E-Mail This Article to a Friend Doublepalooza Lollapalooza expands, plus the MFA's 'Concerts in the Courtyard' and more

Doublepalooza

Given the humbling box-office draw for last summer’s lackluster Jane’s Addiction–headlined Lollapalooza, more than a few folks wondered whether the festival franchise wouldn’t be hauled off the market again in ’04. Perry Farrell’s answer? Why, if the kids won’t show up for a day’s worth of alterna-rock in the sun, how about . . . two days? Lo and behold, this year’s Lolla has doubled in size — and in some ways gone back to its roots. The festival’s Boston dates, August 14 and 15 at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. On the 14th, Morrissey and Sonic Youth return to headline a bill with Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Von Bondies, Broken Social Scene, the Walkmen, DJ Danger Mouse, the Datsuns, and Sparta. On the 15th, Farrell’s new-found love of jam-band yuck finds the String Cheese Incident headlining over the Flaming Lips, Basement Jaxx, Spearhead, the Polyphonic Spree, TV on the Radio, Sound Tribe Sector 9, the Coup, and hometown kids Wheat. Both days include a solar-powered stage featuring Mike Watt, Aussie lo-fi weirdos Bumblebeez 81, and Boston’s Dresden Dolls, among others. In an odd twist, both the Tweeter’s shed and its lawn are being listed as general admission, with tickets running $39.50 for each day, or $60 for both; call (617) 931-2000.

Art of noise

Not usually noted as a bastion of musical hipsterese, the Museum of Fine Arts is nonetheless speaking our language with its annual outdoor "Concerts in the Courtyard" series. That kicks off June 23 with Múm, the icy ætherialists who share a label — not to mention a country of origin, a certain arched-eyebrow accentuation (in their name, at least), and a 10,000-leagues-beneath-the-sea æsthetic — with the frigid Icelandic soundscapists Sigur Rós; Norwegian glitch-hop dude Kim Hiorthøy opens. Other highlights include Mike Rivard’s world/trance improv group Club D’Elf, with Mission of Burma’s Roger Miller sitting in, on July 14; jazz shouter Kevin Mahogany on August 4; the 14-piece Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, playing Fela-style protest funk from their forthcoming Who Is This America (ropeadope), on August 18; and Boston’s own New Orleans–style parade band the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble joined by the Crescent City’s latest star — the young, hotdogging virtuoso Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews — on August 25. All concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Norma-Jean Calderwood Courtyard at the MFA, 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston; call (617) 369-3306.

Criminal minded

Perennial Dorchester bad boy (cough, cough) Marky Mark Wahlberg returns to his superthug hip-hop roots (snork) as the narrator of Leslie Neale’s hour-long documentary Juvies, which takes a hard look at what it calls the failure of America’s juvenile justice programs, which were created to rehabilitate young offenders and keep them out of the general prison population but are now funneling upward of 200,000 minors into adult courts each year. Mos Def is in the film reading the poetry of incarcerated kids; the Doors’ John Densmore is somehow involved; and both are expected to be present for a screening of the film — with an introduction by Wahlberg, who’s also credited as executive producer — next Monday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street in Harvard Square. Tickets are $10; call (617) 496-2222.

Pillow talk

You may have seen Lar Lubovitch teaching his duet . . . smile with my heart to Neve Campbell on screen in Robert Altman’s docudrama The Company. But you can see it in the flesh on June 19 as part of the opening-night gala at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, which kicks off the nation’s premier summer-dance festival. Lubovitch Dance Company members Griff Braun and Sandy Brown perform the duet. Also on the bill: former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane member Sean Curran’s company performs his Folk Dance for the Future; there’s a world premiere work by former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Leslie Browne; and you get a sneak peek at the multimedia exhibit "America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100," which makes its East Coast debut at the Pillow all summer. Tickets start at $125; call (413) 327-1234.