Garbage has sold out the 9:30 Club on Wednesday night.
TUESDAY
For your metal needs from Thursday through Sunday, you’ll have to head to Baltimore, but tonight, if you want to see Meshuggah and Baroness, you’ll just have to make it out to the Fillmore in Silver Spring. $25, 8:00 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hotel: Crystal Fighters, Is Tropical. $15, 8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
After having not released an album (aside from a greatest hits compilation) since 2005’s Bleed Like Me, Garbage is suddenly releasing albums and touring. The newest effort has received some tepid reviews, but tonight’s 9:30 Club show is sold out as Shirley Manson has undoubtedly retained her ability to vamp through a show and command the attention of a room. 9:00 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hotel: Maps & Atlases, The Big Sleep, Sister Crayon. $12, 8:00 p.m.
THURSDAY
Their opening set for Animal Collective at last year’s show in Columbia may have been many people’s first exposure to Black Dice, but the artsy noisemakers have been evoking discomfort in the most raucous way possible for years. Anyone who was pleasantly surprised by their set (or alternatively, decided to trek up to Columbia solely for their set) should get to U Street Music Hall early. The show will be over by ten and they’ve got quite the cadre of openers: Protect-U, Little Dickheads and Beautiful Swimmers. $12, 6:00 p.m.
Black Cat: America Hearts, Cheniers, Dot Dash. $8, 8:00 p.m.
Comet Ping Pong: Ketamines, Teen Liver, The Doozies. $10, 10:00 p.m.
FRIDAY
We’re just going to come out and say it—we do not understand the appeal of Drake. Commenters, please enlighten us, because it seems that such self-aware sentimentality should sound more interesting (see: Frank Ocean). However, we’re clearly in the minority, and the ex-Degrassi star is coming to the Verizon Center with a host of other stars like J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana. $59.75-$109.75, 7:00 p.m.
Red Palace: Rocky Votolato, CALLmeKAT. $14, 8:00 p.m.
SATURDAY
From the looks of things, many of you enjoyed reading the tour diaries from our Midwestern travelers Silo Halo, but chances are you’ve never seen them. Here’s your chance as they have a show at Artomatic with feedback gurus Screen Vinyl Image and Chickfactor show stealers and Slumberland veterans Lorelei. Free, 9:00 p.m.
Iota: Hoots & Hellmouth, Jim Hanft. $13, 9:00 p.m.
SUNDAY
Sometimes a band picks a name that is so supremely apt that it hurts. See Pygmy Lush. While we can’t speak to the former part of their name, their arrangements are in fact so beautiful, enveloping and well, lush, that we can’t imagine a better name for them. They’ll be at the Black Cat tonight with Black God and Highway Cross. $8, 8:00 p.m.
Rock and Roll Hotel: Great Lake Swimmers, Cold Specks. $13 in advance/$15 day of show, 8:00 p.m.