Journopalooza is this Friday. (Buy tickets!) As a result, get ready to see this post a lot…

Interested in seeing my band, The Surge, as well as a host of other D.C. journalists’ bands? Like Nobody’s Business, which features McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay, one of the only reporters to get the Iraqi-non-WMD-non-al-Qaeda-connection story right? Or Anchorage, a talented powerpop group fueled by the Washington Post‘s Terrence Henry? Or Suspicious Package, the rock-standards cover band supergroup, the set claimed by the Post‘s Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Tom Toles, the LA Times‘ Josh Meyer and Bloomberg’s Tim Burger, among others (Bryan Greene and Christina Sevilla!)? Lucky you! Tickets for Journopalooza — January 9 at the National Press Club — are on sale starting tomorrow.

Two things about this. One, it’s for a good cause — the Committee to Protect Journalists’ program to aid our colleagues in war zones and closed nations. Second, it’s a battle. A battle of the bands. And I intend to kick the living musical shit out of Suspicious Package. In the overall contest, we could win, we could lose. It matters not. What matters is you leave the show acknowledging that The Surge is better than Suspicious Package. I throw down this gauntlet right now.

Speaking of Suspicious Package, you should check out their show tonight at DC9, around 8:3. They’re good! Really. I mean that. Utmost sincerity. Even though we’re going to Ja Rule their asses.