The Week In Shows: 4/27-5/3

A Lou Reed "Perfect Day" perfect Sunday afternoon seems 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, shall we? Hot diggity!

It's a legitimate spring. I'm getting some spring fever (or maybe it's just my allergies). In any event, shows! Go to some! Here's some picks for the next few days. And remember, y'all, each week I'll be picking one show that is my seriously, go to this recommended show of the week. And here we go, a look at some recommended shows for the coming week.


MONDAY, 4/27/15

-US Christmas + Generation of Vipers + Caustic Casanova + Tone (The Pinch)

TUESDAY, 4/28/15

-Spandau Ballet (9:30 Club)
-Coup Sauvage & The Snips + Olivia Neutron-John (Black Cat)

WEDNESDAY, 4/29/15

-War (The Birchmere)
-Toro Y Moi + Vinyl Williams (9:30 Club - SOLD OUT)
-Water Liars + Hatfield McCoy (DC9)
-The Soft White Sixties + Native Lights (Black Cat)

THURSDAY, 4/30/15

-Mittenfields + Greenland + Magnetar Flares + Night Streets (Black Cat) (Extra Recommended!)
-Ava Luna + Young Rapids + Wing Dam (Comet Ping Pong)

FRIDAY, 5/1/15

-Ex Hex + The Shirks + The Ar-Kaics (Black Cat - SOLD OUT)

SATURDAY, 5/2/15

-Two Gallants + Blank Range (Rock & Roll Hotel)
-Fat White Family + Sun Club + Sherman Whips (Metro Gallery, Baltimore - Worth the drive)
-Baby Bry Bry & The Apologists + Crocodiles + Congo Sanchez (The Lot - finale)

SUNDAY, 5/3/15

-Fat White Family + Sun Club (Rock & Roll Hotel)
-Stephen Merritt (6th & I)
-Lord Huron + Hamilton Leithauser (9:30 Club - SOLD OUT)
-Oh Land (U Street Music Hall)



[posted 4.26.15]