Journopalooza: today is the day. 7:15 doors at the National Press Club, 14th & F Streets NW. You can buy tickets in advance from the website to make sure. But here’s that much-reposted post.

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.

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.