Concert Previews

In its centennial year, the Settlement Music School's Distinguished Alumni Recital Series will focus on its Jazz All-Stars. These illustrious alumni are Settlement 100 honorees: Violinist John Blake played with Archie Shepp and McCoy Tyner; trumpeter Wallace Roney was one of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers; pianist Sumi Tonooka gigged with David "Fathead" Newman, Little Jimmy Scott, and Philly Joe Jones' Le Grand Prix. Whether they jammed outside Philly jazz circles or remained closer to home, these All-Stars will always be artists whose studies at Settlement helped to make them the powerful players they are. But if they don't behave on Sunday, they might have to stay after school and clean the erasers.

- A.D. Amorosi

Philly's Diplo had a busy year, and he celebrates it, and his birthday, by ending a monthlong U.S. tour with some like-minded associates and a pizza party tonight. Diplo (Wesley Pentz) had a producer's hand in Santogold's debut, in M.I.A.'s ubiquitous "Paper Planes," and in remixes from Radiohead, Of Montreal and John Legend. Going back to his Hollertronix mash-up days, his DJ sets have always been full of pleasure-centric surprises, and it's reasonable to expect some local flavor in his choices: He does a great, crunked-up version of the

Rocky

theme, for example. Joining him will be Los Angeles' Abe Vigoda, which forcibly yokes African-style guitars with shoegazing distortion and post-rock noise in a fashion not quite as absurd as its TV-actor-alluding name, plus New York's eerie, dreamy Telepathe, Baltimore's hyperkinetic Blaqstarr, and London's electro-popster Boy 8-Bit. It's a guaranteed party.

- Steve Klinge

It's warhorse week at the Wachovia Center. Two pop music institutions roll into South Philadelphia: Aussie hard-rockers AC/DC and material mum Madonna. Each has recently used name-brand clout to forge headline-making, music business alliances: AC/DC with Wal-Mart, exclusive sellers of the band's foursquare new

Black Ice,

and Madonna with behemoth promoter LiveNation, which gave her a $120 million deal last year. And each relies on images of scantily clad women in the concert staging. AC/DC's women tend to be of the giant, inflatable variety, while the still hard-bodied pop dominatrix, whose Sticky and Sweet tour promotes her serviceable dance record,

Hard Candy,

remains the object of attention herself.

- Dan DeLuca