Balkan Beat Box

(Showbox at the Market) Balkan Beat Box put a welcoming, celebratory spin on the sort of global-electronica stylistic promiscuity championed by DJ /rupture and ex-Seattleite Maga Bo. As evidenced on their forthcoming album, Blue Eyed Black Boy, BBB want you to party to foreign sounds, but they don't want you to get too lost in the unfamiliar. Consequently, they're cheerful ambassadors for uplifting rhythmic musics from the Middle East and, duh, the Balkans (Belgrade Gypsy ensemble Jovica Ajdarevic Orkestar contributed to the new full-length) while also giving hiphop and dub fans something to blaze to. Horns flare triumphantly, beats shuffle and undulate hyperkinetically, bass booms sensually, and voices ably rouse spirits—BBB throw a party that the United Nations could endorse. DAVE SEGAL

Concours d'Elegance, Chadwick, Viper Creek Club

(Comet) A Concours d'Elegance is basically a fancy, French-ified car show (or horse-and-carriage show back in the day); Louis Vuitton sponsors one in midtown Manhattan. So we might assume that Seattle synth-pop four-piece Concours d'Elegance are going for a kind of rarefied Parisian style, but we'd be wrong—or at least they'd be missing the mark. No, what the band most resembles is the frosty electro soul of Canadian duo Junior Boys, only Concours's take is a little more unabashedly emotive, a little more pop, a little hammier, really. It's not always exactly elegant, but it's certainly cooler than a lot of the electro pop that's been attempted in this town. ERIC GRANDY

And there's always more in our complete music calendar listings.