Hot tickets

Catch Elvis Costello in an all-acoustic setting with the Sugarcanes when the iconically bespectacled rock legend's tour hits the Warner Theatre on April 22. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Live Nation ($60-$75 in advance, $63-$78 day of show).

Here's a list of the other upcoming shows going on sale this week:

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. through Ticketfly or 877-435-9849 for these shows at the 9:30 club:
• Kidz in the Hall, March 8 ($20)
• Balkan Beat Box, March 12 ($20)
• Air, AM, March 17 ($40).

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for "Alfred Hitchcock's the 39 Steps," March 23-28 at Warner Theatre ($35-$70). 202-397-7328.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and Live Nation for:
• Five for Fighting, March 9 at Lisner Auditorium ($35)
• the XX, March 28 at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue ($18)
• Kevin Smith, April 22 at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue ($45 in advance, $49.50 day of show).

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for:
• Hadag Nahash, March 2 at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue ($25)
• Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy, May 1 at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena ($57.50)
• the National, June 6 at DAR Constitutional Hall ($33.50).

Tickets go on sale Friday at noon through Ticketmaster for these shows at the Birchmere:
• Ray Davies, March 1 ($49.50)
• Oleta Adams, July 10 ($39.50)
• Michael Franks, July 24 ($45)
• The Tribute, July 31 ($35).

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for Alicia Keys March 24 at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena ($37.50-$100).

Free tickets will be available beginning Wednesday (Feb. 3) at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud, March 12 at the Library of Congress.

-- Alex Baldinger and Amy Orndorff