YACHT: An acronym for Young Americans Challenging High Technology, YACHT muses on the paranormal on its excellent 2009 album, “See Mystery Lights” (DFA), floating through the cosmos one minute on a bed of densely layered electronics and embracing the unknown with exuberant pop melodies the next, 10 p.m. Saturday at Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Av., $12; ticketweb.com.

Tinariwen: This band of nomadic West Africans plays a trance-inducing brand of guitar music, underpinned by loping beats and elevated by call-and-response vocals. Call it desert psychedelia, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday at Old School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Av., $24 and $28; oldtownschool.tix.com.