1. The great ’60s Brazilian rock group Os Mutantes became the band to reference for arty indie musicians in the ’90s. The band reunited in recent years and has just unleashed its first studio album since 1974, Haih or Amortecedor. (Saying that three times fast offers an experience similar to listening to the band’s music.) Tonight, the Mutantes play Webster Hall.
2. International country star Keith Urban headlines Madison Square Garden. (Read our preview here.)
3. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney brings his side project, Drummer, to Southpaw. (Read our preview here.)
4. Classy pianist Bill Charlap plays Village Vanguard with his trio.
5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Giants Stadium. Enough said.
Drummer, a new anonymously named band with a starry connection, includes Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney. But maybe even more intriguing is the pedigree of the rest of the group. Axmen Jamie Stillman and Jon Finley hail from The Party of Helicopters, a defunct outfit from the Keys’ home state of Ohio. POH, which has played a few reunion shows here and there but isn’t properly active, was a hell of a band—its singular blend of emo-inflected indie rock and Fucking Champs–style shred deserved a much wider audience than it garnered. Fortunately, that incendiary mixture is also on display in Drummer. Here’s the title track from the band’s debut, Feel Good Together, due September 29 on Carney’s Audio Eagle imprint.