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Published: Oct 14, 2008

Before they take the road with Jedi Mind Tricks, MCs Planetary and Crypt the War Child — aka Outerspace — are introducing God's Fury to the hometown crowd. The 13-track album contains personal issues that go beyond the normal rap content ("Nicko," for example, is dedicated to Crypt's son who lives with autism). They'll be performing their material this weekend, along with King Syze, Apathy and Des Devious.

—Deesha Dyer

Sat., Oct. 18, 9 p.m., $12, with Outerspace, King Syze, Apathy, Des Devious, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., northstarbar.com.

This foursome began life as the Loren Stillman Quartet, but it's hard to remain dictatorial when your subjects are as individualistic as guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor. The quartet has thus evolved into a collective group whose spacious, airy sound may stem from the unironic sweetness of Stillman's feather-light alto, but benefits from the tension of four distinct consciousnesses.

—Shaun Brady

Thu., Oct. 16, 8 p.m., free, with Kaplan/Cappelli/Merega, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., arsnovaworkshop.com.

Never before has Corcovado seemed so menacing. David Eugene Edwards' take on Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" lends an eerie foreboding to that still evening silence, one more befitting his vision of goth Americana than Tom Jobim's hushed bossa idyll. The former 16 Horsepower frontman's fifth album as Wovenhand finds him playing dirt-floor Pentecostal preacher in some western ghost town where Peter Murphy is sheriff and Nick Cave the town drunk.

—Shaun Brady

Thu., Oct. 16, 9 p.m., $12, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, r5productions.com.

A local celebration or two on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Richard Wernick (pictured) is more than appropriate. The Pulitzer Prize winner writes music of great sinew and power, and any opportunity to hear it live is welcome. But Wernick is more than a local musical figure of far-flung renown. He has been a bulwark of the local community. His main contribution has been as a teacher, at Penn, where he fostered scores of young talents, but he has also been very supportive of the live new music scene here, and for four years, guided the Philadelphia Orchestra in its commissioning of new works. He has certainly been a good friend to the Network for New Music, which will host an all-Wernick tribute (a special concert of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society) that includes a work he wrote for them, The Name of the Game. The outstanding guitarist David Starobin will be the guest artist.

—Peter Burwasser

Sun., Oct. 19, 3 p.m., $8-$16.50, Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St., 215-569-8080, philadelphiachambermusic.org.

Werner Moebius doesn't consider himself a composer but "an artist who works with sound," and it's hard to argue the point given the way he sculpts electro-acoustic elements into experiential environments, aural constructs that move as much through space as they do in time. Ensemble Noamnesia will perform an evening of the Vienna/London-based artist's work next Saturday, while his frequent collaborator Mariella Greil and Philly choreographer Emily Sweeney will perform work by Moebius and local sound artists Bilwa and Mikronesia inspired by NEXUS Gallery's exhibition of toy camera photography.

—Shaun Brady

Wed., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $5, NEXUS Gallery, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St.; Sat., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., $10, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., 215-701-4627, soundfield.org.

Heir Sitar
The Dinnerstein Variations
The Spinto Band
Reef the Lost Cauze
Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble
Remembering Christopher Tucker
Mauricio Kagel/Michael Maierhof