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9 p.m. Friday, September 28, Visulite, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.$15. www.visulite.com With ties to “Fela!” (the Tony winning musical on which itsmembers served as musical directors) and a 15-year history as an influentialforce in the second wave of Afrobeat, the Daptone Records act is straddlesforward thinking and rhythmic traditions.
Stolen Babies6:30 p.m. Saturday, September 29, Tremont, 400 W. TremontAve. $10. www.etix.comTaking one page from goth-punk/metal bands like SchoolyardHeroes and another from No Doubt, this L.A. group boils it all into a sinister,noisy, circus-ready cabaret.
Garrison Starr/MaiaSharp/Adrianne Gonzalez8 p.m. Saturday, September 29, Evening Muse, 3227 N.Davidson St. $12-$15. www.eveningmuse.comThis talented trio of LGBT-friendly, folk-rock singer-songwritersfeatures Starr - the spunky tomboy, Sharp - the mature peer favorite (coveredby Cher, Dixie Chicks, Kathy Mattea and others), and Gonzalez, who fuses hervisual art and her lyrics.
Steve Forbert8 p.m. Saturday, September 29, Stage Door Theater, corner of5^th and College Streets. $22. 704-372-1000. The gravely-voice of this matter-of-fact veteran storytellerlends itself well to the lived-in, mature and sometimes playful songs aboutrelationships that populate his newest album, “Over With You.”
9^th Wonder10 p.m. Saturday, September 29, Republic, 314 N. College St. $15. www.thesolkitchen.comBeforeembarking on a three year research project as a Harvard fellow, theWinston-native, Little Brother member and acclaimed Grammy winning producerspins hip-hop classics.
Cursive8 p.m. Tuesday, October 2, Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Rd.$15-$17. www.etix.com Usually booked at much bigger venues, this rare intimate setfollows the Midwesterner’s 2012 story-driven concept album “I Am Gemini”although the group has been a fan and critical favorite since 2002’s“Domestica.”
Allen Stone8:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 2, Visulite, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.$13-$15. www.visulite.com If you’ve missed this vintage soul throwback on the latenight talk show circuit or opening for the Roots during the DNC, you’re in fora surprise. Beneath the hippie-geek look lies a killer voice that has audiencesdoing a double take.
White Rabbits8:30 p.m. Thursday, October 4, Visulite. 1615 Elizabeth Ave.$12-$15. www.visulite.com This Brooklyn (by way of the Midwest) outfit hoverssomewhere between the riffing and rhythms of Minus the Bear and the gentle(thanks to the vocals) indie-rock of Death Cab for Cutie, but with jazz rootsthat add another layer of complexity.
Curtis Salgado9 p.m. Thursday, October 4, Double Door, 1218 CharlottetownAve. $12. 704-376-1446. The 2012 Blues Music Awards soul/blues singer of the yearhas survived a 2006 liver transplant and had his second cancerous lung tumorremoved this summer, but he sounds like a youthful, driven vocalist channelingMotown and classic R&B like a male Sharon Jones.