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With California's Coachella Festival done with its first weekend of performances, Sweden's Refused—one of two iconic late-'90s hard-core punk bands that reformed to play at the festival—makes its way to New York (no word on when the other band, At the Drive-In, might appear). Formed back in 1991 in the northern university town of Umeå, Refused reached its creative pinnacle with 1998's frantic and eclectic swansong, "The Shape of Punk to Come." Alas, the band imploded mere months after its release, due in part to critical indifference. It was only posthumously that Refused's legacy grew in sound and influence. Frontman Dennis Lyxzén went on to launch the popular garage band the (International) Noise Conspiracy. But with the recent rumors of Refused's reunion now confirmed, "The Shape of Punk to Come" can be actualized at ear-bleeding volume some 14 years on.

Monolake

The Bunker @ Warsaw
261 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, (718) 387-0505
Friday
Originally a duo comprising Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles, Berlin-based Monolake remains one of the most important acts in modern electronic music, and not just because of its ground-breaking minimal techno work in the 1990s and early '00s. In 1999 the two founded Ableton, the premiere music-software company, as ubiquitous for ProTools for most DJs and producers. Now Monolake is solely under the purview of Mr. Henke, who released a comeback record in 2010, then followed it with this year's "Ghosts." The new album strikes a balance between the lush soundscapes and finely attuned sonic details of Monolake's previous work with a new emphasis on buzzing and crackling dubstep-deep beats. Mr. Henke makes a rare stateside appearance as part of this week's adventurous Unsound Festival.

Biosphere & Lustmord: 'Trinity'

West Park Presbyterian Church
165 W. 86th St., (212) 362-4890
Saturday
Biosphere is the working name of the Norwegian sound artist and electronic-music producer Geir Jenssen. His soundwork started in the realms of acid house and new beat, then drifted into ambient techno with his 1997 album "Substrata," a landmark of the form. Similarly, British composer Lustmord (real name Brian Williams) worked in film and video-game soundtracks before becoming a pioneer of the "dark ambient" sound. Together, the two composers have been commissioned for a new work by Poland's Unsound Festival (in the city this week). On Saturday they'll present the world premiere of "Trinity," for which they took field recordings around the nuclear testing sites of the Los Alamos laboratories and wove them into a coherent piece.

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Lockett Pundt of Lotus Plaza.

Lotus Plaza

Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, (718) 599-1450
Thursday
the Atlanta-based rock band Deerhunter, guitarist Lockett Pundt serves as the introverted yin to frontman Bradford Cox's extroverted yang. His contributions to the band's exemplary 2010 album, "Halcyon Digest," were two of its highlights. The second full-length from Mr. Pundt's other band, Lotus Plaza, continues that trend with the recently released "Spooky Action at a Distance." While taking a phrase of modern physics as its title, the music itself is far more immediate. Mr. Pundt's songwriting and guitar playing are the perfect amalgam of jangle (think REM and Johnny Marr's work with the Smiths) and effects-pedal haze. Concise verse-chorus-verse structures soon open up into more expansive fields, as on the six-minute "Jet Out of the Tundra." Thursday at Glasslands, Lotus Plaza opens up for labelmates Disappears.

Washed Out

Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn, (718) 486-5400
Monday
Like many of his generation, Ernest Greene was unable to find work after college, so he retreated home and began making hazy, loping music on his laptop. In one stroke of genius, he slowed down a section of a cheesy Italo disco song from the '80s, repurposing it for a dreamy song called "Feel It All Around." It quickly spread from his bedroom to Bedford Avenue boutiques to the theme song for sketch-comedy show "Portlandia." For his full-length debut, last year's well-received "Within and Without," Mr. Greene teamed with Gnarls Barkley producer Ben Allen for a set of songs that flowed from mellow electronica to head-nodding trip-hop. A year on, it remains an idyllic soundtrack for spring and impending summer.
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