Linkin Park and 30 Seconds to Mars play US Airways Center in a week that also features metro Phoenix shows by Porter Robinson, Los Lobos and Old Crow Medicine Show.
9/9: She Keeps Bees
These bluesy Brooklyn rockers are blessed with a powerful presence on lead vocals -- Jessica Larrabee, whose is as effective delivering sultry half-whispers as letting it wail, most often in the course of one track, including such obvious highlights of "Dig On" as "Saturn Return" and "Farmer." Larrabee has been compared to PJ in the New York Times and you can definitely hear made them reach for Harvey as a frame of reference.
Details: 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8. Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix. $10; $8 in advance. 602-265-4842, psykosteve.com.
9/9: Estafets
They're from Washington state and it shows in the screaming intensity that courses through the strongest tracks on the "All is Forgotten" EP, recalling the best of the riot-grrrl scene that flourished in Washington state (and Portland, Oregon) in the early '90s. You'll find no riot grrrls cited on their Facebook page as inspirations, though, so maybe that's not what they're going for. What matters is "All is Forgotten" won't be soon forgotten once you've heard it.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. Trunk Space, 1506 N.W. Grand Ave., Phoenix. 602-256-6006, thetrunkspace.com.
9/10: Linkin Park
Their debut album, "Hybrid Theory," is one of the most successful rock releases of the past two decades, a 10-times-platinum smash that spawned their highest-charting entry on the Hot 100, "In the End," which peaked at No. 2. And they've topped the alternative-songs chart several times since then, with hits as huge as "Numb," "Numb/Encore" (with Jay-Z), the triple-platinum "What I've Done," the double-platinum "New Divide" and "Burn It Down."
Details: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. US Airways Center, Second and Jefferson streets, Phoenix. $57.25-$98.25. 800-745-3000, livenation.com.
9/10: Porter Robinson
This is Robinson's first appearance in the Valley since the Sound Wave music festival last September. Rolling Stone magazine named him one of the 25 DJs that rule the earth and he's touring a brilliant new album called "Worlds," on which the Chapel Hill, S.C., EDM producer appears to have taken the title of a track called "Sad Machine" as a statement of purpose. He sounds like the saddest machine alive on several of the album's strongest tracks.
Details: 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. Marquee Theatre, 730 N. Mill Ave., Tempe. $32. 480-829-0607, luckymanonline.com.
9/10: Salif Keita
Known as the Golden Voice of Africa, this Afro-pop artist for from Mali is touring an album called "Talé," on which he takes the traditional griot music of his Malian childhood and combines it with not only other West African influences but touches as adventurous as disco strings and a sample of the B-52's first album.
Details: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix. $44.50-$52.50. 480-478-8000, mim.org.
9/10: The Band of Heathens
The opening track on Band of Heathens' aptly titled "Sunday Morning Record" is classic alternative-country with an aching melody that could have topped the Billboard Hot 100 had it only been released in 1970. It's timeless, really, and the perfect introduction to an album that should speak to anyone who's watched "The Last Waltz" or seen Son Volt more than once.
Details: 8 p.m. Wendesday, Sept. 10. Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix. $15; $12 in advance. 602-265-4645, statesidepresents.com.
9/12: Los Lobos
They may be best remembered in the mainstream as the guys who did the soundtrack to "La Bamba." But those Ritchie Valens covers barely scratch the surface of a decades-long career that's seen their scope expanding from the roots-revival moves of their earliest efforts through the artistry of "Kiko" to the richly textured triumph of their latest effort, "Tin Can Trust."
Details: 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Vee Quiva Hotel & Casino, 15091 S. Komatke Lane, Gila River Reservation. $30 in advance; $35 day of show. 800-946-4452, wingilariver.com.
9/13: Earth
More doom than metal, "Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 2" is hypnotic, instrumental stoner-rock that settles into one mood early and sustains it, wandering through the sludge and post-rock ambience over the course of five tracks, two of which exceed 11 minutes. And "Sigil of Brass" is a great way to kick off the album, Dylan Carson's haunting guitar riff getting lost in conversation with Lori Goldston's cello.
Details: 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13. Yucca Tap Room, 29 W. Southern Ave., Tempe. $13. 480-967-4777, yuccatap.com.
9/14: Old Crow Medicine Show
The Grammy-winning old-time string-band revivalists have been cited by Mumford & Sons as a formative source of inspiration. Their best-known song is "Wagon Wheel," their fleshing out of an oft-bootlegged sketch of a song by the great Bob Dylan. The Old Crow version has gone platinum, inspiring a triple-platinum cover by Darius Rucker, whose version topped the country charts.
Details: 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St. $25-$35. 480-644-6500, mesaartscenter.com.
9/14: Fayuca
These reggae-loving local punks cite RX Bandits and Sublime as inspirations. Toss in Operation Ivy, the SoCal punk of Bad Religion and the Clash of "Sandinista!," and you'd have a pretty good idea what these guys were after on their two most recent efforts, "The Assassination" and "Barrio Sideshow."
Details: 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14. Last Exit Live, 717 S. Central Ave., Phoenix. $12; $10 in advance. 602-271-7000, lastexitlive.com.
9/14-15: Sarah Jarosz
Signed to Sugar Hill Records at 16, this Austin-based Americana multi-instrumentalist was hailed in MOJO as "newgrass prodigy." Her latest album, last year's "Build Me Up From Bones," offsets the virtuosic newgrass picking with a flair for haunted balladry.
Details: 7 p.m. Sunday-Monday, Sept. 14-15, Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix. $32.50-$37.50. 480-478-8000, mim.org.
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495. Twitter.com/EdMasley
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