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On a tour the band hints will be its last, Stiff Little Fingers recaptures the late-’70s punk rage (now, perhaps, obsolete) of “Alternative Ulster”; on its latest album, Death R Us, Battalion of Saints warns that “Hell Is Around the Next Corner”—and sounds as if it has the velocity to make the turn. With Monorchid at 9:30 p.m. at the Black Cat, 1831 14th St. NW. $10. (202) 667-7960. (MJ)