For the past few years, the U.S. branch of the remarkably well-organized English music festival has rocked Kutsher’s Country Club, in the Catskills. This year, the action is a bit closer to home, as its offshoot series of artist-curated music and film events, “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” takes over Asbury Park, New Jersey. The lineup, which was selected by Portishead, includes the trip-hop band itself, as well as Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel), Public Enemy (who will be performing their 1990 album, “Fear of a Black Planet,” in its entirety), and some two dozen other acts. (atpfestival.com. Sept. 30-Oct. 2.)

 

THE BELL HOUSE

149 7th St., Brooklyn (718-643-6510)—Sept. 27: The sixty-nine-year-old Malian guitarist Boubacar Traoré plays haunting yet joyful desert blues. Oct. 1: The “Dig Deeper” soul-music party presents the Jamaican rocksteady legends Stranger Cole and Patsy, performing together in New York City for the first time ever. Oct. 3: The indie recording mogul Steve Albini spearheaded the Illinois trio Shellac after his influential noise band Big Black split up, in the late eighties. Albini explores the angsty, personal side of his writing with this band, though the music is still driven by chunky distorted guitars and a powerful rhythm section provided by Bob Weston on bass and Todd Trainer on drums. With the Chicago-based musician Alison Chesley, who performs intense and unique avant-rock instrumental songs on her cello under the name Helen Money.

 

BOWERY BALLROOM

6 Delancey St. (212-533-2111)—Sept. 29: Expect crunchy guitars, vintage gear, and an abundance of snarls at a procession of garage-punk royalty, featuring the Bay Area favorites Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin (who made his name as a part of the Moonhearts), along with Detroit’s Human Eye and the local lunatics K-Holes.

 

DROM

85 Avenue A, between 5th and 6th Sts. (212-777-1157)—Sept. 29: The seventh annual New York Gypsy Festival continues its strong programming with A Hawk and a Hacksaw, a New Mexico-based duo steeped in the Roma-influenced music of the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The group, founded in 2000 by the accordionist and drummer Jeremy Barnes (the onetime drummer of the indie-rock giants Neutral Milk Hotel), traces its genesis to a purchase Barnes made of several Romanian albums in a thrift store in a Slavic neighborhood in Chicago, in the late nineties. Though he initially bought the records for their intriguing covers, he quickly became obsessed with their sound. Since then, he and his cohort, the violinist Heather Trost, have performed with many superb Roma musicians around the world and lived in Budapest for a time to be closer to the musical source. The ecstatic and affecting “Cervantine,” their most recent record, focusses on the music of Greece, Macedonia, and Bulgaria and features mariachi touches and other traces of the duo’s Southwestern home. With the Minneapolis-based chamber-folk group Dark Dark Dark and the hypnotic droning of the trio Pillars and Tongues. (For more information, visit nygypsyfest.com.)

 

HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM

311 W. 34th St. (800-745-3000)—Oct. 4-5: The powerful electronic trio Portishead return from the U.K. for a highly anticipated tour in support of their third album, appropriately titled “Third.”

 

IRIDIUM

1650 Broadway, at 51st St. (212-582-2121)—Sept. 28-29: Adrian Belew met the drummer Eric Slick and the bassist Julie Slick, a brother-sister rhythm section, about five years ago at the School of Rock, in Philadelphia. Their jamming led to the formation of the Adrian Belew Power Trio, which has been an on-and-off working group, playing the guitarist’s complex stop-and-go compositions. Also on the bill is another heavy threesome, Stick Men, with Pat Mastelotto on drums and Tony Levin and Michael Bernier each playing versions of the Chapman Stick, an incredibly versatile guitar-bass hybrid. Belew, Levin, and Mastelotto worked together in the three-hundred-and-forty-first edition of King Crimson and are promising a massive Crimson finale uniting both trios. Paging Mr. Fripp?

 

IRVING PLAZA

17 Irving Pl. (212-777-6800)—Sept. 30-Oct. 1: The acclaimed Los Angeles punk forerunners X have been active since the mid-seventies, and their fast, loud music has evolved into a blend of countrified rock and roll. This tour marks a return to their punk roots, though. All the original members will be performing their first album, “Los Angeles,” in its entirety, along with a smattering of career-spanning fan favorites. The show will open with a screening of the documentary “X: The Unheard Music.” Oct. 3: The British rock band the Psychedelic Furs was a New Wave powerhouse; its 1981 song “Pretty in Pink” was used as the title of one of John Hughes’s blockbuster movies. The Tom Tom Club, founded by former members of the Talking Heads, always placed an emphasis on infectious dance-club hits. The Australian-American duo Maniac opens.

 

KNITTING FACTORY

361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn (347-529-6696)—Sept. 28: London’s Factory Floor, a polished post-industrial trio renowned for hypnotic hard techno and disco, is on the East Coast for the few days surrounding this Saturday’s Portishead-curated “All Tomorrow’s Parties”“I’ll Be Your Mirror” Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Live, Factory Floor employs drums, spiky synths, and droning, Nico-esque vocals from the singer Nik Colk. The sound owes as much to Steve Reich’s cyclic minimalism as it does to the Fall’s menacing, derelict post-punk.

 

LIVING ROOM

154 Ludlow St. (212-533-7237)—Oct. 2-30: Spottiswoode & His Enemies begin a monthlong Sunday residency here, and it’ll take about a month to explore the many facets of Jonathan Spottiswoode’s music. For the first installment, the English singer-songwriter, who’s been part of the New York music scene for more than a decade, will concentrate on the weird and folkie side of things, calling on Tony Lauria (accordion) and Riley McMahon (mandolin). Also on the bill throughout the residency are the Silos, a New York rock band formed in 1985 and still led by one of its co-founders, Walter Salas-Humara.

 

MERCURY LOUNGE

217 E. Houston St. (212-260-4700)—Sept. 29: The minimal British hard-techno band Factory Floor (see the Knitting Factory).

 

MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG

66 N. 6th St., Brooklyn (718-486-5400)—Sept. 29: An evening of fearsome female-fronted noise-rock, headlined by the yelping avant-shredder Marnie Stern, who is finishing up a quick jaunt through the East Coast before she heads to California, and then Australia. She’s brought the Québécois grunge-poppers No Joy along for the ride, a band that likes to perform its fuzzy shoegaze at such high volumes that you may find yourself seeking medical attention after the show.

 

THE NEW YORK BURLESQUE FESTIVAL

The ninth annual celebration of the seductive arts features more than a hundred and twenty musical acts, costumed dancers, and circus performers. Highlights include appearances by Lady Gaga’s trumpeter Brian Newman, a jazz musician of many hats; the dancer extraordinaire Angie Pontani, who will emerge from a six-foot rhinestone-encrusted oyster shell; the Italian television star Dixie Ramone; and Japan’s Cherry Typhoo. Prizes will be given at the Oscars-style Golden Pastie Awards hosted by the notoriously deadpan bicoastal burlesque m.c. Miss Astrid. (The festival takes place at various venues; for more information, visit thenewyorkburlesquefestival.com. Sept. 29-Oct. 2.)

 

ROSELAND

239 W. 52nd St. (877-598-8694)—Sept. 30: The veteran Lollapalooza stars Primus bring their bass-heavy avant-rock to town. The work found on their latest album, “Green Naugahyde,” has a party-funk vibe reminiscent of the music of Parliament Funkadelic enhanced by an Eastern flair.

 

SPY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Northern Spy Records, a local, artist-run enterprise staffed with émigrés from the venerable experimental label ESP-Disk, celebrates its first birthday by holing up in North Brooklyn for the weekend. Shea Stadium (20 Meadow St. sheastadiumbk.blogspot.com) hosts an eclectic program on Oct. 1, which includes the off-kilter Chicago pop band Bird Names, the avant-prog rockers Zs, and the Colin L. Orchestra, a minimal country-rock band fronted by Colin Langenus of the now defunct USAISAMONSTER. On Oct. 2, the festival continues at Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave. zebuloncafeconcert.com) with performances from the downtown jazz act Spanish Donkey, the guitarist Ben Greenberg’s spectral prog solo act Hubble, and Angels in America, a duo that crafts zoned-out, lo-fi folk. (For more information, visit northern-spy.com)

 

WEBSTER HALL

125 E. 11th St. (212-353-1600)—Sept. 28: Laura Marling and Alessi’s Ark. Born in Hampshire, Marling was recently named Best Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards. Her latest album, her third, is called “A Creature I Don’t Know,” and it employs a flow of words that drives the rhythm at least as strongly as the guitar and drums do. Alessi’s Ark, which is the stage name of London’s Alessi Laurent-Marke, takes a more ethereal approach. Even a bubblegum warhorse like Lesley Gore’s “Maybe I Know”—from her new album, “Time Travel”—takes on a mystical cast when she warbles it.

 

THE WELLMONT THEATRE

5 Seymour St. (973-783-9500)—Oct. 3: The gorgeous guitar rock of Austin’s Explosions in the Sky.