Posted at 7:00 AM ET, 04/29/2010

Hot tickets: Imogen Heap, the New Pornographers and MGMT

By Alex Baldinger

Imogen Heap performs at the Warner Theatre May 29 (Chris Pizzello/AP).

"Electro-savvy" and "chanteuse": two words that are rarely paired together, but in the case of Britain's Imogen Heap, they are apt. The songwriter who once suggested "there's beauty in the breakdown" while a member of Frou Frou on 2002 megahit "Let Go," Heap performs at the Warner Theatre May 29. Tickets ($36.50) go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

Here's a list of the other shows you can snag tickets for this week:

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. through Ticketfly for these shows at the 9:30 club:
• The Dance Party, May 21 ($15).
• Patty Griffin with Buddy Miller, June 12 ($35).
• Blitzen Trapper, June 14 ($15).
• Concrete Blonde, June 15 ($25).
• The Melvins & Isis, June 16 ($20).
• The New Pornographers with the Dodos and the Dutchess and the Duke, June 22 ($30).

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketfly for the following shows at Merriweather Post Pavilion:
• MGMT, Aug. 14 ($25-$35).
• David Gray and Ray LaMontagne, Aug. 15 ($40-$75).

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for:
• Melissa Etheridge, July 20 at the Music Center at Strathmore ($37-$102).

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Live Nation and Ticketmaster for:
• Erykah Badu, May 22 at Pier Six Pavilion ($47-$77).
• Tim McGraw with Lady Antebellum and Love and Theft, July 10 at Jiffy Lube Live ($29.75-$69.75).
• Cool Tour 2010 featuring As I Lay Dying, Underoath and Btbam, July 16 at Sonar ($29.50).
• Jackson Browne, Aug. 24 at Pier Six Pavilion ($36-$65.50).
• Rush, Sept. 18 at Jiffy Lube Live ($49-$120).

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for:
•Summer Jam, June 18 at 1st Mariner Arena ($18-$90).
• The Legg Mason Tennis Classic, July 31 to Aug. 8 at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center ($10-$70).

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketfly for:
• Carnival of Madness featuring Shinedown, Puddle of Mudd and Sevendust, July 28 at Merriweather Post Pavilion ($30-$45).

-- Alex Baldinger