Annie Clark kicked off a sold-out two-night stand at the 9:30 Club on Saturday, showcasing songs from her latest, self-titled album while flaunting superb live chops.

David Byrne and St. Vincent put on a dazzling display of songcraft and showmanship at The Music Center at Strathmore on Sunday night, enthralling a rapt audience with a memorable performance that seamlessly blended the distinctive talents and idiosyncracies of the year’s most highly-touted musical collaborators.

Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent, brought her mischievous divergences to the 9:30 Club last night — and the crowd couldn’t get enough.

Wow. Damn. And wow. It’s hard to reconcile a concert like last night’s exquisite set by Andrew Bird. As mentioned several times by the performers during the evening, Washington D.C. was witness to the final installment of Bird’s tour with fellow genre-defier St. Vincent. The billing seems appropriate. Take one musically gifted, experimental, and odd male musician and combine with a female of the same description.

FRIDAY: >> Even though Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is an obvious choice for the movie-going crowd this weekend, the Avalon Theatre — just north of the Potter madness at the Uptown — is showing Talk to Me, the new biopic on the life of famed Washington, D.C., talk-show host and activist Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. 5:50 and 8:30 p.m. >> Unbuckled alumni The Vita Ruins celebrate the release of their…