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…

Last week, they brought the roof down at The Red & The Black, literally. OK, not really literally. We can’t blame the Brindley Brothers for the crumbling ceiling which closed off the upper level of the H Street Corridor’s version of DC9 last week (it’s hopefully fixed by now, we’re trying to find out). What we can tell you is that the quality and dedication illustrated in their intimate acoustic set confirmed why they…