Reader- recommended and notable concerts

FRIDAY 8

Kevin Griffin 8 PM, City Winery

Winded City, Taillight Years, Oops 8 PM, Schubas

SATURDAY 9

DJ RICHARD DJ Richard’s Berlin apartment was burglarized in September 2014, and among the items taken from the home of the Rhode Island native was a computer backup that contained a nearly completed album. He did, however, manage to find a thumb drive containing his ominous ambient tune “Ejected,” which eventually became the penultimate track on this year’s Grind (Dial). The adventurous LP collects tracks that bleed into one another but sound almost radically different once you’re fully immersed in each. It’s enough to confuse Apple Music—some of Grind’s tracks are ID’d as Experimental/IDM, while others are house—and Beatport filed half of the album under the ever-ambiguous “electronica.” Grind is more about atmosphere than genre, as bits of house, noise, and ambient techno emerge from the humming, foggy synths and disappear without a trace. DJ Richard’s tranceinducing abilities are on display during the colorful percussive patchwork of “Bane”—which can propel people into a dancing stupor—as well as on tracks in where he shows off his penchant for minimalism. The eight-minute “Vampire Dub” pulses with a resounding four-on-the-floor beat, but its twinkling, cosmic synths are the real magnet.

— LEOR GALIL Galcher Lustwerk headlines; DJ Richard and Young Male open. 10 PM, Smart Bar, 3730 N. Clark, $16, $13 before midnight, $10 in advance

Kirk Knight, Alex Wiley, Hurt Everybody, Allan Kingdom,

Logan, DJ Oreo, DJ Sunny Woodz 6 PM, Metro

Vulgar Boatmen, Mooner 10 PM, Schubas

SUNDAY 10

Alright Panther, So Pretty, Glamour Hotline, Brazen Banter 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Austaras Sioum, Polyptych 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club

Hotstop, Guerilla, Freaks for Geeks 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint

MONDAY 11

Robbie Fulks 7 PM, Hideout Venom Inc., Necrophagia, Crusader, Spare Change 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club

TUESDAY 12

Bad Bad Meow, Peekabooks, Holy Motors 9:30 PM, Hideout Pyramid Scheme, Jank, Vivian K., Pine 6:30 PM, Subterranean Rats Mouth, Bloom, Glances 9 PM, Empty Bottle

WEDNESDAY 13

Lady Lamb, American Wrestlers, Grounders 9 PM, Lincoln Hall

Whitney, Wildhoney, Michael Rault, Troy Anderson 9 PM, Schubas

THURSDAY 14

The Few, Homme 8:30 PM, Constellation