Rockin' at The Ridge

songs; Brooklyn trio Nation of Language carries the torch for dark wave; JP Cooper creates smooth, sexy pop hooks; and Couch’s jazz-inflected pop is pure and uplifting. And there are the classics who want to get back to basics: Bob Mould will play a solo electric set.

Ahead of their gig at The Atlantis, New Orleans-formed indie pop duo Generationals share that the group has a long history with D.C., recording their first three albums here — “Con Law” (2009), “Actor-Caster” (2011) and “Heza” (2013) — with producer Dan Black in his D.C. studio, and attending many shows at 9:30 Club over the years, including Built to Spill and Arctic Monkeys. Touring in support of their most recent record “Heatherhead,” guitarist Ted Joyner says the latest album is “the further crystallization of our sound; the clearest, best cluster of Generationals’ songs.”

When we discuss how The Atlantis plans to carry on the mission of the original 9:30 Club, Joyner reflects, “It’s so interesting that there’s this connectivity stretching back. Maybe some of the same people will be here in this new room. The spirit of a place lives on even though scenes change and evolve, and it’s cool to be part of that.”

Hurwitz sees this all as a continuum, too, stretching back and forth throughout time and uniting music lovers, hence The Atlantis’ motto, “Where music begins.”

“Every single act in that 44 — people went to see these bands before they became big,” he says. “That’s the 9:30 Club and that’s The Atlantis, now, too.”