The Week In Shows: 12/2-12/8

A Monday afternoon 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!

I don't know about y'all, but I'm pretty happy it's December. Black Friday nonsense is over, and the countdown to 2014 is on. As much as I hate the temps of winter, I'm all about a lot of what the season has to offer. Traditionally, this means some pretty killer shows. Let's see what's on tap, shall we? I just might be out and about this week, friends, let's say hi (show decisions still unmade as of press time). 

MONDAY, 12/2/13

-Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Birchmere)
-Short Lives + Mind Set (Galaxy Hut)

TUESDAY, 12/3/13

-Alarms & Controls + Soccer Team + Talk It (Black Cat)
-The Walking Sticks + Pleasure Curses + White Gold + Br'er (The Dunes)

WEDNESDAY, 12/4/13

-Jagwar Ma + Fascinator (U Street Music Hall)
-Savoir Adore + French Horn Rebellion (Living Social)
-Holograms + TV Ghost (DC9)
-Emmylou Harris (The Hamilton)

THURSDAY, 12/5/13

-Marco Benevento (U Street Music Hall)
-Hugh Cornwell + Dot Dash (Black Cat)
-The Walking Sticks + Peyote Pilgrim + Jack Tierney (DC9)

FRIDAY, 12/6/13

-Dark Star Orchestra (9:30 Club)
-Legs Like Tree Trunks + Cope Ascetic + Raised By Wolves (Comet Ping Pong)
-The Riverbreaks + Mission South + The Sea Life (Black Cat)
-Thee Lolitas + Musicband + The Brooklyn What + The Sniffs (The Pinch)
-Skelliton + Equiknox + Color School (Velvet Lounge)
-Here We Go Magic + Paperhaus (Paperhaus)
-King Krule + Tops (Rock & Roll Hotel - SOLD OUT)

SATURDAY, 12/7/13

-Dark Star Orchestra (9:30 Club)
-The Bottom Dollars + The Nuclears + The Mellish (DC9)
-Vinny Vegas + Beauchene Skulls + Bravenoise (Velvet Lounge)
-American Aquarium (Hill Country Live)
-The NRIs + Fire And The Wheel (Iota)
-Joseph Arthur & Mike Mills (Jammin Java)
-Matthew E. White + Dosh + Ivan Howard (Rock & Roll Hotel)

SUNDAY, 12/8/13

-Rock'n'Shop (Black Cat)
-Koshari + Eric+Erica (Galaxy Hut)
-Moon Taxi + The Shack Band (Rock & Roll Hotel)
-JD Samson & MEN + Ex Hex + Coup Sauvage & The Snips + DJ Dean (Comet Ping Pong)