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POP MUSIC
QUEENSRYCHE The ’80s metal band will perform “extended suites’’ from “Rage for Order,’’ “Empire,’’ and “American Soldier.’’ In other Queensryche news, actor-singer Adam Pascal, recently in town with “Rent,’’ is planning to transform the band’s famous concept album “Operation: Mindcrime’’ into a Broadway musical. 7 p.m. July 30. $25. House of Blues. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.comINCUBUS Yes, it’s true. Enough time has actually passed for these California fusion rockers to be releasing a greatest-hits album. Since they’re touring behind the recently released “Monuments and Melodies’’ - which includes a disc of rarities - expect the expected. 7 p.m. Aug. 1. $20-$37.50.
THE DUKE & THE KING Simone Felice, late of the Felice Brothers, emerges from behind the drum kit to hook up with pal Robert Burke for this rootsy new outfit. The duo will preview tracks from their beautiful, gauzy, and bittersweet upcoming release “Nothing Gold Can Stay.’’ 8 p.m. Aug. 2. $15. Club Passim. 617-492-7679. www.clubpassim.org
CURSIVE More than a decade into their career, the Nebraska indie rockers continue to evolve, toning down, polishing up, and working out new sounds on their latest album, “Mama, I’m Swollen.’’ 8 p.m. Aug. 3. $15. Middle East Downstairs. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com SARAH RODMAN
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
THE LOVELL SISTERS Only one of them is out of her teens, but the sweet-voiced Georgian siblings behind this bluegrass trio sound well beyond their years. Playing fiddle, mandolin, and resonator guitar, the Lovells coax a rich and rootsy sound from their instruments, as heard on their brand-new album, “Time to Grow.’’ This is the show for everyone missing out on this weekend’s Folk Festival 50 in Newport. 4:30 p.m. Aug. 2. $12. Club Passim. 617-492-7679. www.clubpassim.com
ELIYAHU & THE QADIM ENSEMBLE On their new release, “Eastern Wind,’’ the Jewish and Arabic musicians who comprise this eclectic world-music ensemble show the power of unity on a set of devotional Middle Eastern songs. 9 p.m. Aug. 2. $10. Johnny D’s. 617-776-2004. www.brownpapertickets.com
SCOTT H. BIRAM If, upon first listen, Biram sounds like an old-school country singer strutting his strut in a saloon, wait for the next song. He’s liable to turn that assumption on its head with a rollicking detour into punk rock and metal. The Austin, Texas-based musician headlines a stealth lineup of Boston rockers including Wicked Whiskey and The Ten Foot Polecats. 9 p.m. Aug. 4. $10. Middle East Upstairs. 617-864-3278. www.mideastclub.com JAMES REED
JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET
VICTOR MENDOZA Vibraphonist, composer, educator, and Mexican native Mendoza is a fiery, bebop-influenced wonder, widely considered among the greatest living practitioners of Latin jazz. 7 p.m. July 30. Free. O’Day Park, next door to Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 West Newton St. 617-927-1717. www.berklee.edu/news/741/tito-ONSET BLUES FESTIVAL Philadelphian vocal phenom Gina Sicilia, 23, headlines the 17th annual edition of this gathering of several of the Northeast’s finest blues acts, featuring Boston diva Toni Lynne Washington with the Bluegil Band, Ricky “King’’ Russell & The Cadillac Horns, and The Mystix. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 1. $17-$20. Lillian Gregerman Band Shell, Prospect Park, Onset Village, Wareham. 508-295-7072.
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON AND THE BERKLEE CITY MUSIC ALL-STARS This year’s Jazz at the Fort concert features Medford-born drum star Carrington, who will sing and play funk, neo-soul, jazz, and Latin numbers from her new album, “More to Say.’’ The Berklee City Music All-Stars, a group of scholarship students from Boston neighborhoods, will open. 5 p.m. Aug. 2. Free. Highland Park on Fort Avenue, Roxbury. 617-747-2447. www.berklee.edu/news/concerts
AL VEGA 88th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Now boasting as many years under his belt as keys on his piano, the local legend began gigging around Boston in 1938 and is still going strong. Along the way he crossed paths with such jazz titans as Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Stan Getz, among many others. 8 p.m. Aug. 5. $20. Scullers. 617-562-4111. www.scullersjazz.com
KEVIN LOWENTHAL
CLASSICAL
INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE INSTITUTE AT LONGY The weeklong Baroque music seminar, this year focusing on “the Venice-Dresden connection,’’ culminates in a series of student and faculty performances beginning with a free chamber music program tonight called “Florence on the Elbe’’; a faculty recital tomorrow; and a final orchestral program on Saturday. Longy School, 27 Garden St. in Cambridge. 617-876-0956. www.longy.eduTANGLEWOOD Flutist James Galway performs tonight as part of his own 70th-birthday tribute in Ozawa Hall and then appears as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night in Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2, led by Leonard Slatkin. On Friday, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos leads the BSO in Debussy’s “La Mer,’’ the Second Suite from Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe,’’ and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with soloist Vadim Repin. Sunday, the excellent Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The work will be paired with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony on a program led by Thomas Dausgaard. 617-266-1200. www.tanglewood.org
BANG ON A CAN AT MASS MOCA The new music festival presents its yearly marathon with six hours of music performed by more than 30 musicians. Promised offerings include George Antheil’s iconic “Ballet Mécanique,’’ John Adams’s “Shaker Loops,’’ and David Lang’s “Pierced.’’ Aug. 1 at 4 p.m., $24, MASS MoCA, North Adams. 413-662-2111. www.massmoca.org
YELLOW BARN MUSIC FESTIVAL The intimate Vermont festival steams ahead with more programs that creatively blend repertoire staples with new music. Tomorrow brings a Schuman Quartet (Op. 41, No. 2), a Beethoven String Trio (Op. 9, No. 2), Kodaly’s Serenade, and Carter’s landmark Cello Sonata with Bonnie Hampton (cello) and Julio Elizalde (piano). Saturday’s program features works by Brahms, Haydn, James MacMillan, and Melissa Hui. And the concert on Tuesday is devoted to music by Britten, Lachenmann, Brahms (the blockbuster G-major String Quintet), and Yohanan Chendler. Big Barn, Putney, Vt. 800-639-3819. www.yellowbarn.org JEREMY EICHLER 
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