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Whether she’s ululating in dead languages or bringing frightful new life to a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins standard, Diamanda Galás is the scariest singer we’ve ever heard. Possessed of a superhuman four-octave range, Galás takes her voice to weirder places than Björk, and she draws more blood than Nick Cave. In the past, she’s alternated between shrieking, apocalyptic avant-garde operas (including The Litanies of Satan, after Baudelaire, and her Plague Mass, which evokes the horror of the AIDS crisis) and savage, roller-coaster readings of gospel and ’50s R&B standards. She’s just released a pair of live double albums (both Mute) covering both her spheres: Defixiones: Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead, a meditation on early-20th-century genocides that includes settings of poems in a half-dozen languages; and La Serpenta Cantata, a concert of lone-wolf blues and country. They’re her first albums of the new century, and she’s making a rare Boston appearance on October 8 at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. It’s a 7 p.m. show, and tickets are $25 and $34; call (617) 931-2000.

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The work of the 13th-century Turkish love poet Jelaluddin Rumi is brought to life by translator Coleman Barks (who issued The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems last year), cellist David Darling, percussionist Glen Velez, and "storydancer" Zuleikha in a multidisciplinary evening titled "The Rumi Concert: A Turning Night of Stars" that’ll benefit the Montague-based House of One People. It too takes place October 8, at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston. Tickets are $25 to $75; call (617) 585-1260.

And beyond

You asked for it, you got it: another night of the Pixies/Mission of Burma spectacular has been added at Tsongas Arena in Lowell, with a December 2 date joining their SRO December 1 show on the itinerary. Promoter MassConcerts initially ran a banner reading "final area appearance" under the announcement of the December 2 addition, but this advisory has since been removed — read into that what you will. Tickets are $35.50, and they probably won’t last long; call (617) 931-2000.

Leaks of the week

Eminem’s comeback album, Encore (Shady/Interscope), promises to be one of the most closely guarded releases of the year, but within hours of DJ Green Lantern’s debuting a one-minute clip on the radio, digital rips were riding the Web. The first single’s a pillow fight for the kids: over a tinker-toy electro beat, Em sets his enthusiasm level to hall monitor and flips "Hammer time" into "pajama time." But not even a fart joke, a nod to Beavis and Butthead, and a Pee-wee Herman scream can keep it off dance floors. The album’s out November 16. . . . Just when we thought former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha was turning into Axl Rose, he released a Trent Reznor–produced solo tune, "We Want It All," to iTunes. Way closer in form and content to the MC5 than to Public Enemy, it’s scheduled for hard-copy release via the Michael Moore–assembled Songs That Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11 (Epic; due October 5). . . . And though the label is still stalling us on advances, someone was able to snatch Le Tigre’s This Island (Island) off a peer-to-peer network last week: you need the Bikini Kill–strength punk rant "Seconds," their Blondie-disco moment "After Dark," and their bubblegum electro-reggae cover of the Pointer Sisters’ "I’m So Excited." The disc comes out October 19, and the band hit Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, on October 23; call (617) 931-2000.