SONAR: The Slaughter Survivors (Saturday)

TALKING HEAD: Life as a Ghost (Sunday)

BOURBON STREET: Drop It Hard Vol. 4 feat. Endymion (Friday); Rome Apart (Friday)

POWER PLANT LIVE: Kristen and the Noise (Friday)

OTTOBAR: A Lifelike Story, et al (Monday); Emmanuel, et al (Wednesday); The Black Lips (Thursday); Disappears, et al (Friday)l The Artery Summer Tour with In Fear and Faith, et al (Saturday); Bright and Early, et al (Sunday)

METRO GALLERY: The Callers, Lands & People, Nat Baldwin (Wednesday); The Courtesy Line, Church of Strangers; Freeminer Birds (Friday)

RAMS HEAD ON STAGE: Lira (Monday); Avant (Wednesday); Marc Broussard (Thursday); Ruthie and the Wranglers (Friday); KJ Denhert (Saturday); Brian Howe (Sunday)

9:30 CLUB: Ellie Goulding (Monday; sold out); Wanda Jackson/Imelda May (Tuesday); Eels (Wednesday); Sia/Oh Land (Thursday; sold out); U.S. Royalty (Friday); Christina Perri (Saturday; sold out); Reel Big Fish/Streetlight Manifesto (Sunday)

VERIZON CENTER: Josh Groban (Wednesday); Keith Urban (Thursday); Britney Spears (Sunday)

JIFFY LUBE LIVE: 311/Sublime/Rome (Friday); Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival (Saturday); Def Leppard/Heart (Sunday)

BLACK CAT: Ms. Fridrich (Monday); Viva Brother (Tuesday); The Ambulars (Wednesday); Craft Spells (Thursday); The Blackberry Belles (Friday); Run For Cover 2011 (Saturday)

WOLF TRAP: Dolly Parton (Sunday)

DAR: George Clinton (Friday)

NOTABLE AREA EVENTS
Crab Bash (Tuesday; B&O American Brasserie)
Charm City Chaat — A Night of Indian Street Food (Wednesday; Creative Alliance)
Films on the Pier — “Get Him to the Greek” (Wednesday; Fells Point)
Flicks From the Hill — “Duck Soup” (Thursday; AVAM)
Gary Conrad (Thursday-Saturday; Magooby’s Joke House)
Otakon (Friday-Sunday; Baltimore Convention Center)
Little Italy Open Air Film Festival — “On the Town” (Friday; Little Italy)
Purple Ladies Night Out (Friday; M&T Bank Stadium)
“Taming of the Shrew” (Friday-Sunday; Strand Theater)
Ocean City Greek Festival (Friday-Sunday; Roland E. Powell Convention Center)
Bit Gen Gamer Fest 6 (Saturday; Bourbon Street)
“Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy” (Saturday; Meyerhoff)
Outlaw Jan 2 (Saturday-Sunday; Frederick Fairgrounds)
ReThink the Leaf: Benefit and Silent Auction for the NORML Women’s Alliance w/ Greta Gaines (Saturday; Metro Gallery)
Angel K-9 Bark-B-Q Bash (Sunday; Angel K-9 Training)