Pop and Rock Listings for Jan. 20-26

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★ Akron/Family (Saturday) Purportedly available during a bottom of an active volcano in Japan, “S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT” (Dead Oceans) is a caterwauling, narcotic, psychedelic-folk effort. These bicoastal rockers didn’t need a pale behind story, however; a record would have been as impressively expanded if they had claimed to record it in an Arby’s parking lot. With Dustin Wong and Bad Weather California. At 8 p.m., 285 Kent, 285 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; $12. (Stacey Anderson)

★ Antony and a Johnsons (Thursday) The sable hair and bright androgyny of Antony Hegarty, a lead singer-songwriter of Antony and a Johnsons, contradicts a regard inside his operatic nonetheless marble-mouthed warble. For this Museum of Modern Art-commissioned “Swanlights” opening event, a darkly orchestral chamber-pop organisation will span with a 60-piece band for a sonorous revisiting of marks from a vivid 4 albums. At 8 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, (866) 858-0008, ticketmaster.com; $40 to $75. (Anderson)

Eve Beglarian’s RiverProject (Saturday) Though she chose to span a strong Mississippi by kayak, not raft, Ms. Beglarian’s aspiring new Americana aria cycle captures those quick currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works rush gracefully on her large folk croon and sundry folk orchestration as puzzling as their inspiration. At 8 p.m., Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, during Pitt Street, Lower East Side, (212) 352-3101, abronsartscenter.org; $25, or $15 for students and seniors. (Anderson)

Big Freedia and Her Divas (Saturday) With a few choice difference — namely, “You nasty” chanted ad infinitum — a singer-rapper from New Orleans upstages Spank Rock on a latest single, “Nasty.” A tie of New Orleans “bounce,” a noisy aria of hip-hop formed on call-and-response rhymes and pushing electro beats, Big Freedia boasts her possess sincerely self-explanatory strike singles, “Azz Everywhere!” and “Gin in My System.” With Nicky Da B and Rusty Lazer. At 11:59 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 963-3369, brooklynbowl.com; $10. (Anderson)

★ Blondes (Saturday) The Blondes offer a decisive soundtrack for a stylish dispute of a MoMA dance party: galvanizing, supportive electro that coils tensely before seeping external into overpowering, overjoyed refrains. The Brooklyn duo’s partly makeshift opening accompanies a sound designation they orderly for a museum and a D.J. set by a dance-punk solo star a Juan MacLean. Doors open during 8:30 p.m. with a opening starting during 9:30. Museum of Modern Art, (212) 708-9400, moma.org/poprally/upcoming; $18 in allege or $23 during a door. (Anderson)

Petula Clark (Tuesday to Thursday, by Feb. 4) The singer, singer and all-around English rose is one of a best-selling musicians in British history, interjection to her breakthrough ballad “Downtown” and an indirect slew of Top 40 hits in a 1960s. Recently she has dabbled in sultry, French-language contemporary pop, though her residency during a august Feinstein’s should resurface all those wily musical inclinations that shot her to initial glory. At 8:30 p.m., Feinstein’s during Loews Regency, 540 Park Avenue, during 61st Street, (212) 339-4095, feinsteinsattheregency.com; $71.86 to $109.96. (Anderson)

Kelly Clarkson (Saturday) In a decade given Ms. Clarkson won a initial deteriorate of “American Idol,” she has grown into a indifferent representative of anthemic, feminist cocktail inflected secretly with gospel flair. Indignation is apropos her crutch, though; a top-heavy charge of her newest and fifth album, “Stronger” (RCA), could do with some-more moments of vulnerability, like a sensitively stirring “Dark Side.” At 8 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, (866) 858-0008, ticketmaster.com; $39.50 to $129. (Anderson)

★ Dirty Projectors (D.J. Set) (Friday) The One Step Beyond dance celebration in a Rose Center for Earth and Space of a American Museum of Natural History is a selectively educational endeavor: guest are giveaway to review each factoid on a Kuiper belt and Oort Cloud, or simply brief drink on them. Regardless, it’s a truly well-developed celebration best enjoyed in a association of far-sighted D.J.s; this month’s guest turntablists, a members of a glorious internal art-rockers a Dirty Projectors, some-more than qualify. With sets from Skinny Friedman and Import/Export. At 9 p.m., American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street, (212) 769-5200, amnh.org/osb; $25. (Anderson)