Weekly Music Picks: Waking up From a Long Weekend

Time to hit the gym. Time to work off the 19 hot dogs and 12 hamburgers ingested over the last four days. Well, maybe the gym isn't going to do it. Throw down a couple of bucks this week and dance, sweat, and otherwise work off that weight as you listen to some great tunes – played live – around Boston this week.

Tuesday 5/30
Lifestyle with What Time is It Mr. Fox, and The Jill/Jennifer Sound
It's the final installment of the Lifestyle Residency, the synthpop group featuring members of Freezepop, Ad Frank and Boy in Static.
Abbey Lounge
9PM, 21+
Lifestyle: myspace | My Favorite Song .mp3

Wednesday 5/31
Cougars, The Hidden, Capital Radio, Pending Dissapointment
An 8 piece punk band, Cougars defy any formula. Stay tuned for an album review of "Pillow Talk" tomorrow.
Middle East
18+, $9
Cougars: myspace | Scissitar.mp3

Natraj
"Hard-driving African grooves and graceful Indian ragas meet in Natraj's expansive jazz conception." The band grafts the classical music of Indian onto to the rhythms of West Africa, "in a way that falls somewhere between Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Vishnu." The Boston-based quartet (Phil Scarff, sax, Michael Rivard, bass, Jerry Leake, tabla, Bertram Lehmann, drums, percussion) is joined for this performance by bamboo flute master Steve Gorn (who's played with the likes of Jack DeJohnette, Tony Levin, Samir Chatterjee, and Paul Simon).
Regattabar
$14, 7:30pm
website | purchase

Boston Pops' Mozart's Greatest Hits
Keith Lockhart and his Pops offer a selection of music by Mozart, most of it from 1791, his sad, spectacular final year: arias from "The Magic Flute;" the finale of his last symphony, the deceptively simple "Jupiter;" and, of course, choice morsels of the Requiem.
Symphony Hall
8 p.m., $17, $21, $32, $39, $45, $55, $74
The BSO: website
Mozart: Natural smarts, or stick-to-it-ivness?

Friday 6/2
Local rockers Francine celebrate their newest CD release "Airshow" with Furvis and Invisible Rays.
Paradise Lounge
9PM, 18+ $9
Francine: myspace | Oxygenated.mp3

Gov't Mule with Michael Franti & Spearhead
Bostonist was first blown away by Michael Franti's lefty, jazz-rap group Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy back in the early '90s. Since then, Franti's led the sublime hip hop 'n' funk troupe Spearhead (check 2003's Everyone Deserves Music; a new album drops in July). Franti & Co. open for the blues/southern rock/psychedelic power trio Gov't Mule.
Bank of America Pavilion
$30, 7pm
Michael Franti & Spearhead: website | myspace
Gov't Mule: website | myspace | Soulshine live video @ YouTube

T Bone Burnett and Jakob Dylan
T Bone Burnett is known best as a producer. He's worked on albums by Elvis Costello and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. He'll be giving his solo work a showing, appearing with Jakob Dylan.
Somerville Theatre
7:30PM, $22.00
T Bone Burnett: myspace | Fear Country.ram

Saturday 6/3
Reverend Glasseye, HUMANWINE, Campaign For Real Time, The Murder Elite
C4RT won the Rumble last month, just another sign that smart electro-pop was won over Bostonian hearts.
Middle East Downstairs
18+, $10
C4RT: website with streaming tunes

Sunday 6/4
Radiohead
Bank Of America Pavilion
Radiohead: fake myspace

Rachel Cantu with Head Like a Kite, Tyler James
Paradise Lounge
7PM, 18+, $10
Rachel Cantu: myspace | Run All Night.mp3

Lora Valente, Matt Durutti, and Christina Linklater contributed to this list