Whether turning a showcase set at South by Southwest into a massive game of bingo or using a discarded water bottle as a prop onstage at the Black Cat, The Blow‘s Khaela Maricich has always had a flair for the theatrical. So it surprised exactly no one when she veered even further into performance-art territory last year, tailoring her sets to fit into an overarching, conceptual narrative. Returning to the Black Cat last night for the first time in three years, Maricich opened her performance by explaining that she had been tapped to co-write songs with an unnamed celebrity, widely understood to be Lindsay Lohan. According to Maricich’s fictional account, the songs that she was about to perform were all culled from Lohan’s scrapped third LP.

>> The Blow, Saturday Looks Good to Me and Karl Blau are all at the Black Cat. 8 p.m., $12. >> The songs of Neil Young will be honored by the collective of local musicians known as Ragged Glory at the Velvet Lounge. Check out our full preview here. >> The aforementioned DieYuppieKickball.com is hosting its first initiation meeting tonight at Cosmos, the upstairs of Chief Ike’s, at 7 p.m. Reads the email: “What?!…

By DCist contributor Graham Hough-Cornwell The pseudo sub-genre of schizo-pop that the Fiery Furnaces made well-publicized if not so much well-liked culminated – at least for this reviewer – with Architecture in Helsinki’s second full-length album, In Case We Die. To call the two groups similar perhaps isn’t fair; their most basic common aesthetic is a lack of one in particular. But for my money, Architecture are the more playful of the two, their shouts…