by DCist contributor Dave Weigel From Stern’s MySpace page. You probably already knew this, and you might have been checking to see if this show, like Stern’s last D.C. show, featured a kissing booth. (It did not.) But: There is no middle ground on Marnie Stern. Her music either hypnotizes or it subjects the listener to an endurance test. This does not change from song to start: You make your choice at the start of…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is a DCist first. We’ve been doing Three Stars long enough that we’re profiling a band with members from a disbanded former Three Stars subject. Michael Medlock was the frontman for The Sentiment, a hard rocking group we covered in 2006. Two years, several shows and an EP later, he’s now at the helm of the Black & White Jacksons, a punk-inspired four-piece that’s making…