Rae Sremmurd, shown at the 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Festival, is among the performances to be sure to catch at Trillectro. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard)

Rae Sremmurd, shown at the 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Festival, is among the performances to be sure to catch at Trillectro. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard)

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23

Titus Andronicus and Two Inch Astronaut @ Rock and Roll Hotel 7 P.M. $25. All ages, accessible venue.
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus now has eleven years and multiple line-ups under its belt, going from a curiosity filling venues in Jersey to playing sold-out shows in mid-sized venues across the country, and signing to Merge records. The band is known for its raucous live shows, which DCist has documented. The band’s first D.C. show was supporting Times New Viking in 2008, and now the band is back playing the Rock and Roll Hotel as part of the venue’s 10th anniversary. Titus Andronicus usually sells out Black Cat, so seeing them in a smaller venue is a treat that won’t come around again for a while.

  • U Street Music Hall: Gallant, Eryn Allen Kane 7 P.M. Sold Out. All ages, accessible venue.
  • Wolf Trap: Goo Goo Dolls, Collective Soul, Tribe Society 7:30 P.M. $32-$55. All ages, accessible venue.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24

Downtown Boys, Big Hush, and Bad Moves @ Rock and Roll Hotel 7 P.M. $15. All ages, accessible venue.

Downtown Boys is a punk band with a message, but it doesn’t let politics take over the pure joy of its music. The band’s 2015 debut, Full Communism, was a danceable slab of punk infused with horn blasts and the sweet voice of singer Victoria Ruiz. Singing in both English and Spanish, the band takes on many targets like inequality, racism, and the 24-hour news cycle. Downtown Boys, like Titus Andronicus, is playing as part of the Rock and Roll Hotel’s tenth anniversary, and there could be no more fitting stage for the band.

Miranda Lambert at the CMA Festival. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

Miranda Lambert, Kip Moore, Brothers Osborne @ Merriweather Post Pavilion 7:30 P.M. $45 – $125. All ages, accessible venue.
Divorce is hard, especially when you are a celebrity and your divorce is in the public eye. Not to mention that your ex-boo is hooking up with his co-host on TV and their love story is laying out week after week. These are words I wouldn’t have fathomed to be writing when country singer Miranda Lambert burst the bar doors open with her debut record, Kerosene, and the follow-up, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Lambert went on to become one of the biggest stars in country on the strength of her songs, including “Gunpowder & Lead” and “The House That Built Me”. Along the way, Lambert married Blake Shelton and while that relationship has ultimately fallen apart, Lambert should not be defined by it. She released the 2014 album, Platinum, a career highlight that not only lived up to its name by going platinum, but also won a Grammy.

  • Rock and Roll Hotel: Trash Talk, Nappynappa, and Sir E.U 7 P.M. $15. All ages, accessible venue.
  • Black Cat: Wing Dam, Go Cozy, and Hand Grenade Job 7:30 P.M. $10. All ages, accessible venue.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

Rock and Roll Hotel: Milemarker, Puff Pieces, and the Effects 8 P.M. $15. All ages, accessible venue.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

2016 Trillectro Music Festival: Kid Cudi, Rae Sremmurd, Goldlink, Lil Uzi Vert, and more @ Merriweather Post Pavilion 11 A.M. $65 – $125. All ages, accessible venue.

Trillectro is a local festival that, like Sweetlife before it, went from a D.C. location to Merriweather Post Pavilion as demand grew and bigger acts took to the stage. The festival has a way of booking artists just before they hit commercial peaks, like Travis Scott in 2013 and Chance the Rapper last year. This year sees the return of two acts that played the 2014 bill, but who have moved up into headlining spots: Rae Sremmurd and D.C. rapper Goldlink. Forget the main headliner, Kid Cudi, the real treat here is Rae Sremmurd, the Mississippi duo whose second record, Sremmlife 2, dropped last week. Rae Sremmurd is a band of brothers backed by super producer Mike WiLL Made-It that found initial success with the track, “No Flex Zone,”. Two years on, the brothers have evolved to a weirder sound. Sremmlife ‘s beats knock harder and the songs are stronger, including the highlight and should-be-song-of-the-summer, “Black Beatles”, The rest of the line-up is peppered with plenty of great acts, like the aforementioned Goldlink and upstart Lil Uzi Vert, so it should be a good day at Merriweather. Get a preview via an official Trillectro mix.

  • Wolf Trap: Bonnie Raitt and Richard Thompson Trio 8 P.M. $40-$70. All ages accessible venue.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28

Songbyrd: Surf Curse, Lala Lala, and Shirt/Pants 8:30 $12. All ages, inaccessible venue.

  • DC9: Droplockers, Prowess That Testament, and Blacmav & the Fear Itself Crew 8:30 $8. All ages, inaccessible venue.
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