From NYTimes.com:
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (Friday) Led by Mr. Argue, its namesake and mastermind, this postmillennial big band revisits music from some recent commissions here, including the multimedia opus “Brooklyn Babylon” and two outsourced pieces unveiled at last month’s Ecstatic Music Festival: “Three Fragments” (by Vijay Iyer) and “Conspiracy Theory” (David T. Little). Sharing the bill is Anti-Social Music, a new collective featuring musicians like the keyboardist Franz Nicolay, formerly of the Hold Steady, and the violinist Jean Cook, of Ida. At 7 p.m., Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, at Water Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, (718) 222-8500, galapagosartspace.com; $20. (Nate Chinen)
Chicago Underground Duo (Thursday) This long-running avant-garde outfit, consisting of the cornetist Rob Mazurek and the drummer Chad Taylor (along with a wealth of electronic effects), has a typically venturesome new album, “Age of Energy,” on the Northern Spy label. Also appearing are Burning Star Core, a project of the violinist C. Spencer Yeh; and the experimental guitarists Loren Connors and David Daniell. At 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, at Meeker Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 609-0484, northern-spy.com; $12. (Chinen)
Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio (Saturday) Mr. Crump, a bassist, makes the most of a two-guitar front line in his Rosetta Trio, with Liberty Ellman on nylon-stringed acoustic and Jamie Fox on electric. The group’s recent album, “Reclamation” (Sunnyside), is a collection of intimate, engrossing originals likely to crop up again here. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; cover, $20, includes one drink. (Chinen)
Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-House (Friday) Ms. Laubrock is a tenor and soprano saxophonist of experimental temperament — the name of this band, with its flat negation of shelter, feels appropriate — and she knows how to rally other musicians to her cause. As on an eponymous album released on the Intakt label last year, the group includes the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Tom Rainey, with the pianist Kris Davis as a guest. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $25 cover, includes a drink. (Chinen)
Thumbscrew (Sunday) This promising collective — with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Michael Formanek on bass and Tomas Fujiwara on drums — makes its official debut here, after working together in the rhythm section of another band. Textural experimentation is one likely outcome of many, given the broad interests of its members, who will all be contributing new music. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $20, includes one drink. (Chinen)