Weekly Music Picks: Pumpkin Carving Edition

There's no good reason to be sitting at home carving pumpkins this week with all the good shows happening around the Hub. Take a moment to put down your $3 carving kit and your pumpkin to sing the pumpkin carving song as you head out to catch some live music. Oh, and if you wear your costume we won't tell.

Tuesday, 10/24
Project Move with Elemental Zazen
Local hip hop heroes Project Move and Elemental Zazen hit Great Scott. With Louis Logic.
Great Scott, 18+ 9pm, $10 adv / $12 door
ProjectMove: myspace | purchase

Frank Black
We caught him solo opening for the Foo Fighters a couple months ago – but he's been back since then, and will be hitting the stage with the band (not the Pixies) tonight he hits Axis in a show originally set for the sister venue Avalon. A smaller venue with more rock? Yes, please..
Axis, $20.25, 8pm

Wednesday, 10/25
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
Self described as a "punk-jazz version of the Thelonius Monk Octet," this wild septet included saxophones, trumpet, trombone, Hammond B3 organ and electric piano. The group's name is almost as interesting as its music. The "syncopated trait" was a derogatory and racist term used by U.S. Bureau of Narcotics Czar Harry Anslinger in the 1930s and 40s to describe the "perversion" that corrupted jazz and distinguished it from "good music."
Regattabar, $18, 7:30pm
website | syncopated taint @ ropeadope | purchase

Petra Haden and the Sellouts
After spending most of the last decade backing up acts ranging from the Foo Fighters to Bette Midler to the Decemberists, Haden takes center stage at the MFA to perform her most recent quirky project, an a cappella-based cover album of the classic The Who Sells Out. This might be your only chance to see a 10-member female back-up choir re-interpret Roger Daltrey's vocal stylings.
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, $20; $16 students, seniors, members, 7:30 pm

Thursday, 10/26
Dave Holland Quintet (also Friday and Sunday)
Bassist Dave Holland (who received an honorary doctorate from Berklee in 2000) brings his acclaimed quintet, featuring the phenomenal Chris Potter on sax, to the Regattabar for three nights.
Regattabar, $25, 7:30pm & 10pm (4pm & 7pm on Sunday)
website | myspace | wikipedia

The Killers
If you haven't heard of them yet, you probably never will. New sensation The Killers take stage at the Orpheum for a show we wish they'd done this summer so we could have seen it at the Bank of America Pavilion. No doubt it will be well produced - just try and grab a seat on the first floor or the mez.
The Orpheum, $38, 9pm

Friday, 10/27
Snowleopards
Sweet, sweet Snowleopards. A new favorite found while listening to Exploit Boston Radio can be heard on a couple stations on your FM dial these days as well. Nothing beats them live, except for live with a mere $5 cover.
Bill's Bar, 21+, $5, 9pm

Lady Sovereign
Hailing from the UK she's seemingly been everywhere in the last year. She lands in Boston tonight.
Paradise Rock Club, 18+, $15, 9pm

Fiery Furnaces, Viva Viva (feat. members of Dirty Holiday/Officer May, The Lot Six, and Frank Smith)
Hot (like a fiery furnace). Enough said.
Middle East Downstairs, 18+, $12, $14dos, 8pm doors

Saturday, October 28
Cold War Kids
Originally set to play the Paradise tonight the Cold War Kids are taking their sound over to Great Scott instead. Grab your refund for the Paradise show and head over to Great Scott where you can take in the show and a beer for the same price. It's almost like free beer.
Great Scott, 21+, $10, 9pm

Sunday, October 29
Mixin' It Up: Klezmer Meets Swing
The Klezmer Conservatory Band, featuring vocalist/guitarist C. Calloway Brooks (grandson of swing icon Cab Calloway), celebrate the connection between Eastern European Jewish and African American musics with an afternoon of swinging klezmer and jazz.
Berklee Performance Center, $23-28, reserved seating, 4pm

Morning Theft
They're sorta from here. Lead vocals and frontman Rob Holmes brought the band from Boston to their new home in NYC a few years ago – but they're still making regular trips up the I-95 corridor to let us back in on their sound. Their Halloween treat (no tricks) for us is a cover of the entire Weezer Blue Album. Word.
TT the Bear's, $8, two sets and two other bands take stage at 9pm.

Matt Durutti and Adrienne Aldredge contributed to this week's picks