>> There’s a great, free Caribbean-themed outdoor concert tonight on the Kennedy Center’s South Plaza Stage from 5:30 to 9 p.m.: Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Jamaica’s The Ska-talites, and Richmond’s jazz-funk outfit Plunky & Oneness. The show will go on rain or shine. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. >> Assuming the predicted thunderstorms late tonight don’t block the view completely, you might want to dust off that telescope and see if you can spot the…
FRIDAY: >> DCist favorites The French Kicks are at the Rock and Roll Hotel tonight with The Childballads (the Bon Savants cancelled). $13, 9:30 p.m. >> Exotic Fever Records is keeping the spirit of the D.C. underground scene alive almost singlehandedly, and this weekend they’ll celebrate their seven year anniversary with an ecclectic festival to showcase their artists. Tonight it’s Mass Movement of the Moth, New Idea Society, Den of Thieves, Kathy Cashel, Worn In…
>> Check out Unbuckled alums Deleted Scenes at Warehouse Nextdoor with the rest of an intriguing line-up, including Brooklyn’s rising bedroom blues star She Keeps Bees, the psychedelic-influences The Love Story and Pash. [1017 7th St. NW, 9:30 p.m. $8] >> The usual bass-heavy music pumping through Cafe Citron take a night off for Flamenco Night. The vibrant combination of vocals, musicians and dancing turns any Monday into a rhythm-infused celebration. [1343 Connecticut Ave….
FRIDAY: >> Friends ‘o DCist Middle Distance Runner have had quite a ride since playing our special Unbuckled/Anniversary concert last September. Despite a few bumps on the road, they’ve gone from little band that could to having their first headlining slot at 9:30 club tonight. We’ll say we knew them when. With The Dance Party. 10 p.m., $10. >> Akron/Family impressed the pants off of critics in 2005 with their self-titled neo-folk stylings. They’ll be…
FRIDAY: >> Bliss, the Black Cat’s indie rock dance party, presents a combination DJ/Live show. Kicking things off will be The Juan Maclean, followed by the always memorable (and not nearly as dead as you might have thought) Edie Sedgwick. 9 p.m., $12. >> We’re all by now familiar with the greatest hits of the Kubrick canon: The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, etc. But if you’ve never had the…
FRIDAY: >> Baltimore’s Fertile Ground return to 9:30 Club for a concert with collaborator Raheem DeVaughn called Let’s Do It Again. Also singer Anthony David. 9 p.m., $22. >> Gallery Openings of Note: Maria Friberg opens her show, titled embedded, at Conner Contemporary, reception 6 to 8 p.m. That’s embedded #4 at left. Also we checked out a preview of Colby Caldwell’s new show, Small Game, at Hemphill Fine Arts on Wednesday, and definitely recommend…
FRIDAY: >> George Washington University’s surprisingly excellent improv/sketch comedy troupe, Recess, will hold their monthly midnight show tonight in the Ballroom Center . They assure fans that dress-up clothes are not necessary, “but you must have showered in the last 72 hours.” For just three bucks, let the campus legacy-holders make you laugh, and likely piss you off. They’re willing to take that risk. (Erin Zimmer) >> There’s a little band called The Ambitions playing…
Compiled by Amanda Mattos and Jacques Ntonme Monday >> Call it jazz, call it moods; we call it fun. DCIC and The Evens are at Fort Reno tonight. 7 p.m., Free. >> It’s another solid Monday night at the Black Cat’s Backstage with Let’s French and These United States (a band that shares members with Three Stars alumni The Apparitions). 9 p.m., $6. >> Tickets are still available to catch our favorite moody songstress, Fiona…
Really, we should all be mad about Pink Mountaintops. Because they’re Canadian. And they’re doing down-and-dirty, makin’-it-behind-the-bleachers rock ‘n roll, a genre that we should theoretically own, hands down. And worse than that, they’re doing it well. I mean, as if Canada had not already asserted its indie rock dominance, now they come trouncing on home territory. Yet, it’s just really hard to be mad at a man with questionably short shorts and Jesus-hair crooning…
FRIDAY: The Mozart Year is almost halfway over — the man’s birthday was January 27 — but classical concert programming continues to celebrate it. Opera Lafayette gets in the game tonight and tomorrow (June 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m.) with a concert performance of Mozart’s first important opera, Idomeneo, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park. The vocal cast promises to be excellent, including an up-and-coming young singer named Millicent Scarlett, who…
