Best Coast performs tonight at 9:30 Club.
Tuesday
Best Coast, Wavves, Cherry Glazerr @ 9:30 Club 7 P.M. Sold-Out. All ages, accessible venue.
It may be the dead of winter, but Best Coast and Wavves are here to remind us that Summer is Forever. The Californian bands team up for another joint tour, each showcasing tracks from their respective 2015 releases. Best Coast’s California Nights saw the band maturing, polishing the rough spots off their sound while showing emotional depth in the lyrics. Wavves will always be pranksters but while earlier recordings were shambolic and on the verge of collapse, they’ve managed to tighten the screws while maintaining an energy lacking in a lot of bands on the scene.
>>U St Music Hall: SafetySuit, Connell Cruise 7 P.M. $20. All ages, accessible venue.
Wednesday
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Lower Dens @ 9:30 Club 7 P.M. $25. All ages, accessible venue.
Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra makes lo-fi chill-wave psychedelic rock tunes a far cry from singer Ruban Nielson’s previous band The Mint Chicks. Last year the band released their best record so far, Multi-Love, an exploration in opening up one’s relationship to a third and the highs and lows of such an arrangement. Baltimore’s Lower Dens also released a great record in 2015, Escape from Evil, an album that saw the band leaving behind the krautrock melodies of previous record and moving into pure pop territory. Both bands are a delight on their own, but together it is one of the best shows of the week.
Thursday
>>DC9: Freakwater, Jaye Jayle 8:30 P.M. $12. All ages, inaccessible venue.
>>Black Cat: Keeps, Church Girls 7:30 P.M. $12. All ages, accessible venue.
Friday
>>Fillmore Silver Spring: Never Shout Never, Metro Station, Jule Vera, Waterparks, The Great Heights Band 6:30 P.M. $18. All ages, accessible venue.
>>Union Arts DC: Priests, Janel & Anthony, Adriana-Lucia Cotes, Escape-ism. 8:30. All ages, accessible venue.
>>Songbyrd Music House & Record Café: Kokayi, Walking Sticks, Cautious Clay, LanceNeptune 8 P.M. $10. All ages, inaccessible venue.
Saturday
St. Lucia, Tigertown @ 9:30 Club 8 P.M. Sold-Out. All ages, accessible venue.
South Africa via Brooklyn synth-pop band St. Lucia is the project of Jean-Philip Grobler. Grobler and his assembled band adapts influences from the 80’s by taking everything up to 11. His music aims for stadium worth choruses and tracks that would not sound out of place in a John Hughes movie or a teen show on MTV. Grobler’s latest release Matter has the catchiness of the debut, but sets out to be an album rather than a collection of singles. Up and coming Austrialian band Tigertown is a perfect opener, sharing a similar sound with St. Lucia taking cues from the 80’s but they are less Peter Gabriel and more Kylie Minouge.
Sunday
Madeon, Skylar Spence @ 9:30 Club 9 P.M. $30. All ages, accessible venue.
21 year-old French producer Madeon has been making waves in the EDM scene since he was just 17. The baby faced producer makes maximal EDM with drops but is less hard edged then contemporaries with a sound that is equally inspired by French house music and, of course, Daft Punk. Baltimore native Skyler Spence, formerly known as St. Pepsi, is a synth crooner who found his voice on his latest release Prom King. The slept on 2015 release mixed both instrumental cuts, which he has been known for, with bullet proof pop songs that could soundtrack a school dance as well as a night out. Both artists have exceptional live shows that will have the crowd dancing all night long.
>>Jammin Java: Rhett Miller, Salim Nourallah 7:30 P.M. $20. All ages, accessible venue.
>>Fillmore Silver Spring: Bryson Tiller. 8 P.M. Sold-Out. All ages, accessible venue.
