FRIDAY: >> It’s the DAM! Festival, son. We’ve already written a blue streak about it, so check out our recent music archives for some great interviews and MP3s from participating artists, and weigh your options between The Red and the Black, the Rock and Roll Hotel, or Velvet Lounge, full schedule with too many bands to list here. Of course, the non-DAM! show of the night is clearly Baltimore’s Spank Rock, who’ll be bringing their…

The 6 Points Music Festival kicked off yesterday, appropriately on the 6th of the month, with shows at three locations around the D.C. area: Staccato in Adams Morgan, Austin Grill in Silver Spring, and a three band line-up that DCist caught last night at Clarendon Grill in Arlington. Having never seen a show at this venue, I was pleasantly surprised by the atmosphere, but frustrated by a sound issue that persisted throughout the night, which…