Mike Hicks took some photos of Mucca Pazza at 9:30 Club. See the slideshow here.

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A year ago, True Womanhood was loud and scuzzy, with earsplitting reverb that thrashed and ricocheted around the stage. But earlier this year, Thomas Redmond Jr. and Noam Eisner decided to go fully electronic, writing moombahton-inspired songs like “Minajah” and covering and remixing tracks by the Denver-based electronic artist Pictureplane. True Womanhood’s version of “Dark Rift” was typically gloomy, but with sharpened vocals and a reassembled beat that won the band plenty of new admirers, including Pictureplane himself, who said, “No one has ever covered my music this well before.” Now living in New York, True Womanhood comes home to open for fashionable local band U.S. Royalty. The headliner’s Morricone-tinged bucolics are a bit too reminiscent of The Killers’ Sam’s Town, but perhaps the Thornley brothers will dispense a few tips on how to dress like Rumours-era Lindsey Buckingham. —Benjamin R. Freed

True Womanhood performs with U.S. Royalty and Birdlips at 8 p.m. at the 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $15. 

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A lot has changed in the year since doll-haired Australian chanteuse Sia Furler postponed the tour behind her latest release, We Are Born, due to her struggle with Graves’ disease. For one, she got healthier and more confident behind a flood of support at home and abroad. She also landed a gig working with collaborator Christina Aguilera as the pop star judged divas-in-training on American Idol clone The Voice. Despite her flirtations with the karaoke set, Sia’s evocative jazz-pop and strange-girl-next-door schtick—think a more eccentric Robyn ditching electro-pop for ornate, Kate Bush-derived freak-folk—has collaborated with artists ranging from Jamiroquai to Beck to Zero 7. Nevertheless, with a voice that makes for some seriously odd and cathartic moments, Sia seems most comfortable in the technicolor world of her own making. —Mike Kuntz

Sia performs with Oh Land and Ximena Sariñana at 7 p.m. at the 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25 (sold out). 930.com. 

Erica Bruce brings us joy via-photograph with her set from Tuesday’s Girl Talk show at the 9:30 Club. What this photo doesn’t illustrate: the amount of sweat-soaked and really smelly people up in that place. See the rest of the photos at WCP.