Last night, John Legend teamed up with the NSO and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings in a moving tribute to one of the great soul singer of all time, D.C. native Marvin Gaye.

Whether you’re a little bit Iggy or a little bit Moby; whether you breathlessly await each L’il Wayne mixtape or whether pop music ceased to interest you the year the Beatles stopped touring and Dylan went electric (in which case, congratulations on figuring out this old Internet), there was something to your taste at the third edition of the Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend. Not just something, actually: A lot. With a big assist from…

Winehouse, shminehouse. When the Dap Kings, the ace house band of Brooklyn’s agreeably retro Daptone soul label, showed up at the Black Cat Friday Thursday night, they brought their real soul singer, Sharon Jones. I know: It’s not a fair comparison. The Dap Kings were never really anything more than just guns for hire when they played with Amy Winehouse, whereas they’ve recorded three marvelous albums with Jones. I never got to see James…

FRIDAY: Anyone in need of a little funk infusion tonight would do well to check out Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings at Black Cat. The DCist staff list today was full of sentiments like “I’ve heard great things about these guys,” and Jones’ background suggests she probably has more than a passing understanding of the world of soul: She was born in Augusta, Georgia (hometown of James Brown) and spent her teens in Brooklyn, NY….