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.

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