Music on a Worldwide Scale
Thursday, January 18, 2007; Page C13
Global sounds will fill the darkened halls of several venues and bars over the next week, as Chopteeth headlines a Darfur awareness event, the Dears show us the reason they're among the stars of the Great Maple Leaf Explosion, and a dance party at Cafe Saint-Ex hits all the Norse notes of the past few decades.
Tonight, 14-piece fusion outfit Chopteeth; DJ Thick, with electronic and drum compositions; and Elikeh, a Togolese afropop band, play the Afrofunk Forum show at DC9, raising money for the Save Darfur Coalition. $10. 9 p.m. 1940 Ninth St. NW. 202-483-5000.
  Chopteeth is on the lineup for tonight's Afrofunk Forum at DC9. The event is a fundraiser for the Save Darfur Coalition. (By Tom Carrico) |
The Dears , a sullen pop outfit from Montreal that echoes Radiohead in its theatrics, gets more comparisons to the Brits than they do to, say, uber-Canadians the Arcade Fire, but listen closely and the hushed similarities reveal themselves. The Dears are at the 9:30 club on Saturday. $15. 815 V St. NW. 800-955-5566.
And no joke: Hej Hej , a dance party dedicated to the rocking sounds of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark, is at Saint-Ex on Wednesday. Which means you'll be shaking it to those groups you don't usually hear at pubs on 14th Street -- Figurines, Serena-Maneesh, Sugarcubes and Jens Lekman included. Free. 10 p.m. 1847 14th St. NW. 202-265-7839.
-- Lavanya Ramanathan
