Paul Weller, the legendary frontman from The Style Council and The Jam, effortlessly ripped through his catalog on Tuesday night at the 9:30 Club.

High-profile acts at the Verizon Center (Beyonce, Lil Wayne) and one-day festivals at Merriweather Post Pavilion (Mad Decent Block Party, Summer Spirit Fest) dominate the week in music around D.C.

It’s written right here in subsection 218 of the “Sacred British Cows” chapter of the (Semi)Professional Rock Critics’ Catechism and Field Manual that any discussion of former Jam and Style Council frontman and prolific rock-folk-soul journeyman Paul Weller must mention that he’s Huge in the U.K. and more of an Anglophile footnote in the U.S. So did y’alls hear that? In the mother country, he’s a Hyde Park-filling megastar; here in the colonies, he’s…