Orthodox Jewish reggae rapper Matisyahu serves up his Yiddish-flavored, Hasidic-powered rhymes at Brooklyn Bowl Oct. 25.

The forecast looks sweaty, wild-haired and very, very loud with a serious chance of permanent hearing loss. That’s because it’s practically raining heshers and headbangers this week in Las Vegas.

L.A. death-pop band Orgy seduces LVCS at 8 p.m. October 11. Danceable and dark, this spooky gang of synth-slammers specialize in groove-busting yet melancholy tunes such as “Wide Awake and Dead."

I spent my teens ghetto-blasting the music of L.A.-spawned alternative-rock band Concrete Blonde. From the bracing 1986 self-titled debut to the spooky vibe of vampire-themed Bloodletting (1990), singer-bassist-songwriter Johnette Napolitano never let me down.

One of my fall musical highlights is already here: Las Vegas singer Kristen Hertzenberg and her band return to Cabaret Jazz in The Smith Center at 5 and 8 p.m. September 27 to unveil Spellbound.

For those about to rock … here's your fall concert to-do list.

South Korean power-violence? You know I want some, which is why I’ll be in the moshpit at 9 p.m. September 7 at the Dive, where My Man Mike will maul everyone in earshot.

Whenever I get depressed thinking about the rise of EDM, all I have to do is put this column together to realize that, hey, electric guitars ain’t going anywhere. Indeed, there’s plenty of live rock music happening in this city every night.

Two of my favorite indie-rock bands—one Vegas-based, the other with Vegas ties—are playing the new Bunkhouse this week: Rusty Maples (August 25) and the Silver State (August 27). Even better, they’re both releasing CDs that evoke, in different ways, the big-sky, desert-stretched grandeur of the Southwest.

Santa Cruz ’80s-era hardcore band BL’AST is set to obliterate Triple B. Anyone who has followed alternative music surely remembers these guys, who released three albums for SST Records before calling it quits.

Some absolutely deadly underground rock acts are touring through Las Vegas this weekend. Too bad they’re mostly crammed into the very same evening, August 8. You’ll need to pick your poison—punk, goth, psyche-rock—based on what I tell you here.

Rad-as-hell rapper Rittz rolls into LVCS at 10 p.m. July 25. If you enjoy off-the-beaten-path hip-hop (like Yelawolf and Tech N9ne), you’ll dig this Georgia-bred MC.

Everyone’s favorite Obama-phobic moron Ted Nugent plays the Orleans at 8 p.m. July 12. Despite his political idiocy, the Nuge still plays guitar at a very high level, and his rock-quartet format packs a serious wallop.

In times of soul-crushing stress, my go-to disc is anything by Krishna Das, Grammy-nominated U.S. singer-songwriter who has been recording Indian chants for the last 20 years. He plays Las Vegas July 8.

Now Hertzenberg takes another musical detour this weekend when she fronts gypsy-jazz combo Hot Club of Las Vegas at the third annual DjangoVegas!, a concert celebration of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt.