The Week In Shows: 11/4-11/10

Holy crap, y'all, it's November! An impossibly beautiful Saturday morn is as good a time as any to plot ones weekly live music schedule, I think. Let's take a look at what's happening in the greater DC metro this week, with the added bonus of filling you in on what I'll be taking in over the course of the week. Hot diggity!

We're zooming along to the end of the year. Batten down the hatches, Christmas shopping season will soon be upon us! In the meantime, there's plenty of shows to venture out and about for. My recommendations are below. As ever, you might just spot me at the shows with stars by 'em (at press time I was still making up my dang mind). Happy gigging.

As an aside, don't forget to vote this week! The choices might be lackluster (especially when it comes to the options for governor in Virginia), but those ladies and gents need to know that the masses are still concerned with their hijinks.   

MONDAY, 11/4/13

-The Head & The Heart + Thao & The Get Down Stay Down + Quiet Life (9:30 Club - SOLD OUT)
-Melt Banana + Brain Tentacles + Mutwawa (Black Cat)
-Braids + Hundred Waters + Kodak to Graphs (DC9)
-National Wake (Iota)

TUESDAY, 11/5/13

-Luke Temple (Black Cat)
-Tarfu + Stereoriots + Thaylobleu (Velvet Lounge)
-Tim Kasher + Laura Stevenson + Des Ark (Rock & Roll Hotel)

WEDNESDAY, 11/6/13

-Communion DC f/ Night Sweats, Tennis, + more (Black Cat)
-The Magician + Caleb L'Etoile (U Street Music Hall)
-Broncho + Spirit Animal + Vikesh Kapoor (DC9)
-And So I Watch You From Afar + TTNG + Mylets (Rock & Roll Hotel)

THURSDAY, 11/7/13

-J. Roddy Walston & The Business + No BS! Brass Band (9:30 Club)
-Coco Rosie (6th & I)
-Young Galaxy + Mister Lies (Black Cat)
-England in 1819 + Graph Rabbit (Tree House Lounge)
-John Vanderslice + Bent Shapes (DC9)
-Electric Grandmother + Catscan! + Goddammit + Matty Rockville (Velvet Lounge)

FRIDAY, 11/8/13

-Built to Spill + Slam Dunk + Genders + The Warm Hair (9:30 Club - Early Show)
-Fire & The Wheel + Jon Parker 9 (The Dunes)
-Scott Miller + Hollis Brown (Gypsy Sally's)
-Pacman + Peso + DJ 2Coat$ (Comet Ping Pong)
-The Blow + Love Inks (Black Cat)
-John Fogerty (Constitution Hall)
-Justin Jones + Long Arms (Rock & Roll Hotel)

SATURDAY, 11/9/13

-Lotus + Up Until Now (9:30 Club)
-Sunwolf + Very Americans + Nice Breeze (Comet Ping Pong)
-Clones Of Clones + Molehill + Preston Hull (Velvet Lounge)
-Midlake + Nicole Atkins (solo) (Rock & Roll Hotel)

SUNDAY, 11/10/13

-Lotus + Up Until Now (9:30 Club)
-Pop Zeus (Galaxy Hut)
-Grant-Lee Phillips + Adrian Krygowski (6th & I)
-Penny Pistolero + Jeremy Porter & The Tucos + Davey Brown (Velvet Lounge)