IN CONCERT
If you’re not into whining with mope rocker Morrissey – who plays five sold-out shows at the Apollo starting tomorrow – check out fiery ’70s punk poet Patti Smith during her three nights at Brooklyn’s Warsaw, tonight through Tuesday.
Beatles collaborator, father of Nora Jones and Indian music legend Ravi Shankar rocks the sitar at Town Hall on Tuesday.
Thursday, alt-metal supergroup A Perfect Circle (That’s Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, Smashing Pumpkins vet James Iha on guitar and ex-Vandals drummer Josh Freese with the sticks) plays Nassau Coliseum.
ON SALE
Tickets go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. for Elton John, who’s at Radio City Music Hall from July 13-18 (Ticketmaster.com.) The minor-league Staten Island Yankees are hoping to reel families in with teeny-bopper Aaron Carter on June 12; tickets on sale today through Siyanks.com.
ON TV
“Ride with Funkmaster Flex,” begins its second season with helicopter-shopping guest Mariah Carey, tonight at 8 p.m. on SpikeTV.
Loretta Lynn and her new producer, Jack White (you may know him from a little band called the White Stripes) are on Letterman tomorrow night.
For a farewell “Friends” concert, the Rembrandts will play live from NBC’s “Today Show” on Thursday – go on, you know they’ll be there for you. Alicia Keys is Friday’s “Today Show” guest.
This week, “Last Call with Carson Daly” hosts the Rapture on Monday and Rooney on Thursday. If you missed Janet Jackson on Letterman, she does “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on Thursday.
ON XBOX
If you’re not up for late-night talk shows, use your TV for more productive things – like playing Xbox Live against famous joystick jockeys. Checkout Xbox.com to find out how to take on emo rockers Thursday today at 1 p.m., and “O.C.” theme-singers Phantom Planet at 4 p.m.