Mark Lanegan Band

In the grand tradition of the Animals’ Eric Burdon, Mark Lanegan has one of rock’s most distinctive and dark voices. Since his days fronting Seattle’s mighty Screaming Trees, he has applied it to many different musical incarnations, including stints with Queens of the Stone Age, the Gutter Twins and the collaboration with Isobel Campbell that last brought him to town. He is fronting his own band again in support of his first solo album in seven years, “Blues Funeral,” which experiments with electronics and poppier melodies but still sounds heavy and bleak. Opening duo Sean Wheeler and Zander Sloss are two L.A. punk vets who play old-timey music. Chris Riemenschneider