Pop/Rock Listings for Feb. 17-23

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Steve Aoki (Friday) Mr. Aoki serves as one of a abiding tastemakers in a Los Angeles celebration microcosm, nonetheless he has secretly done general tastes for over a decade as a owner of Dim Mak Records (which has counted Bloc Party and a Kills in a roster). Expect judicious, strobe-addled spinning of his label’s stream talent, including a French dance titan Étienne de Crécy and a evening’s opening acts, AutoErotique and Datsik. At 8 p.m., Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, roselandballroom.com; $75. (Stacey Anderson)

★ Björk (Saturday) This cocktail innovator’s live philharmonic for “Biophilia” (Nonesuch) has some-more enticements than a swan dress has feathers. For this residency during a New York Hall of Science — this is a final uncover of a run — she offers onward soaring pendulum harps, state-of-the-art multimedia visuals, dual functioning Tesla coils, a 24-woman Icelandic choir and even a analogous monthlong scholarship curriculum for schoolchildren. The experience, and even a concomitant whiplash, is zero brief of glorious. At 8:30 p.m., New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, (800) 745-3000, nysci.org; sole out. The gymnasium opens during 6 p.m. on unison nights for displays of “Biophilia” items. (Anderson)

★ Black Joe Lewis and a Honeybears (Wednesday) On a Honeybears’ vital tag debut, “Tell ’Em What Your Name Is!” (Lost Highway/Universal Motown) of 2009, their frontman done no skeleton about being a world’s misfortune paramour: Mr. Lewis yelped with Howlin’ Wolf’s zeal about forgetful his girlfriend’s name, eating her duck and guiltlessly skipping town. The group’s latest offering, “Scandalous” (Lost Highway), offers likewise noted blues riffs and despondency bravado, a latter pleasantness of a subsidy rope that could extinguish a Famous Flames. With Flogging Molly and a Devil Makes Three. At 6:30 p.m., Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, ticketmaster.com; $33.50 to $49.50. (Anderson)

Theo Bleckmann (Wednesday) This initial singer-composer delivered keening, astronomical vocals and hypnotically husky orchestration on a new “Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush” (Winter Winter GmbH). He might reprise some of his siren’s works in this dusk of duets with a German pianist Michael Wollny, and some Portishead and Kraftwerk covers are also on a docket. At 9:30 p.m., Joe’s Pub, during a Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, during Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $15 to $20. (Anderson)

★ Cosmic Opera, with Axwell (Thursday) Axwell, one enclose of a large house-music contingent Swedish House Mafia, headlines this much-anticipated night-life eventuality orderly by a immature businessman Justin Cohen. Surreal 3-D video projects, Baroque-era costumed actors, elaborate story lines and away themed bedrooms are all betrothed — arrange of like a danceable “Sleep No More.” At 9 p.m., Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, (800) 745-3000, ticketmaster.com; $73. (Anderson)

★ Lila Downs (Saturday) This folkloric singer-songwriter from Oaxaca, Mexico, facilely balances warbling refrains in mixed informal dialects with American blues and flamenco-tinged jazz. The Latin Grammy award-winner offers selections from her newly expelled album, “Pecados y Milagros” (Columbia), in a overwhelming museum. At 4 p.m., El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, during 104th Street, East Harlem, (212) 831-7272, elmuseo.org; free. (Anderson)

Dia Frampton (Wednesday) The runner-up of a initial deteriorate of “The Voice” is reduction a network-branded cocktail star than a best-case unfolding for coffee-shop singer-songwriters a universe over: a warbling sprite with fair revisions of stream cocktail standards, plain acoustic guitar chops and doe-eyed good looks. Her studio debut, “Red” (Universal Republic), includes a duet with her former “Voice” coach, a nation star Blake Shelton. With Andrew Allen and Gio. At 7:30 p.m., Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, Chelsea, (212) 414-5994, highlineballroom.com; $15. (Anderson)

Peter Frampton (Saturday) Cash registers will be spurred to life during this delay of Mr. Frampton’s 2011 universe tour, that distinguished a 35th anniversary of “Frampton Comes Alive!” (AM), a juggernaut manuscript that delivered “Baby, we Love Your Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do” to a nearest recesses of your subconscious. He performs a manuscript in full, along with name other hits. At 8 p.m., Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway, during 74th Street, (866) 858-0008 , beacontheatrenyc.com; $49.50 to $100. (Anderson)

★ Aretha Franklin (Friday and Saturday) The maven of essence will season all of her late-1960s winning strain on Atlantic Records — a golden age that begat “Respect,” “Chain of Fools,” “I Never Loved a Man (the Way we Love You)” and many some-more — in a two-night run of fan requests and biggest hits. Radio City’s rafters are about to get a shot of gospel glory. At 8 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, (866) 858-0008, ticketmaster.com; $54.50 to $129.50. (Anderson)

John Hammond and John Mayall (Friday) These dual blues guitarists have full around with rock’s biggest improvisers — Mr. Hammond with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, Mr. Mayall with his possess Bluesbreakers, Mr. Clapton and Mick Taylor. This corner jam of stroke and blues promises electricity. At 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz during Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 721-6500, jalc.org; $55 and $65. (Anderson)

Marketa Irglova (Wednesday) Ms. Irglova is a fairer half of a Swell Season, a folk twin with her “Once” co-star, Glen Hansard. That touching film’s Academy Award-winning success also directed a march toward her solo debut, “Anar” (Anti-), a sensitively poetic piano-pop achievement. At 7 p.m., Joe’s Pub, during a Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, during Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, joespub.com; $15. (Anderson)

★ Zola Jesus and Liturgy (Saturday) Webster Hall might moment underneath a weight of this spectrally complicated double bill. Zola Jesus is a Russian-American bewilderment with a trenchant yell and heavy, electro-industrial melodiousness; her 2011 album, “Conatus” (Sacred Bones), landed like a heavier screed from Siouxie Sioux. The black-metal rope Liturgy, from Brooklyn, exuded convincing, fickle despondency on final year’s “Aesthethica” (Thrill Jockey). At 6 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (800) 745-3000, websterhall.com/events; $15. (Anderson)

Other Lives (Friday) The Oklahoma-bred orchestral rockers are proof a sure-thing opening ammunition for this year’s high-profile tours; they only warmed a theatre for a Grammy darlings Bon Iver and will join Radiohead on a highway in dual weeks. Their sophomore studio album, “Tamer Animals” (TBD Records), is an expansively crafted cocktail delight. With WIM and Lucius. At 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, nearby a Bowery, Lower East Side, (800) 745-3000, boweryballroom.com; $15. (Anderson)

Sinead O’Connor (Thursday) This clarion-voiced Irish singer-songwriter renews her celebrity with any private uncertainty she enacts in public, from ripping a print of a pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992 to airing on Twitter a bizarre, drug-laced undoing of her sudden Vegas matrimony final year. She celebrates this month’s recover of her new album, “How About we Be Me (And You Be You)?” (One Little Indian), that includes a expanded paper to marriage, “4th and Vine,” and a reduction rapturous cover of “Queen of Denmark,” created by John Grant of a Czars. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, Chelsea, (212) 414-5994, highlineballroom.com; sole out. (Anderson)

The Rapture (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 illuminated internal dance-punks a Rapture, some-more than qualify. With sets from Prefuse 73 and Import/Export. At 9 p.m., Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, during 81st Street, (212) 769-5200, amnh.org/osb; $25. (Anderson)

Romeo (Thursday) As a premier heartthrob of Bachata, an increasingly successful source of Dominican Republic cocktail rhythms, Romeo (Anthony Santos) binds millions of teenage girls’ dreams on his slim shoulders. However, interjection to his former frontman duties with Aventura, this is aged news to him, and to Madison Square Garden. At 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, (866) 858-0008, thegarden.com; $64 to $164. (Anderson)

Sleigh Bells (Friday) This aggressively twisted noise-pop twin are scaling walls in a hurry: they’re a low-pitched guest for this weekend’s part of “Saturday Night Live,” only days before a Tuesday recover of their second album, “Reign of Terror” (Mom + Pop). The burbling guitars of their singular “Born to Lose” deliver softer textures underneath a hysteria. With Wet Witch and Black Bananas. At 9 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, Clinton, (800) 745-3000, terminal5nyc.com; sole out. (Anderson)

Jill Sobule (Wednesday) Before Katy Perry, Ms. Sobule penned a distant some-more frank “I Kissed a Girl.” It would be unfit to upset a two, anyway: Ms. Sobule’s perspicacious, character-driven folk compositions about politics and amicable stigmas could not be a offer cry from whipped-cream bustiers and cheerful cocktail ditties. At 8 p.m., City Winery, 155 Varick Street, nearby Spring Street, South Village, (212) 608-0555, citywinery.com; $18 to $25. (Anderson)

★ Regina Spektor (Thursday) Downtown’s anti-folk ingénue packs her ivories and heads to one of a Upper West Side’s many royal halls, Jazz during Lincoln Center, in this advantage for a Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, or Hias. It should offer fine, if small-scale, credentials for her open gig: opening for a quintessential everyman, Tom Petty, on his American locus tour. At 8 p.m., Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz during Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212)721-6500, jalc.org; $55 to $250. (Anderson)

Ed Vallance (Sunday) This London-born singer-songwriter delivers contemporary cocktail with a classical elegance, an expanded suavity and only a hold of detached trendiness. In other words, he is a accurate sonic incarnation of a Ace Hotel. He offers excerpts from his second album, “Volcano” (Riot Act), on a inn’s dime each Sunday of this month. At 10 p.m., Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street, Manhattan, (212) 679-2222, acehotel.com/newyork; free. (Anderson)

Saul Williams and CX Kidtronik (Friday) Zealous nonetheless wholesome oral word serves a crux of Mr. Williams’s hip-hop, a thoughtfulness of his open-mic communication roots; he is also a co-writer and lead actor of a acclaimed indie film “Slam.” He pairs with CX Kidtronik, member of a earlier Atari Teenage Riot and a mesmerizing rapper from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who extols womanlike derrières with equal verbosity in “Krak Attack 2: Ballad Of Elli Skiff” (Stones Throw). At 9 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, (800) 745-3000, musichallofwilliamsburg.com; $18 in advance, or $20 during a door. (Anderson)