Pop Date Book

* Tickets go on sale Saturday for U2’s San Diego Sports Arena show April 17, featuring singer Bono, right, and on Sunday for the band’s Arrowhead Pond date April 23. . . . Tickets also go on sale Saturday for the bill of OutKast, Xzibit and Ludacris, March 24 at the Universal Amphitheatre. . . . Sunday is the on-sale date for another Universal show, Keith Sweat on Feb. 14. . . . Tickets go on sale today for two El Rey Theatre shows: the Promise Ring Feb. 9 and former Pavement leader Stephen Malkmus March 13. . . . Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys come to McCabe’s Feb. 11. Tickets go on sale Monday for that show, as well as for Waterson:Carthy on Feb. 9. . . . Tickets go on sale Friday for Bela Fleck & the Flecktones’ April 6 date at the Wiltern Theatre, the Stereophonics’ acoustic show at the El Rey Theatre Feb. 16, and for three Knitting Factory shows: Minus 5 and the Young Fresh Fellows March 1, Superchunk March 4 and Suzanne Vega March 23. . . . Face to Face headlines the Hollywood Palladium March 2, with tickets going on sale Saturday. . . . Also available Saturday are four Roxy shows: Home Grown Feb. 16, a second Donnas/Bratmobile date Feb. 23, U.S. Bombs April 6 and Pound Hound (featuring members of King’s X) April 13. . . . New to the House of Blues lineup are Richard Cheese Feb. 6 and the Wailers Feb. 8. . . . Sweetwater plays the Galaxy Theatre April 17. . . . Coming to the Glass House: Rainer Maria and Mike Kinsella Feb. 22 and the Ataris, Tsunami Bomb, No Motiv and Nerf Herder March 2.