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Thursday22
Miracle ConditionMoullinex, XinobiPhantogram
Friday23
Susana BacaPeter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake; Mike Reed’s People, Places & ThingsCéu Anat CohenDrop the Lime
Saturday24
Peter Brötzmann & Hamid DrakeAnat CohenStyrenesJozef Van Wissem
Tuesday27
JonsiReflection Eternal
Wednesday28
JonsiThomas Function
MOULLINEX, XINOBI Chances are if you’ve boogied somewhere too dark and too grabby at least once in the past two years, you’ve done so to a track by Xinobi and/or Moullinex—or to something that sounded just like one of them. Probably you couldn’t help yourself; no disrespect to the complicated guerrilla dance-floor tactics of electronica’s intelligentsia, but there’s something about happy genero-disco (Xinobi) and inoffensive emo-lectro (Moullinex) that shuts down the mind and sets the ass to autoreply. Bruno Cardoso and Luis Clara Gomez, as they’re otherwise known, are both Portuguese (Gomez is now based in Munich) and often DJ together; they spin here as part of the Stardust series with Jordan Z. 10 PM, Berlin, 954 W. Belmont, 773-348-4975, $7. —Liz Armstrong
SUSANA BACA Last year two of Peru’s greatest living female singers, Eva Ayllon and Susana Baca, paid tribute to Chabuca Granda, one of the grand dames of Peruvian song. Granda died in 1983, and late in her career she’d begun exploring Afro-Peruvian music, though at the time it existed at the margins of the country’s popular culture—a little like race records in the States in the 20s and 30s. Shortly before her death Granda encouraged Baca to carry that torch, and since then she’s made it her mission to preserve Afro-Peruvian folklore and traditions; her records have been dominated by Afro-Peruvian songs, and in the early 90s she and her husband founded the Instituto Negrocontinuo to support their work. Her latest release, last year’s Seis Poemas (Luaka Bop), uses relatively stripped-down arrangements well suited to the intimacy of the songs and the tenderness of her singing—on most tracks she’s backed only by hand percussion, acoustic guitar or violin, and bass. For this concert, her first in Chicago in several years, she’s supported by a trio—and in a departure from tradition, the percussionist is playing congas rather than cajon. 8 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, 773-728-6000, $28, $26 members, $24 seniors and kids. —Peter Margasak
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DROP THE LIME Producer/DJ Luca Venezia, aka Drop the Lime, no doubt lost some fans when he quit making the kind of mischievous, aggressively glitched-out electronic mayhem that endeared him to the early-aughties Tigerbeat6 scene and started making music you could actually dance to. But the significantly larger fanbase that he’s attracted since then probably provides some consolation. Over the past few years, not only has Venezia gone hard into house music—programming the same kind of four-on-the-floor beats he and his old cohorts did their best to obliterate—but he’s actually started working an updated take on vocal house, which had a decent amount of commercial success in its 90s heyday (if not a lot of critical love). But Venezia dodges a lot of the style’s cheeseball traps with a touch of his earlier aggro sound, and that’s been going over well with neo-club kids, who’re turning their attention from bloghouse—so 2007—to actual house house. Willy Joy and Black Holes open. 10 PM, Smart Bar, 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-4140, $10, $12 after midnight. —Miles Raymer
ANAT COHEN See Friday. Cohen plays a free in-store with local guitarist Andy Brown and signs copies of Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard. Noon, Borders, 150 N. State, 312-606-0750.
