>> Akron/Family’s folk-influenced jams will pour out of the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight, with Greg Davies, Raleigh’s Megafaun, and Stamen and Pistils. $12, 8 p.m. doors. >> The awards have already been announced, so it’s a good time to check out the end of the D.C. Shorts Film Festival now that they’re offering one of several “Best-Of” collections screening at 10 p.m. tonight — odds are good you won’t have to sit through…

FRIDAY: >> New York’s Latin-funk collective Yerba Buena, the energetic offspring of Venezuelan-born producer Andrés Levin and his Cuban-born wife Ileana Padrón (aka Cucu Diamantes), is the only band touring the country today that could bring together a guest artist line-up for their latest album, Island Life, that includes M1 from Dead Prez, comedian and actor John Leguizamo, and gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. The combo may occasionally feel like its trying to be an Afro-Cuban…