FRIDAY: >> Odds are good that you’ll be able to happily dance the night away at Rock and Roll Hotel, no matter what kind of music you’re in the mood for. Downstairs you’ve got Party Bros., a tongue-in-cheek tribute to party music by DJs Gavin Holland and Chris Burns, featuring tunes ranging from Black Sabbath to Taylor Dayne, 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., while upstairs is a free funk and soul session from Moneytown, also…

>> We’ve checked out Page France a couple of times and are sure you’ll have a good time if you head down to the Red and the Black tonight. They’re playing with Austin’s excellent Peel for a 9 p.m. show, only $8. >> The action at SILVERDOCS continues, and if you’ve been having trouble getting advance tickets to evening screenings and aren’t willing to wait in the stand-by lines, consider taking advantage of the…

Sometimes music as seemingly simple as Page France’s feels like it’s hardly worth writing about. At the Black Cat on Thursday, the Cumberland, MD six-piece (reigning as the undisputed best indie pop band in western Maryland) played a thirty minute set. Maybe 8 or 10 songs, each one barely more than a hastily-strummed acoustic guitar, a tinkling xylophone, and a simple snare beat. Some songs hardly even had a single chord change for the first…

SXDC As much as we’d like to be, DCist isn’t at SXSW right now. A couple of our ist-a-verse brethren made the trek to the oh-so-awesome music, film and interactive festival out in sunny Austin. What’s even more exciting than that is that so did two D.C. musicians! We’re beaming like proud parents as our very own Three Stars alum The Hint head to Texas. It’s kind of like sending our kids off to college….

Yes, it is about that time of year again. That time when DCist comes out from behind our computer screens to prove that we do, in fact, have lives and personalities. And we’d love for you to join us. Since we imagine we’re not incentive enough, we’ll have drink specials, giveaways, and DJs. And if you were under a rock this week, this is what you may have missed: — Marion Barry reacquainted himself…

I never noticed, but Sunday is hard day to play because everyone is exhausted. Questions to the crowd, like “How are you guys?” are met with lukewarm exhalations of air. The joint was buried under fatigue and quiet. Into this stepped blog buzz-meisters and Maryland folksters Page France to set up shop at the Galaxy Hut last night. And boy did they set up, with an abundance of instruments that would give a few choirs…