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JENNIFER LOPEZ & ENRIQUE IGLESIAS In 1999, they were both part of a wave of Latin pop stars who topped the Billboard charts. This coheadlining tour comes at a particularly good time for Lopez, who recently announced she would not return as a judge on “American Idol” in order to focus on her music career. July 25,
7:30 p.m. Tickets: $27-$157. TD Garden. 800-745-3000,
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POP & ROCK
ELENI MANDELL From Los Angeles, this dusky singer-songwriter flits in and out of genres as if they all came to her naturally. Her new album, “I Can See the Future,” is a lovely distillation of torch and twang. July 21, 8 p.m. Tickets: $20. Club Passim. 617-492-7679, www.clubpassim
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THE DRIVE TOUR Its music was essential to conveying the urban noir at the heart of last year’s “Drive,” which starred Ryan Gosling. This tour includes three of the bands featured on the film's soundtrack: College, Anoraak, and Electric Youth. (Bonus points if you show up in the scorpion jacket that Gosling wore in the movie.) July 22, 9 p.m. Tickets: $15. Brighton Music Hall. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com
LIARS Released last month, “WIXIW” is the latest stylistic detour for this New York indie-rock band that has been hard to pin down over the past decade. The new album’s icy exteriors belie the warm melodies that percolate underneath.
July 24, 8 p.m. Tickets: $15. Paradise Rock Club. 800-745-3000, www.ticket
master.com
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
MORNIN’ OLD SPORT Mornin’ Old Sport draws its name from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” which gives you a good idea of what their music sounds like — you could call it prewar speakeasy folk. Not all of it, though; some songs get pulled postwar by ample use of pedal steel guitar. July 19, 9 p.m. Tickets: $9. Middle East Upstairs. 888- 777-8932, www.ticketweb.com
ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU This legendary (or legendarily obscure) group was founded in 1968 but known outside their native Benin only to obsessive crate-digger types until they began playing beyond its borders in 2009 and released their first album in 20 years in 2011. They’re still producing an intoxicating, dance-inducing blend that draws on the rhythms of voodoo, Afrobeat, funk, and jazz. July 20, 9 p.m. Tickets: $25. Brighton Music Hall. 617-876-4275, www.worldmusic.org
THE DUNWELLS They’re a British band, but apparently they’ve spent a lot of their listening time in Laurel Canyon, given how evocative their music — particularly their harmonizing — is of the California folk and country-rock of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Poco, and other fellow-travelers of that era. July 24, 9 p.m. Tickets: $12. Brighton Music Hall. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com
J.P. HARRIS AND THE TOUGH CHOICES With a name like that, could they be playing anything but hardcore, tear-in-your- beer, remorse-filled honky tonk? They’ll be previewing a weekend’s worth of performances at the Lowell Folk Festival with this Wednesday show in the apropos setting of the Cantab. July 25, 8:30 p.m. No cover, donations suggested. The Cantab Lounge. 617-354-2685, www.cantab-lounge.com
JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET
ARTURO SANDOVAL The virtuosic Cuban trumpeter, a disciple of the great Dizzy Gillespie, can whisper a sensitive ballad, burn through an up-tempo bebop tune, or scream a hot Afro-Cuban solo with equal aplomb. July 20, 8 p.m. Tickets: $45-$78. Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St., Rockport. 978-546-7391, www.rcmf.org
TESSA SOUTER The 28th season of Marblehead Summer Jazz continues with an appearance by the late-blooming British-Trinidadian vocalist. A protégée of the great Mark Murphy, she has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest and most fearless jazz vocalists to have emerged in recent years. July 21, 8 p.m. Tickets: $26-$40. Unitarian-Universalist Church, 28 Mugford St., Marblehead. 781-631-6366, www.marbleheadjazz
.org
GEORGE WEIN & THE NEWPORT ALL STARS In his ninth decade, the famed jazz impresario, creator in 1954 of the Newport Jazz Festival and numerous others since, is still going strong. In addition to Wein on piano, the current edition of the All Stars includes saxophonist/clarinetist Anat Cohen, saxophonist/flutist Lew Tabackin, guitarist Howard Alden, bassist Jay Leonhart, and drummer Lewis Nash. July 21, 8 and 10 p.m. Tickets: $40. Scullers. 617-562-4111, www.scullersjazz.com
NATRAJ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT The acclaimed world-jazz ensemble—famed for its exhilarating fusion of contemporary jazz with South Indian and African grooves and techniques — celebrates a milestone, with special guest Indian percussion virtuoso T. K. Ramakrishnan joining saxophonist Phil Scarff, violinist and violist Rohan Gregory, bassist Mike Rivard, multipercussionist Jerry Leake, and drummer Bertram Lehmann. July 25, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $18. Regattabar. 617-395-7757, www.regatta
barjazz.com
CLASSICAL
TANGLEWOOD Christoph Eschenbach returns on Friday (July 20) to lead the BSO in works by Bernstein and Tchaikovsky. Saturday (July 21) it’s an all-Wagner program led by Asher Fisch. And Sunday (July 22), a recuperating Kurt Masur will share conducting duties with his son, Ken-David Masur, in an all-Mozart program with Gerhard Oppitz at the keyboard for the Piano Concerto No. 24. Lenox. 617-266-1200, www.tanglewood
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MARLBORO MUSIC The venerable Vermont chamber music festival has announced its second weekend of programs, with music by Mozart, Berg, and Schumann on Saturday night, and works by D’Indy, Handel, Beethoven, and William Bolcom on Sunday afternoon. Marlboro, Vt. 802-254-2394, www.marlboromusic.org