We'll call it hit or miss. Some weeks are totally on and our agenda's are filled to the brim with great stuff. Some weeks we're pulling together a bunch of shows and thinking that the list of "go see" music is surprisingly spare. Just like the weather is wonderful an warm some weeks and gloomy others. This week we've collected a number of selections that will bring some sunshine to your gloomy day - or bring a dark cloud to clear, calm, and cool. Take your pick the list is a good one, Bostonist has a full agenda this week.

Tuesday, April 4
Certainly, Sir
More of the Rumble - Certainly, Sir's electropop is as cool as their website. With Appomattox, and Casey Desmond.
Middle East Downstairs
18+ $9 8pm
Certainly, Sir: myspace | How You Been.mp3 | purchase

Centro-matic
Will Johnson has been through town solo a few times, but comes with his band Centro-Matic this time. With Great Lake Swimmers and Drew O'Doherty.
Great Scott
18+ 9pm $10
Centro-matic: myspace |Calling Thermatico.mp3 | purchase

Blackalicious with Fatlip and Lifesavas
Progressive hip hop legends Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab co-founded Solesides back in the early '90s and are currently a highlight of the red hot Bay Area hip hop scene."What's up Fatlip?" Well, his new album, The Loneliest Punk finally dropped in November, Spike Jonze directed his latest video, and this former Pharcyde MC is always fun. With Portland's Lifesavas.
Paradise Rock Club
18+ 8PM, $18 / $20 dos
Blackalicious: website | myspace | purchasepowers.mp3 | my pen and pad.mp3
Fatlip: myspace | purchase | website | myspace

Six Degrees Night
Premiere world electronica & dub label Six Degrees Records (Los Mocosos, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, Michael Franti, dZihan & Kamien, Bebel Gilberto, etc) sponsors a spin (with give-a-ways) at the Enormous Room. Hosted by DJ B.
Enormous Room
Karsh Kale: manifest.mp3 (from Six Degrees website)

Pablo Menendez with Osmany Paredes
Best known as the founder of Afro-Cuban / Yoruba / jazz-rock group Mezcla ("mixture"), U.S. born, Havana-based guitarist Pablo Menendez brings his septet to Berklee. Carlos Santana once said "to me, [PabloMenendez] and Mezcla is the cleanest, freshest water I have ever tasted" (remember, there was a time when Carlos was actually hip).
Regattabar
$15, 7:30PM
website | purchase

Wednesday, April 5
Neko Case & Martha Wainwright
There's something about Neko Case's voice that makes you think you're someplace smoky and un-Bostonian, and from there you might get in your truck and drive all night, or go to a party and break several hearts in quick succession, or commit some sort of armed felony. Bostonist has been enjoying the smoldering Ms. Case's gorgeous, just-released Fox Confessor Brings The Flood and looking forward to hearing her country songs with vivid weirder-than-country lyrics at the Roxy, with Martha Wainwright, Rufus's adorable sister, in tow.
The Roxy
8:30 pm, 18+, $20
Neko Case: web site | Star Witness .mp3 | If You Knew .mp3
Martha Wainwright: website | Bloody Motherfucking Asshole .mp3

Thursday, April 6
Monty Alexander Trio featuring Junior Jazz
Jamaican by birth, pianist Monty Alexander has worked not only with the likes of jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and Quincy Jones, but also reggae luminaries Ernest Ranglin, Sly Dunbar, and Robbie Shakespeare. In 1999, Alexander recorded Stir It Up, a well received tribute to Bob Marley. Catch him perform music from his just released follow-up: Concrete Jungle, the Music of Bob Marley. With Junior Jazz (vocals, guitar), Hassan Shakur (bass), and Herlin Riley (drums).
Regattabar
$28, 7:30PM & 10PM
website

Barkan Quartet
As the Ryles website notes, Boston-based "pianist Gilad Barkan's music draws from jazz, Brazilian and African rhythms, and sounds of his Israeli homeland." All About Jazz said that Barkin's playing stands alongside the work of Brad Mehldau and early Bill Evans. Featuring Amir Milstein (flute), South African bassist John Lockwood and drummer Eric Doob.
Ryles Jazz Club
$10, 9PM
paul's groove.mp3 (clip) | modulation.mp3 (clip) | website | purchase

Friday, April 7
The Westward Trail
Bill's Bar. WFNX's New England Product presents synth-rock duo the Westward Trail, faux-german Porches on the Autobahn, and Jarvis Cocker-inspired Texas Governor.
9pm 21+ $5
The Westward Trail: myspace | Recognition Systems.mp3 | purchase

Wolf Parade
If you haven’t already gotten tickets to this show, don’t give up hope that friendly indie kids are willing to get rid of extra tickets at face value. If you still can’t make it, read last year’s review, watch their new video on MySpace, and don’t let your hangover ruin a potentially good weekend.
Paradise
SOLD OUT
Myspace

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
If you want to see Karen O "Show [her] Bones" at the Orpheum Friday, you best hurry. A few tickets are still available. Amid reports that Nick, Brian and Karen O's raw sound had become a tad bit more, uh, refined, with some of the jagged edges polished off, Bostonist approached the YYY's new album with a bit of trepidation. But our fears were allayed once the needle hit the groove, so to speak.
Orpheum Theater
$25, 7:30
myspace | website

Eclectic Collective "Time Flies" CD release party.
This 9 piece group mixes hip hop, R&B, soul, and indie rock with aplomb. Bostonist loved the band's recent Middle East show and Paradise gig opening for Digable Planets in November. With 8 piece Audible Mainframe, "Boston's premiere hip hop band," and Project Move.
Harper's Ferry
21+ 8PM
Eclectic Collective: myspace | website
Audible Mainframe: myspace | purchase
Project Move: myspace| purchase

Olu Dara
Olu Dara's work is steeped in African music and the blues of the Mississippi Delta (with a bit of funk and reggae thrown in for good measure). He's also a veteran of the Henry Threadgill Sextet and David Murray Quartet and recorded with others on legendary '80s hip hop / jazz-funk / world music label Celluloid Records. Oh, and his son is rapper Nas (Dara performed on Nas' Illmatic and Street's Disciple albums). With Kwatei Jones-Quartey (guitar), Coster Massamba (percussion), Alonzo Gardner (bass), and Larry Johnson (drums).
Regattabar
$24, 7:30PM & 10PM
purchase

Saturday, April 8
Ropeadope's What is Jazz? Christian McBride Band, Charlie Hunter Trio & DJ Logic
Bostonist has seen DJ Logic each of the 6 times he's been in town in as many years (we're big fans). URB magazine noted that Logic "fronts chunky hip-hop beat slinging, knob-twisting dub, and chaotic sound sculpting -- sonic trademarks that've made him the man to call when jazz cats want to tap into the hip-hop zeitgeist." And now you can check out this turntablist extraordinaire as he joins fellow ropeadope stars Christian McBride (one of the best bassists around) and
Charlie Hunter (T.J. Kirk, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy) for a special night at Berklee (their gig @ Tonic in NYC will be released as a 3 CD set). Jazz event of the year (thus far).
Berklee Performance Center
$20 & $25, 7:30PM, all seats reserved
DJ Logic: myspace | website | sonic thrust.mp3
Christian McBride: website
Charlie Hunter: website | Aunt Jemima's Revenge.mp3 | more mp3s purchase

Happy Endings featuring Project Jenny, Project Jan
Can New York’s Project Jenny, Project Jan bring a night of eclectic rock to the conclusion worthy of the party’s name?
Paradise Lounge
Doors 9PM 18+ $5
Project Jenny, Project Jan: website
http://www.projectjennyprojectjan.com/

Olu Dara
see Friday, April 7 listing above

Sunday, April 9
Regina Spektor
"Soviet Kitsch" anti-folk / punk chanteuse Regina Spektor graces Axis.
$12, All Ages, 7PM
myspace | website

Kronos Quartet & Asha Bhosle Songs from R. D. Burman's Bollywood
You had to get your tickets early (and spend some change) to gorge on this "musical masala of eras and cultures." It makes sense that contemporary / experimental chamber music gods Kronos Quartet, known for interpreting the works of Hendrix, Ornette and Piazzolla (to name just a few), would dip into Burman's Bollywood scores that drew on jazz and psychedelic rock, as well as traditional Indian music. Featuring legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosletabla, master tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, and Wu Man on the Chinese pipa.
Berklee Performance Center
$30 - $75, 7:30PM SOLD OUT
Kronos Quartet: website | myspace (w/ tracks) | purchase
Zakir Hussain: website

Lora Valente, Matt Durutti, and C. Fernsebner, Mike Walker, and Jon Petitt contributed to this post