When one looks at the history of underground music of the last 25 years, it’s easy to find Thalia Zedek’s name sprinkled throughout. After playing in the all girl band Dangerous Birds and the short lived but seminal group Uzi, Zedek joined the renowned New York City noise band Live Skull. Contemporaries of Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull was brutally abrasive and often confrontational in their performances. After Live Skull’s demise, Zedek formed the underrated group Come with Chris Brokaw (formerly of Codeine). Scaling back somewhat on the noise, Come focused on its blues roots with jarring guitar work and Velvet Underground-styled rhythms. (Their albums—eleven:eleven and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell—are primal masterpieces). When Come broke up at the end of the 1990s Zedek went out on her own, displaying a much folkier vision of her work, and while quieter than her previous efforts Zedek’s music remains as intense. Aside from the standard guitar, bass and drums lineup, her sound is augmented by multi-instrumentalist David Michael Curry (of Willard Grant Conspiracy) and the piano playing of Mel Lederman (from Victory At Sea), with a vocal delivery reminiscient of Patti Smith or a latter day Leonard Cohen. Like Cohen’s Songs of Love And Hate or Velvet Underground’s self-titled third album, Zedek’s music is melancholic and dark but beautiful all the same. Opening the show is Tracy Morrow And The Magi Chippie, with Cassi Meyerhoffer and Vox Humana.

Thursday, December 13 at 8pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. (855-3931/mohawkplace.com). $7