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Here's our round-up of the week's most notable concerts. For more shows, check out FindLocal . Ticket prices do not reflect any additional surcharges and taxes. On Monday, Rachel Yamagata (whom you may have heard sing on Jason Mraz and Conor Oberst songs) performs at Rams Head on Stage ( $23.50 ). On Tuesday, D.R.I. (aka Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) performs at Baltimore Soundstage ( $15 ). Pop-punk meets folk at the Recher Theatre when "The Revival Tour" stops at Towson.

A 21-year-old White Hall man was hit by a car and killed Friday evening in Bel Air. Joshua L. Aversano, 21, of the 3100 block of White Hall Road in White Hall, was trying to cross Bel Air South Parkway and was hit by a 2003 Kia Sedona van driven by Kimberly A. Enders of the 500 block of Sellrus Court in Fallston. Harford County Sheriff's deputies responded to the 1600 block of Bel Air South Parkway around 6:30 p.m. Friday and determined that Enders was driving west in the right turn lane on Bel Air South Parkway toward Route 24 when Mr. Aversano, who was not in a designated crosswalk, ran across the east and westbound lanes of travel.

A couple of Baltimore bands are on the verge of releasing new albums. Lower Dens will soon release "Nootropics" and is going on the road later this month to promote it. They'll be at the Ottobar May 5 and Washington's Rock 'n' Roll Hotel the day before. The album's first single, "Brains," was released in January. Ticket information is not yet available. Upstarts Lands & Peoples, another band that has changed line-ups (it's now recording as a duo), is getting ready to release its first full-length album, " Pop Guilt . " To promote it, the band will be at Baltimore's Soft House March 9. Tickets, at $5, are sold at the door.

Christian Gettis says he doesn't know why men rushed into his Northeast Baltimore home in late 2010, tied up his wife and shot him multiple times. Federal prosecutors said Friday they suspect it probably had something to do with his heroin ring. According to his attorney, Gettis, 39, was mentoring young people and working at the West Baltimore clothing store Samos while shielding those close to him — including his wife and a son in college — from the knowledge that he was dealing drugs.

In the Spring of 2000, I was winding down my senior year at the University of Montana. And though I couldn't put the feeling into words, each day, I wandered around my hometown of Missoula feeling directionless. I had no plans after graduation. I had been rejected by about 50 newspapers I had applied to, seeking a post-graduate summer internship. I did my laundry in my parents' basement. The house I shared with three equally directionless roommates was six blocks from my childhood bedroom.

Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett and Chris Van Hollen are planning to take service members past and present to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address Tuesday evening. Bartlett, a Western Maryland Republican, and Van Hollen, a Montgomery County Democrat, are among some two dozen lawmakers participating in the bipartisan effort organized by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the House National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus to help focus attention on veterans' needs.

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Van Halen confirmed late Thursday night rumors they'd teased a few weeks ago: they're going on tour this year.  And yes, David Lee Roth is coming along. The tour, the band's first since 2008, will stop at the Verizon Center in DC March 28 .  Van Halen announced the tour near the end of last year , a sort of late Christmas present. But the news was short on details - not how long the tour would last, or where it would stop. They made the official announcement Thursday night at an intimate performance at New York City's Cafe Wha?

Lloyd Pearson, a veteran Baltimore Sun photographer whose iconic image of yellow and green Mayflower moving vans rolling the Baltimore Colts out of town during a midnight snowstorm earned him lasting fame, died New Year's Day from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Overlea resident was 90. Garn Lloyd Pearson — he never used his first name — was born the son of a cowboy/house painter and a homemaker in Monroe, Utah. His family moved around rural Utah before settling during the Great Depression in Salt Lake City, where he graduated in 1939 from Western High School with honors in art and drama.

Lauryn Hill is returning to the area for some redemption. After a disappointing performance at Rams Head Live at the start of the year, Hill will again try to win over regional crowds with a show at the Warner Theater in DC February 29. Hill, of course, does not have new material to promote. If the Rams Head show was any indication, she'll play a mix of hers and the Fugees' old hits. Tickets, starting at $55 for the upper balcony and set at a whopping $150 for the so-called golden circle, go on sale December 30. Baltimore's Weekends are going on tour early in the new year.