MONDAY >> This ain’t not J-Pop, we swear. If you want good old-fashioned Japanese rock ‘n’ roll (OK, it’s true, we don’t really know what that’s supposed to sound like either), The Captains from some place in Japan (the city name on their MySpace page uses Japanese characters) will drop by The Red & The Black tonight. They will be supported by Sugarcane Crawl, formerly known as Blues Hammer, and D.C.’s The Bourbon Dynasty. 9…

It’s hard not to like The Bourbon Dynasty’s self-titled debut, even before having heard a note. I mean, it’s right there in the gatefold: “Vince McCool, trumpet.” If a band that enlists a trumpeter with a name like that isn’t a winner, I don’t know who is. He should have an 80’s cop show where he rock and rolls all night and solves crime every day. The Bourbon Dynasty themselves don’t rock nearly as hard…

Monday >> Hear the man behind the sound. Don Zientara runs Arlington’s legendary Inner Ear Studio, and has been behind the board for more of this town’s seminal punk records than we can count. But it turns out after all these years that Zientara is also an excellent songwriter in his own right. His 2003 collection of stripped down solo tunes garnered solid reviews, and he is joined by Sentai and Shift tonight at the…