Music: the week ahead

HUNX AND HIS PUNX This trash-talking, girl-group-loving band was just in town in April, and we hear T.T. the Bear’s still hasn’t recovered from that wild performance. Led by leather-clad frontman Seth Bogart, Hunx and His Punx are still on the road behind this year’s “Too Young to Be in Love.’’ Sept. 1, 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $12, $10 in advance. T.T. the Bear’s. 617-492-2327. www.ticketweb.com

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD In the spirit of their short-and-sweet songs, here’s the abbreviated rundown on JEFF the Brotherhood: Two brothers, Jake and Jamin Orrall. From Nashville. Play punk music like the second coming of the Ramones. New album called “We Are the Champions.’’ Fast and furious. Really good. Sept. 4, 9 p.m. Tickets: $10. Great Scott. 617-566-9014. www.ticketweb.com

JOE JONAS & JAY SEAN Ahead of a new solo album expected in October, Joe, the eldest of the Jonas Brothers, is offering a sneak preview with a new coheadlining tour with R&B singer Jay Sean. Note: Earplugs not included with ticket purchase. Sept. 6, 8 p.m. Tickets: $39.50-$55. House of Blues. 800-745-3000. www.livenation.com

JAMES REED

FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY

RHYTHM & ROOTS FESTIVAL This festival’s bread and butter is Cajun and zydeco dance music from the likes of the Red Stick Ramblers and Steve Riley, but there are plenty of other choices for those with two left feet, including Richard Thompson, Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, Delbert McClinton, and Raul Malo. Sept. 2, starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 3-4, starting at noon. Tickets: $25 -$50 single-day, $120 weekend. Ninigret Park, Charlestown, R.I. 888-855-6940. www.ticketinspector.com

CAMPFIRE Club Passim’s Labor Day festival stuffs more varieties of folk music than you can shake a roasting stick at into a four-day schedule of single artist performances and “where will this end up?’’ in-the-round groupings. Sept. 2, 6 p.m. Sept. 3-5, noon. Tickets: $10 single-day pass, $30 weekend pass. Club Passim. 617-492-7679. www.clubpassim.org

MATISYAHU “Unique’’ is a term that often gets bandied about rather loosely. But how many other artists express their Hasidic Judaism through hardcore dancehall reggae? I think the answer is “none.’’ Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $28. Boarding House Park, 40 French St., Lowell. 978-970-5200. www.lowellsummermusic.org

TENNESSEE MAFIA JUG BAND Coming at you from Goodlettsville, Tenn., they’re “five guys and a scrubboard, with roots like wisdom teeth.’’ One of them is banjo picker Leroy Troy, a regular on Marty Stuart’s weekly TV show. They’ll be playing old-time jug and string-band music that’s real good, and they’ll be telling jokes that are real bad. Sept. 5-6, 10 p.m. No cover. The Cantab Lounge. 617-354-2685. www.cantab-lounge.com

STUART MUNRO

JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET

ROBIN MCKELLE The versatile, husky-voiced singer has recently branched out from classic swinging jazz to funky soul music in the mode of Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Sept. 1, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20. Scullers. 617-562-4111. www.scullersjazz.com

COAST TO COAST SEPTET WITH JIMMY COBB/THE MINGUS ORCHESTRA WITH GUNTHER SCHULLER Tanglewood Jazz Festival presents a double bill featuring two NEA Jazz Masters. Drummer Cobb has worked with legendary singers Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Sarah Vaughan, as well as John Coltrane and Miles Davis. (Cobb’s the last living member of the band that recorded Davis’s epochal “Kind of Blue’’). His septet, with vocalist Mary Stallings, will perform numbers associated with the above-named jazz divas. The omni-talented Schuller will conduct the Mingus Orchestra in a program featuring his arrangements of several Charles Mingus compositions, including the world premiere of his arrangement of “The Chill of Death.’’ Sept. 4, 2 p.m. Tickets: $19-$56. Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox. 888-266-1200. www.bso.org

B.B. KING The seemingly indefatigable performer is among the most iconic living figures in any musical genre, and his gritty, expressive voice and stinging guitar licks are true blues axioms. Sept. 4, 8 p.m. Tickets: $60-$85. Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford. 508-994-2900. www.zeiterion.org

JEFF GALINDO QUARTET The virtuosic trombonist plays his unwieldy instrument with astonishing fire and imagination, and he surely ranks among the MVPs of the Boston jazz scene. Sept. 7, 8 p.m. No cover. The Beehive, 541 Tremont St. 617-423-0069. www.beehiveboston.com

KEVIN LOWENTHAL

CLASSICAL

LYDIAN STRING QUARTET Members of the Brandeis-based Lydian Quartet perform Irving Fine’s Fantasia (for string trio), Ravel’s Sonata (for violin and cello), and Fauré’s Piano Quartet, with pianist Ya-Fei Chuang joining as guest. 8 p.m., Sept. 10. Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham. 781-736-3400, www.brandeis.edu

SEPTEMBERFEST Longy School of Music, recently merged with Bard College, opens its annual SeptemberFest with a public discussion on the future of music education, with Bard president Leon Botstein and Longy president Karen Zorn, followed by a program of works by Cage, Gabrielli, and others. Sept. 9, panel at 6:30 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. Free, Longy School, 27 Garden St. in Cambridge, 617-876-0956, www.longy.edu

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE CONCERT The City of Boston and New England Conservatory present this 9/11 memorial concert with the premiere of an oratorio by Silvio Amato, commissioned by the Vatican. Benjamin Zander leads the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, vocal soloists, and a chorus of young singers. Also on the program: Barber’s Adagio for Strings, and Massenet’s “Meditation’’ from “Thais.’’ 2 p.m., Sept. 11. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory. www.necmusic.edu or 617-585-1122.

VILNA GHETTO THEATER Sophie Michaux (mezzo-soprano) and Eugenia Gerstein (piano) present excerpts in Yiddish from four revue shows written for and performed on the stage of the Vilna Ghetto theater. With commentary from scholar Susanne Klingenstein. 7:30 p.m., Sept. 6. Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon St, 617-262-6050, www.goethe.de/boston

JEREMY EICHLER