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POP
BEYONCÉ Sasha Fierce was too much for the MUDVAYNE/BLACK LABEL SOCIETY/STATIC-X This nu-metal survivors tour should prove brutal from the first double-bass downbeat through the Cookie Monster caterwauling about black pits of rage. Don’t forget to bring your earplugs and your need for catharsis. 6 p.m. July 25. $33.50. Tsongas Arena. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com
PETE YORN The LA singer-songwriter is riding some of the best reviews of his career for his fourth album, “Back and Fourth,’’ which is his most introspective yet, combining his breezy vocal style with some melancholic but tuneful musings. The charming folk-pop newcomer Zee Avi opens. 7 p.m. July 26. $25-$35. House of Blues. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com
KID ROCK & LYNYRD SKYNYRD If you’ve been singing “Sweet Home Alabama’’ all summer long, here’s your chance to sing along with lots of other people. Also note: This is the only concert, ever, at which “Freebird’’ is acceptable as a shouted request. And even then, why do it? You know they’re going to play it. 6:30 p.m. July 29. $21-$76. Comcast Center. 877-598-8689. www.livenation.com SARAH RODMAN
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
ANNIE AND THE BEEKEEPERS A wistful sense of nostalgia wafts through the bare-bones folk and country tunes by this Boston-based trio whose members met at Berklee College of Music. They’re now touring behind an intimate new EP, “Squid Hell Sessions,’’ recorded in Jamaica Plain. Guests include film singer-songwriter and film composer Keegan DeWitt and roots quartet Rusty Belle. 8:30 p.m. July 25. $10. Lizard Lounge. 617-547-0759. www.lizardloungeclub.comCAROLINE WEEKS Just as you’d expect from someone who credits seashells and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay as influences, Weeks’ introspective folk ruminations strike a delicate balance between the ethereal and the tangible. Weeks, who’s also a member of the British psych-rock band Bat for Lashes, headlines a strong bill of fellow avant-folkies including Lewis & Clarke, Corridor, and local singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby. 9 p.m. July 27. $9. Middle East Upstairs. 617-864-3278. www.mideastclub.com JAMES REED
JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET
LA TIMBASTICA This Berklee-sponsored, free outdoor concert features the dynamic young Latin jazz sextet named Down Beat magazine’s 2008 College Jazz Group of the Year. Led by conguero Paulo Stagnaro with timbalero Marcos Lopez, bassist Juan Maldonado, pianist Alex Brown, saxophonist Godwin Louis, and flutist Enrique Trinidad, its repertoire spans Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and salsa classics, as well as original compositions. Noon. July 23. Free. Plaza at 300 Athenaeum St., Kendall Square, Cambridge.JOE LOUIS WALKER The multiple award-winning blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter has shared the stage with a range of blues-inspired artists including B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Jimi Hendrix, and Bonnie Raitt. He’s been called a living legend, and his fiery, soulful take on the music could make you a believer. 7:30 p.m. July 23. $16. Regattabar. 617-395-7757, www.regattabarjazz.com
SAFFIRE THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN Retiring as a group after 25 years, the earthy acoustic trio of Gaye Adegbalola, Andra Faye, and Ann Rabson makes its final swing through the Hub in the wake of its fine final recording, “Havin’ the Last Word.’’ 8:30 p.m. July 23. $16. Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St., Somerville. 617-776-2004, www.johnnyds.com
REBECCA PARRIS Boston’s own Jazz diva, who’s worked with everyone from Woody Herman to Joe Williams, returns to Marblehead Summer Jazz for her 25th appearance in as many summers, as an essential part of the celebratory 25th anniversary season of the world-class concert series. 8 p.m. July 25. $25-$26. Unitarian-Universalist Church, 28 Mugford St., Marblehead. 781-631-1528, www.marbleheadjazz.org
KEVIN LOWENTHAL
CLASSICAL
BANG ON A CAN On Saturday, the so-called Banglewood festival at MASS MoCA zeros in on the essential American composer Steve Reich. The composer himself will be on hand for a 3 p.m. talk about Sol LeWitt, and at 8 p.m., Bang on a Can performs an all-Reich program including his landmark “Music for 18 Musicians’’ as well as “Eight Lines’’ and “Video Phase.’’ $24, MASS MoCA, North Adams, 413-662-2111 or www.massmoca.orgMONADNOCK MUSIC This weekend Monadnock focuses on the connections between words and music. Saturday’s program, titled “Words Into Song,’’ features works by Dowland, Purcell, Respighi, Howard Frazin, and Melinda Wagner. On Sunday, the eminent American poet Richard Wilbur will read from his own poetry, followed by a performance of new Wilbur settings composed by James Bolle, Jonathan Elliott, Stephen Jaffe, Mark Kuss, Eric Moe, and Caroline Mallonee. $20, Peterborough Town House, New Hampshire, 800-868-9613 or www.monadnockmusic.org
TANGLEWOOD For James Levine’s final weekend this summer at Tanglewood, he leads the BSO in a Berlioz and Mussorgsky program on Friday, and the Brahms Requiem with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on Saturday. On Sunday and Monday, he conducts the orchestra and vocal fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center in a staged production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,’’ directed by Ira Siff. Meanwhile, the forward-thinking conductor David Robertson picks up the BSO’s Sunday matinee concert, leading works by Harris, Thomson, Barber, and Bernstein. Tuesday is the annual Tanglewood on Parade, with family activities in the afternoon and fireworks following the 8:30 p.m. concert. 617-266-1200 or www.tanglewood.org
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICAS The touring pan-American youth ensemble stops off in Boston for a free concert on the Esplanade with works by Bernstein and Dvorak as well as Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Gabriela Montero is the soloist and Benjamin Zander conducts. July 29 at 7 p.m., Hatch Shell at the Esplanade, 617-520-2200, www.landmarksorchestra.org.
JEREMY EICHLER
Correction: Because of a reporting error, an item in today’s “g’’ section, which was printed in advance, gives the wrong date of a show by Saffire the Uppity Blues Women. The concert is today at Johnny D’s.
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