If Thursday’s show at the Red and the Black was any indication, this year’s 6 Points Music Festival looks to be a good one. The local fest, in its fourth year but only its second with a wider reach, aims to someday be a D.C. version of South by Southwest and helped its cause by bringing a diverse indie bill to H Street NE. The show began with Brooklyn’s The Lisps, followed by Chicago’s Scotland…

As a rather fervent concert goer, I’ve been watching my October Outlook calendar with alternating excitement and dread as my concert calendar gets more and more crowded. This all came to a head yesterday as I started putting in the DAMfest schedule and noticed a whole bunch of scheduling conflicts in the making. Area indie rock fans are going to have some tough choices to make the last full week of October. Thursday, Oct….

MONDAY >> Tucson’s Calexico will be at the 9:30 Club in support of their new album Garden Ruin, along with Toronto-based singer/songwriter and Broken Social Scene alum Jason Collett. Tickets, running $15, are still available, but even if you can’t make it, fear not: Calexico seem destined to be featured on every soundtrack to every indie film released in the next 2 years. Doors at 7:30, show starts at 8:45 p.m. >> While Echo and…

MONDAY: >> Built to Spill is known for its smart, gorgeous pop; catch the band live tonight at the 9:30 Club for $18. Built To Spill goes on at 10 p.m. >> Are you intrigued or terrified after looking at the web site of Pleaseeasaur? We think we’re both. They play the Black Cat backstage tonight with Neil Hamburger. $8, 9 p.m. THURSDAY: >> The 10th annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival commences…

Punk rockers the Dresden Dolls hit the Black Cat. Count Zero opens. 8:30 p.m. $10. “Grace,” a dark comedy from “Six Feet Under” writer Craig Wright, is now being performed by the Wooly Mammoth theater company at the Warehouse Theater on Seventh Street NW. 8 p.m. $24-32. Nick Swardson of “Reno 911” is at the DC Improv. 8:30 p.m. $15. The International Washington Horse Show has galloped into town. (Ha ha. Look at us. We…