* Balkan jazz by the Balkanics at the Slavic Soul Party! in Alexandria. $17.50, 7:30pm at 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave. [Birchmere]

* Jinxed at 12 is headed to that great, big, all-ages punk show in the sky after they play their final show tonight at the Cat. $8, 9pm on the Backstage. [Black Cat]

* "Fame hasn't changed the character of the group: They've always been nothing but happy with their 80s niche, and haven't tried to vainly re-create themselves as the years went by." If you happen to be a 40-year-old nostalgic or an archetypical yuppie serial killer, this is the show for you. Tickets start at $22, 8pm. [Wolftrap]

* Take your mother to hear English Patient author Michael Ondaatje reads from his new book Divisadero. Free, 7pm at Politics and Prose. [P&P]