From Spoken Dub to Butterfly Photograms, City Paper’s Picks for This Week in D.C.

Saturday: Diles Que No Me Maten at Pie Shop This Mexico City band, which takes their name from the Juan Rulfo short story that translates to “Tell Them Not to Kill Me,” makes music that has been called everything from psychedelic to free jazz to krautrock and even the blues—all of which may be accurate, but none of which completely captures their distinct spell. Frontperson Jonás Derbez sings (and sometimes speaks) lead vocals, plays guitar and alto sax, and he leads his charges through a dramatic, hypnotic sound that resists genre categories while being completely accessible—with no small thanks to drummer Raúl Ponce’s seamless groove. The title of the group’s fourth album, Escrito en Agua (Written on Water), suggests something elusive, but the album is compelling from the simmering dirge of “Las noches que dormimos en sillas” (“The nights we slept in chairs”) to the gentle guitar jam of “Tunuwame,” named for the patron deity of singers.

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