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The 9:30 Club

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Live Music · U Street

The 9:30 Club

4.8$$

The sound is perfect, the sightlines are genuinely good from every spot on the floor, and the cupcakes (seriously — free cupcakes on your birthday) are a weird, lovely tradition. The booking is relentless.

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