opened up the season at Merriweather Post Pavilion and proved that the Columbia amphitheater was a good fit for their combination of theatricality and occasionally earthy and expansive mix of psychedelia and southern rock. Their opener, Neko Case, should also have little problem filling the space with her voice. $45 in-house / $35 lawn, 5:30 p.m.
Black Cat: Olivia Mancini & the Mates, Tom McBride. $10, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY
The 9:30 Club will be the go-to destination for the entirety of Saturday. In the morning, one of our favorite concerts of the year, the Girls Rock! DC showcase, will remind cynics and true believers that there is something magical and inspirational about picking up that instrument and turning up the volume. $10, 10:30 a.m.
Later on the same stage, see an inspiring rocking woman of the full-grown variety. Lissy Rosemont of the Junior League Band will take to the stage with her many instruments, her songs about sorrow and heartbreak…and her extremely pregnant belly. Hey, if M.I.A. can do it, so can Lissy. Hybrid punk-folkers Kingsley Flood and Typefighter will be opening. $15, 8 p.m.
Red Palace: Detox Retox, Loose Lips, Airboss. $8, 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Scattered Trees and The Alternate Routes bring their co-headlining tour to Red Palace with opener Paul Dempsey. What to expect: a night of harmonies, heartbreak and soul. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday night. $10, 8 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hotel: Patrick Stump, Wynter Gordon, John West. $20 in advance / $23 day of show, 8 p.m.
