Pop/Rock Listings for Feb. 3-9

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Fred Armisen’s Playlist Live! (Sunday) Mr. Armisen, a agreeable punk addict of “Saturday Night Live,” offers a swell of cover songs by his favorite artists, from a Clash to Hüsker Dü, with assistance from poser guests. Dare we wish that his “Portlandia” cohort, Carrie Brownstein, will charge a theatre to slag along to some MC5, or that a Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl will assistance reprise a “SNL”-bred hard-core rope Crisis of Conformity? At 8 p.m., Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, during Meeker Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 609-0484, union-pool.com; sole out. (Stacey Anderson)

★ Björk (Friday, Monday and Thursday) This cocktail innovator’s live philharmonic for “Biophilia” (One Little Indian/Polydor) has some-more enticements than a swan dress has feathers. For her six-night residency during a New York Hall of Science, she offers soaring pendulum harps, state-of-the-art multimedia visuals, dual functioning Tesla coils, a 24-woman Icelandic choir and even a analogous monthlong scholarship curriculum for schoolchildren. The experience, and even a concomitant whiplash, should be zero brief of glorious. At 8:30 p.m., New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, (800) 745-3000, nysci.org; $75 to $150. The gymnasium opens during 6 p.m. on unison nights for displays of “Biophilia” items. (Anderson)

Action Bronson (Thursday) This veteran cook cum rapper from Queens redirects his insatiability toward a swift rhyme combination of Wu-Tang Clan and a foodie lingo (not to discuss a irascibility) of Anthony Bourdain. His full-length debut, “Dr. Lecter” (Fine Fabric Delegates), shows where his heart is in a marks “Brunch,” “Shiraz” and “Jerk Chicken.” With Kyle Rapps, Soul Khan and MFN Exquire. At 8 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, nearby Sterling Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 230-0236, spsounds.com; $15. (Anderson)

Bill Callahan (Wednesday) The bold nonetheless sad communication of Mr. Callahan served him good via a 1990s, when he available as a cult favorite Smog. Now deploring a universe underneath his birth name and progressing an equally sparse, lo-fi country-folk instrumentation, he still spun distressing tales on “Apocalypse” (Drag City) of final year. At 8:30 p.m., Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz during Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, jalc.org; $35 to $85, singular availability. (Anderson)

★ Rosanne Cash (Friday) The uncommonly cold Daughter in Black is no foreigner to a Rubin Museum; this installment of her Acoustic Cash array creates an even dozen. The attractive nation singer-songwriter will drop a toe in exemplary song with assist from a violinist-composer Mark O’Connor. At 7 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Chelsea, (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org; sole out. (Anderson)

★ Class Actress (Friday) This hook-happy cocktail troupe, led by a poignant frontwoman Elizabeth Harper, casts a synth-heavy Anglophile spell of New Order or a (much, much) happier Morrissey. Its studio debut, “Rapprocher” (Carpark), is decadent enjoyment, and a band’s Web musings on classactress.com are equally stylish, with a acquire mania over Elvis. With Pictureplane and Beige. At 8 p.m., 285 Kent, 285 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ticketfly.com; $12. (Anderson)

Javier Colon (Tuesday) For all a much-hyped sensory-deprivation gimmicks, a NBC singing foe “The Voice” has proven some-more identical than not to a pledge talent archenemy, “American Idol.” Both ambuscade their fan-elected favorites in feudal recording contracts, both dispatch their finalists on national postseason tours, and both loiter unwisely in releasing a entrance discs of their winners. Over half a year following Mr. Colon’s well-deserved victory, a seemly RB thespian has finally expelled his debut, “Come Through for You” (Universal). With Ernie Halter. At 8 p.m., Best Buy Theater, 1515 Broadway, during 44th Street, (212) 930-1950, bestbuytheater.com; $31 to $75. (Anderson)

★ The Darkness (Saturday and Monday) These corrupt glam-rockers rode general passion with their 2003 debut, “Permission to Land” (Atlantic); a widespread single, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” stays a best souped-up aria that Freddie Mercury never sang. Newly reformed after a martial breakup, they entrance songs from their as-yet-untitled stirring album. With Foxy Shazam. At 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, during 15th Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, irvingplaza.com; sole out Saturday, $29.50 on Monday. (Anderson)

David Guetta (Thursday) This French D.J.-producer’s fifth album, “Nothing though a Beat” (EMI France) of 2011, continues to have a Midas hold on American dance floors: a celebrity-laced singles, from “Without You” with Usher to “Turn Me On” with Nicki Minaj, are still de rigueur for any respectable, strobe-lighted shenanigans. He headlines a bounce-friendly Roseland with assistance from his wife, Cathy, a obvious nightlife businessman in Europe. At 9 p.m., Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, roselandballroom.com; $90 and $140 for priority access. (Anderson)

★ Jay-Z (Monday and Tuesday) How do we get to Carnegie Hall? Jay-Z has displayed a entrepreneurial maturity to sell millions of landmark hip-hop albums, run a abounding record label, regulate over a sporting and lifestyle sovereignty and marry and imitate with a associate low-pitched superstar; a rest of us can take out a debt to attend this span of advantage concerts for a United Way and a Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation. Monday during 8 p.m. and Tuesday during 9:30 p.m., Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $150 to $2,500. (Anderson)

Bobby McFerrin (Saturday) The playful, multi-octave songbird behind a 1988 pound “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” is a far-flung talent of both jazz and exemplary bent; his million-selling annals with a cellist Yo-Yo Ma and a postbop pianist Chick Corea are delightful. His live shows mix both genres with generous theatricality. At 8 p.m., Lehman Center for a Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, during Goulden Avenue, Bedford Park, a Bronx, (718) 960-8833, lehmancenter.org; $25 to $45. (Anderson)

Thurston Moore (Friday) Mr. Moore’s personal life feels inextricably related to “Demolished Thoughts” (Matador), his astonishingly slight folk manuscript of final spring; a before oblivious guitarist-singer of a good Sonic Youth scraped his approach by painful refrains and notation acoustic guitar strums. His subdivision from his longtime mother and rope mate, Kim Gordon, and a group’s unfixed interregnum now feel etched into each deplorable chord. With Rhyton. At 9 p.m., Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, N.J., (201) 653-1703, maxwellsnj.com; sole out. (Anderson)

★ Bob Mould (Thursday) The plain-spoken talent behind a 1980s grunge progenitors Hüsker Dü and a 1990s alt-pop rockers Sugar has enjoyed a diversion into electronic song recently as a co-founder of a renouned Blowoff dance parties (with Richard Morel). His entrance during a tony City Winery facilities a hook-laden, contemplative bake of his 2009 solo album, “Life and Times” (Anti-). At 8 p.m., City Winery, 155 Varick Street, nearby Spring Street, South Village, (212) 608-0555, citywinery.com; $30 to $42. (Anderson)

______ Jeans (Saturday) Not many reduction disintegrating than a name (edited here), this torpidly complicated rope from Allentown, Pa., tweaks grunge pressure with sludge-metal’s manly thrum; a outcome is a generally unholy kinship same to Mudhoney fusing with Eyehategod. Its third album, “King of Jeans” (Sub Pop), breaks a tragedy with occasional, predicting oral growls. With Ceremony, Rival Mob and more. At 5 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, nearby Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $5 in advance, or $10 during a door. (Anderson)

Kartik Seshadri (Saturday) The sitar specialist and composer is a curious, cross-genre collaborator; he has penned works with Philip Glass and a Brazilian instrumental organisation Uakti. As a former student of a princely musician Ravi Shankar, Mr. Seshadri shares a professorial hook as an teacher during a halcyon University of California, San Diego. At 8 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, during 95th Street, (212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $20 to $30. (Anderson)

Skrillex (Friday) To disgust dubstep is still to advise a passion for it — a immeasurable alleviation on final year, when a tersely bass-heavy dance genre was still fledgling in a London underground. This American writer — The Guardian journal wondered, “Is Skrillex a many hated male in dubstep?” — continues to float a extreme momentum; he was recently nominated for 5 Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, and recently expelled a pointy new EP, “Bangarang” (Big Beat/Atlantic). With Spank Rock and Zane Lowe. At 9 p.m., Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, roselandballroom.com; $45. (Anderson)

Ruben Studdard (Tuesday to Thursday, by Feb. 11) This “American Idol” leader promotes his entrance essence set, “Letters From Birmingham” (Shanachie), that includes a lead single, “June 28th (I’m Single).” Doesn’t a pretension pound of a throwaway “30 Rock” low-pitched joke, “As we know, my single, ‘My Single Is Dropping,’ is dropping”? At 8 p.m., Feinstein’s during Loews Regency, 540 Park Avenue, during 61st Street, (212) 339-4095, feinsteinsattheregency.com; $50.08 to $109.96. (Anderson)

★ Tune-Yards (Thursday) Merrill Garbus, a gold of unsettled nerves that is Tune-Yards, boasts an intelligent oddity to opposition Björk’s. Her multi-instrumental transport spans rock, Afro-pop, jazz, essence and avant-garde, and her mewling vocals bounce with furious unpredictability. Her second album, “Whokill” (4AD), clarifies this sonic firmness with moments of stripped-down folk cognisance — though they are proxy reprieves, disintegrating quickly as Ms. Garbus follows her id down another heated rabbit hole. At 8:30 p.m., Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz during Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, jalc.org; $35 to $85. (Anderson)

★ Zammuto (Saturday) This needling new experimental-rock plan from Nick Zammuto, half of a dear electro-rockers a Books, shares that duo’s inclination for tinny, enthusiastic despondency walking lines and expanded acoustics. Zammuto’s New York entrance opening will also embody unreleased Books marks and a screening of a brief film “Achantè,” an scrutiny of Haitian spell for that Mr. Zammuto contributed a score. At 8 p.m., 92YTriBeCa, 200 Hudson Street, during Canal Street, (212) 601-1000, 92ytribeca.org; $12 in advance, or $15 during a door. (Anderson)