TUESDAY >> What do you think about panic? Is it widespread? Spread-heads (is that a word?) probably already know about Widespread Panic’s two day set for today and tomorrow at the Warner Theater. The jam band is touring behind their tenth studio album, “Free Somehow.” Tickets are sold out, but we expect you can pick some up among the herbal blends on 13th Street NW. Doors at 7 p.m., $42.50. >> Anousheh Khalili won a…

While the week between Christmas and New Year’s is far from a dead zone for movies, most of the new fare that’s going to be brought out before year’s end has already come out, and those that the studios did save for Christmas day release look wholly uninteresting, from sequels to films that were horrible missteps to begin with, to overly earnest inspirational fare. Instead, we’ll join the living in the past bandwagon and revisit…

Blogger, itinerant rock critic, and former NPR Arts Editor Bill Wyman had a fine piece in yesterday’s Washington Post introducing the Moby Quotient, the formula he and, uh, “hyperbolic geometry” expert Jim Anderson have devised for quantifying exactly how egregiously a given artist has sold out when they license one of their songs to an advertiser. (Moby, in case you don’t know, won the dubious honor of having this formula named after him for his…

>> Tickets are still available for Fiery Furnaces, dios and Orphan tonight at Black Cat. $15, 8 p.m. >> Check out our full preview of RAMP, performing a free show tonight at Bossa Bistro and Lounge, 9 p.m. >> DCist favorites Robbers on High Street come to Iota tonight promising to play songs from their upcoming disc, “Grand Animals.” Expect another solid, fun show, along with two Chicago bands, The Redwalls and Baby Teeth….

MONDAY: Min Jin Lee will be at Politics and Prose to read from her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires. No, it doesn’t promote welfare for the wealthy. It’s actually about a first-generation immigrant trying to find balance between the ways of her parents and American culture. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: We don’t know what to think about 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis. His win last year was surrounded by controversy over whether he…

We really enjoy giving away free stuff, and so apparently do your favorite local bands. That’s why we got together with Cedars to arrange for an EP and ticket giveaway to their show tonight with Scotland’s the Cinematics and Chicago’s the Changes at the Rock and Roll Hotel! Who loves ya? DCist loves ya. We’ve been big fans of the band since way back in the days when they had a different name and played…

Continuing on with the WHFS obituaries … Today marks the first full day in over 20 years that FM 99.1 has not carried HFS. It could be argued that the end of WHFS was inevitable. The station began going downhill some time ago — perhaps at the introduction of “Loveline” in the place of the Top 11 at 11, the inexplicable addition of Metallica to the playlist, or the mainstreaming of alternative music in the…