The Black Cat 20th anniversary party is Friday and Saturday night. It’s sold out, but you should try for a ticket anyway.

This weekend, The Black Cat—D.C.’s favorite punk venue and dive bar—turns twenty.

When it first opened its doors in September of 1993, there was a very different scene along the 14th Street corridor it sits on. But despite massive growth in the area, the Black Cat, has—remarkably—remained unscathed. If fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything that’s different about the famed venue from the time it opened its doors for the first time two decades ago (you should read Washington City Paper’s terrific oral history of the venue). Owner Dante Ferrando has even refrained from installing credit card machines, making it one of the last remaining cash-only club/bar in the city.

That’s some punk shit right there.

This weekend, the Cat is celebrating its big birthday with a pair of kick-ass shows, featuring reunions of some of D.C.’s most beloved bands of yesteryear. Dischord harDCore group Gray Matter (which features Ferrando on drums) is reuniting, along with Teen Beat’s Tuscadero, experimental art-pop legends Shudder To Think, famed D.C. ex-pat Ted Leo and his band of Pharmacists, and a host of others.

To celebrate, DCist has put together a Spotify playlist to get you psyched for this weekend’s shows.

Playlist compiled by Matt Cohen and Justin Gellerson.

On it, you’ll find tracks from all the bands playing this weekend (with the exception of the excellent Coup Sauvage and the Snips, because they aren’t on Spotify! But you should listen to them anyways), as well as some deeper cuts from bands of people that will be DJing the shows (Alec MacKaye, Kid Congo Powers, and Ian Svenonius).

Cheers, Black Cat. Here’s to twenty more.

Both the shows are sold out, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t come hang out in the Red Room!