CRANIUM lo' vol: a game night with 20th century and modern composition DJ'd at lo' to mid' vol (curated by David Horowitz of the Jiminez Porter Writers House)

FREE and enjoyable, 21+, 730pm

Maida Vale, Elementary, Deville

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Capstan Shafts, Troll Tax + Downstairs DJ Retrospekt

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Invisible Hands, Andrew Cedermark, The Coastals+ Downstairs DJ Goldman and Honestlee

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Pet Parade, Art Daniels, Sal Go Shocks the Black and Blues (singer of Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb unplugged rippers)

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

The Next Big Thing Tour: featuring up and coming young bands

$15, all ages, starts at 1pm

WE FOUGHT THE BIG ONE PRESENTS: The Beets, Beach Fossil, Christmas Island

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/18+/$8

Little Bigheart and Wilderbeat, Red Sammy

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Gangland Buries its own, The Lolitas

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Ikeso Presents REBOOT: the dc hip hop takeover-- Hosted by: Reemstarr ftring the debut of DTMD w/ beatmakers Surock, Dunc, Maverick, eurok and DJs Underdog, Obrit122, eurok ALSO live art in house by: Aniekan Udofia

Doors at 9pm/21+/ $5

AFRO FUNK DANCE PARTY: w/ Elikeh! (make up show for Jan 30 snowstorm)

Show 10pm/21+/$10

La Snacks (austin), Typefighter, The Ionosphere Club, Transmography + Downstairs DJ Busca and Small Axe

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Animal Genital, Free Pop

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+

Chris Sand aka Sandman, Senayit Tomlinson, Nima Samini

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

The Last Monarchs, Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters, Kid Architect + Downstairs Fuzz w/ dj provoke

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

These Are Powers, Exactly, Sick Weapons

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

THREE CHORD COMEDY HAPPY HOUR: w/ Dave Hill

$4, 7-9pm, 21+, $2 natty bohs, and $4 rails

Screen Vinyl Image, Last Tide, Dead Leaf Echo, Ceremony + Downstairs DJ Jennder and Will Alberque

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

T-Model Ford (legendary 89-year-old blues hound from Mississippi!), The Shirks + Downstairs KingPin Soundsystem

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/18+/$12

Lowercaseletters, MGL

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Spelling For Bees (dc music collective)

$5, starts at 7pm, 21+

Woolly Moon, Bethany Disnick, Blue Pinto

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/18+/$8

Bellman Barker, The Vermillions (Fredericksburg garage-rock), The Armchairs (Philly indie-pop)

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Navi (w/ band inc. DJ-As-One), The New Retro, Watusi

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$10

(Sounds of) Kaleidoscope, Gondola, Inzinzac (Philly avant-jazz trio)

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Nunchucks, The Moons (mem. of Prabir and the Substitutes)

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Allison Miller Quartet (w/ Myra Melford, Jenny Scheinman and Todd Sickafoose)

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/18+/$8

Deleted Scenes, Savoir Adore, Grandchildren, Mon Khmer

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$8

Imperial China, Cephalopods (ex black eyes), Miracles (nyc), Busses (philly)

Doors 9pm/Show 10pm/21+/$8

Mi Ami (ex-Black Eyes, Thrill Jockey), Maximillion Dunbar, Steve Summers + downstairs Beautiful Swimmers DJing

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/21+/$7

Greg Ginn and the Texas Corrugators (you know, that guy from BLACK FUCKING FLAG), CSC Funkband (mem. of GWAR/USAISAMONSTER/Talibam!/Ostinato)

Doors 5pm/Show 6pm/18+/$10

The Styrenes: 35th Anniversary Tour (legendary '70s Cleveland art-punk band, mem. of Electric Eels and Mirrors, ROIR/Scat Records)

Doors 9pm/Show 9:30pm/18+/$10

Lair of the Minotaur (Southern Lord, brutal metal from Chicago)

Doors 7:30pm/Show 9pm/18+/$8