TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

New Orleans native Big Freedia helped popularize bounce music, her city’s energetic style of hip-hop that borrows from the call-and-response tradition of Mardi Gras Indian chants. This year, Freedia started a charity, Bounce UP, that aims to help the well-being of kids in the Crescent City. Her latest release, 3rd Ward Bounce, is a 2018 EP that features Lizzo, Erica Falls, and Goldiie. 9:30 Club. 7 p.m. doors. $25. All ages, accessible venue.

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is a mouthful of a name befitting an emo band that sound like an atmospheric, experimental fusion of …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Explosions in the Sky, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The band just released the 20-song odds and ends collection Assorted Works. Songbyrd Music House. 7 p.m. doors. 8 p.m. show. $18. All ages, inaccessible space.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

Everything about J.S. Ondara screams old soul, from his vintage, bespoke suits and hats to his simple, guy-with-a-guitar folk songs. The Kenyan native, who moved to America after winning a green card lottery in 2013, started out playing covers on YouTube before releasing his expressive, powerful debut album Tales of America earlier this year. Sixth & I. 7 p.m. doors. 8 p.m. show. $20-$25. All ages, accessible venue.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

In the past, Umphrey’s McGee has used Halloween as an excuse to mash up cover songs (example: “National Loser Anthem,” which blends Radiohead’s “The National Anthem” with Beck’s “Loser” and Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”). This year, the proggy jam band is ditching that gimmick in favor of something new (and as-yet-unannounced). You can, however, expect the sextet, which released two albums last year, to wear costumes and bust out some covers at The Anthem. 5:30 p.m. doors. 7 p.m. show. $35-$75. All ages, accessible venue.

If Halloween to you signals trick-or-treating in a garage-laden suburban enclave, then perhaps this U Street Music Hall bill of Southern-bred garage rock bands will put you in that suburban state of mind. Kentucky’s White Reaper, which dropped You Deserve Love earlier this month, headlines with support from fellow Louisville rockers Wombo and buzzy North Carolina boogie-woogie band The Nude Party. 6:30 p.m. doors. $20. All ages, accessible venue.

British indie rock band Amber Run hasn’t said if the band has any tricks in store for its Halloween gig, so perhaps the band’s Black Cat show in support of new record Philophobia is your best chance to escape the costumes, candy, and general spookiness Oct. 31 brings. 7:30 p.m. doors. $20-$25. All ages, accessible venue.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

DJ/producer Kindness spent a good chunk of this year opening for Robyn, whom he’s collaborated with (notably on “Send to Robin Immediately”). Kindness has also worked with Solange and turned alt rock band The Replacements’ “Swingin’ Party” into a dark synth anthem. His new LP, Something Like a War, dropped in September. U Street Music Hall. 7 p.m. doors. $20. All ages, accessible venue.

Veteran jazz trio The Bad Plus just released Activate Infinity, the group’s second album of 2019. Like August’s Never Stop II, the new record is driven by the equally propulsive playing of bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Orrin Evans, and drummer Dave King. City Winery. 6 p.m. doors. 8 p.m. show. $35-$40. All ages, accessible venue.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Rockville-bred rapper Logic will (sorta) come home to play his biggest local show to date: A headlining spot at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax. Logic released his feature-heavy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in May, marking his third straight album to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s albums chart. 7:30 p.m. show. $39.99-$79.99. All ages, accessible venue.

Dark, gloomy 1980s-style synths loom heavily on Angel Olsen’s latest album All Mirrors, which may be the North Carolina-based singer-songwriter’s most personal album yet. The tour behind the record brings Olsen to the Lincoln Theatre for two shows on Friday and Saturday. 6:30 p.m. doors. 8 p.m. shows. Friday sold out. Saturday $35. All ages, accessible venue.

D.C.-based reggae collective Shamans of Sound head up a triple-bill that includes opening sets from Kenny and Anthony Pirog’s D.C. punk rock project Wanted Man and Richmond rock/reggae act Space Koi. DC9. 8:30 p.m. doors. 9 p.m. show. All ages, inaccessible space.

Big K.R.I.T. has been steadily building a following through mixtapes and studo albums over the past decade. The Mississippi rapper, who has a flow reminiscent of OutKast’s Big Boi, dropped his fourth studio record K.R.I.T. Iz Here, which serves as a sequel to his 2010 mixtape K.R.I.T. Wuz Here, back in July. Fillmore Silver Spring. 7 p.m. doors. 8 p.m. show. $27.50. All ages, accessible venue.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Masked surf rock act Los Straitjackets has been working as Nick Lowe’s backing band in recent years, which makes sense: The group recorded a tribute to Lowe in the form of 2017’s “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love And …” At Pearl Street Warehouse, Los Straitjackets will be back to playing the band’s original tunes alongside covers of old-school rock and soul songs. 6 p.m. doors. 7 p.m. show. 21+, accessible venue.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Veteran indie rockers Superchunk will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Foolish—the band’s first full-length on Merge Records, the label two members founded—by stripping things down for an acoustic set at an unlikely venue: The Birchmere. Eclectic singer-songwriter Torres will open with a solo set. 6 p.m. doors. 7:30 p.m. show. All ages, accessible venue.