Friday, October 1

FILM | The Haunted Castle

Director F.W. Murnau’s precursor to his best known work, Nosferatu, The Haunted Castle is a tightly confined drama that takes place in a day at the shadowy Castle Vogelod. The film is set several months after a murder, when mysterious circumstances bring together key suspects and a host of peculiar characters. Enjoy one of the master’s earliest silent works with live piano accompaniment by Ukrainian HFA composer in residence Yakov Gubanov. Tickets $6. 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. (BBC)

MUSIC | Wilco

The first time I listened to Wilco’s latest effort, A ghost is born, I couldn’t wrap my head around this latest bout of sonic curiosity. I was immediately turned off by drearily oblique opener “At Least That’s What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago Thax Douglas will be sorely missed, but the inevitable “Heavy Metal Drummer” sing-along will not. Opening are hot hot hot indie experimental rockers Fiery Furnaces. Tickets $25-30, available at www.wangcenter.org. 7:30 p.m. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, 270 Tremont St., Boston. (BBC)

MUSIC | The Black Keys

Ohio natives and White Stripes relatives The Black Keys bring their Midwestern blues-inspired rock to The Paradise in support of their latest and greatest album, Rubber Factory. San Francisco garage act The Cuts provides support. 18+. Tickets $15. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club. (EAG)

MUSIC | Damone

Boston’s own punk rock group Damone take the T.T.’s stage tonight. Named after the character from the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Damone is touring off its spring 2003 debut From the Attic, released on RCA. Opening for Damone will be The So and So’s, Stargazer Lily, The Knee-Hi’s, The Pinkslips and Drab. 18+. Tickets $8. 9 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge. (SLS)

MUSIC | Flogging Molly

A delightful mix of traditional Irish folk music and surging punk rock, the Los Angeles-based Flogging Molly presents some of the best music the Warped Tour lot has to offer. Fronted by Dublin native Dave King, this sextet sports a fiddle, accordion and mandolin. These guys know how to rumble with the best of them, but some of their finest moments come during their sweeping, heartfelt ballads. Their third album, Within a Mile of Home, was released just last month and continues the magnetic style they first displayed on their debut, Swagger. 18+. Tickets $17.75. 7 p.m. Avalon Night Club, 15 Lansdowne Street, Boston. (SLS)

READING | The Boundaries of her Body

Award-winning journalist Debran Rowland will be discussing her newest book on the troubling history of women’s rights in America. Ms. Rowland reveals the realities of the biology of a woman and how it has controlled her legal rights. Free. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave. (JJH)

READING | Susan Stewart

The National Book Critics Circle award-winning poet will read from her work as part of the Woodberry Poetry Room Series. Free. Photo ID required. 7p.m. Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library. (JJH)