Reader-recommended and notable concerts

FRIDAY6

City & Colour, Hurray for the Riff Raff 7 PM, Metro Colin Hay 8 PM, the Vic New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Tigers Jaw 7 PM, Concord Music Hall Trio Leimgruber/Demierre/Lonberg-Holm 8:30 PM, Constellation

SATURDAY7

WAND Shape-shifting LA band Wand recently dropped their third album in just over a year, another breathless sprint of warped psychedelia with no allegiance to any style beyond its own unique strain of wigginess. Leader Cory Hanson continues to exhibit restless creativity and curiosity, and on the new 1000 Days (Drag City) he gleefully digs further into electronics, layering synth lines to gild fuzzed-out guitar reveries. The instrumental “Dovetail” reaches back toward the sound of Kosmische but still sounds contemporary, its bubbling groove fraught with tension as ominous noise slithers and slides over the beats. With each record Hanson’s melodies become more irresistible, sci-fi-inspired hallucinations—sung in a shimmering glam falsetto—about a world in which we’re increasingly powerless. I mostly have no idea what he’s going on about, but as with the title track, the hooks are so strong and the arrangements so beguiling it hardly matters. I don’t know how long Hanson can maintain this crazy growth spurt; for now, though, it’s one of rock’s most exciting rides in a long time. —PETER MARGASAK Perfume and Melkbelly open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $12, $10 in advance.

Bodeans 8 PM, Symphony Center Ellery Eskelin, Josh Berman, and Jason Roebke; Ellery Eskelin 8:30 PM, Constellation The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Foxing, TTNG, Brightside 6 PM, Subterranean Yonder Mountain String Band, Henhouse Prowlers 8 PM, House of Blues

SUNDAY8

Akiyama/Kahn/Nakamura/Eubanks 8:30 PM, Constellation Blind Guardian, Grave Digger 8 PM, Concord Music Hall Don Henley 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre My Body Sings Electric, Inventors 8 PM, Beat Kitchen

MONDAY9

Jill Andrews 8 PM, Schubas Diana & the Dishes 8 PM, Martyrs’ Robbie Fulks & Shad Cobb 7 PM, Hideout

TUESDAY10

Beirut, Icy Demons 8 PM, Riviera Theatre White Mystery, Boytoy, Joe Bordenaro 9 PM, Empty Bottle

WEDNESDAY11

Indian Handcrafts, Greys, RLYR 7:30 PM, Beat Kitchen Jojo, Aaron Camper 7:30 PM,Lincoln Hall Joyeux, Dance Bullies 9 PM, Martyrs’

THURSDAY12

Nikki Lane 8 PM, Double Door

Ryn Weaver 7:30 PM, Park West