The electro-pop band swap

Instead of Depeche Mode... Blank Dogs.

The Name Brand: Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden, $49.50 to $129.50, and you’ll sit a mile away.
The Budget Band: Blank Dogs at the Monster Island Basement (128 River St., Williamsburg), July 26, $8
This new-wave, synth- and guitar-heavy band takes the dark electronic sounds of Depeche Mode and adds a post-punk feel of Joy Division and The Jesus and Mary Chain. More info here.

Noodly jam-band swap

Instead of Bob Weir... Woods.

The Name Brand: Bob Weir at the Beacon Theater, $50.
The Budget Band: Woods at the Bell House (149 7th St.), August 14, $15
Woods combines effects-laden, jam band elements with a folk style much like Bon Iver. Their live shows can feature epic guitar solos that sometimes last for 15 minutes. Dungen also that night. More info here.

Lo-fi/psych-folk band swap

Instead of Bob Dylan... Grizzly Bear

The Name Brand: Bob Dylan in Lakewood, NJ, $67.50, traffic on the Turnpike.
The Budget Band: Grizzly Bear at East River State Park (90 Kent St.), August 30, free
Dylan lovers will appreciate Grizzly Bear’s spaced-out, harmonically-complex folk, which is like Animal Collective meets Country Joe & the Fish.  Beach House will open this installment of the Jelly NYC Pool Parties. More info. here.

Punky art-rock band swap

Instead of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... These Are Powers.

The Name Brand: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Clifton Park, NY ($25, plus a four-hour drive from NYC).
The Budget Band: These Are Powers at the Whitney Museum (945 Madison Ave., yes, Manhattan). July 31
These Are Powers follow in YYY’s footsteps but bring their own wild noise to the experience. Think of walking into a strange decrepit basement and finding a ritualistic dance party with flashing green lights all around. More info here.

Hipster hip-hop band swap

Instead of Lil' Wayne... Ninjasonik.

The Name Brand: Lil’ Wayne in Saratoga Springs, NY, $125.
The Budget Band: Ninjasonik at the Jungle (286 Meserole St.), August 22.
Brooklyn’s favorite party rappers do everything Lil’ Wayne can do and more. They parody faddish hipster trends like lifting dance beats from rock tunes and turning them into club anthems. The sound is frenetic but funky. More info here.

The O'Jays, back in the day.

How could these Monday night shows not be a blast? Tonight, Keyshia Cole and Lyfe Jennings kick off the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series at Wingate Field in Flatbush.

The rest of the lineup tilts heavily old-school, with artists including Teena Marie, Jeffrey Osborne, Anita Baker and the O’Jays next Monday. (You know they sang Love Train, didn’t you?) The series is hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, (he of official proclamations), and it runs every Monday night at 7:30 through August 24,  Caribbean Night with Sean Paul. BYO lawn chairs. Lineup and more info. here.

To get to Wingate Field, take the 2 or 5 trains to Winthrop Street—5 runs rush-hour only—and walk 2 blocks east.

Saturday at 4, They Might Be Giants perform a free concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell for a $3 donation, as part of Celebrate Brooklyn. Info, here.

Also on Saturday, the Kris Waldherr Studio-Gallery (this woman is amazing), is hosting an opening for the show, Brooklyn: Through a Child’s Eyes,” featuring the illustrations of 21 kids ages 3 to 9, who created the work in a single afternoon recently. There’s a book, too. Noon to 3, 1501 Newkirk Ave. (entrance on Marlborough Road, around the corner from subway station), 347-406-5811.

If you’re hitting the road or the skies this summer, plan now for a bon voyage at Flight 001′s sample sale Saturday and Sunday at their Smith St. location (132 Smith St.). The travel store, whose online product menu includes everything from aerotherapy to “jet comfort,”  is celebrating Bastille Day and selling “one of a kind” samples, cds and an assortment of bags. There’s also a packing-themed raffle.

Or brings the kids to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum (145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Ave.) tonight at 5 for the first of the Target Free Friday Family Jams. Ugandan music and dance will be featured tonight, with some film shorts and African Pearl Troupe leading a drum session (bring your own drum to join in), 5-7:30; admission free after 5. Then come back for the museum’s Sportacular Weekend (Saturday and Sunday), where the family can learn about world sports, fitness and nutrition and the athletes of the animal world (maybe even some aquatic?) through two all-day schedules of demonstrations, activities, lessons and music. 11:30 to 5, both days.

Red Shed Community Garden (266 Skillman Ave. at Kingsland Ave.) in Williamsburg is holding a mega BBQ/benefit on Saturday, with $2 hot dogs, $3 burgers and sausages, free salads and sides, a raffle for dinners and services, a book swap and, oh, yeah, you get to see the workings of an urban organic garden. 1-6 p.m.

Sunday brings the kickoff the Jelly NYC Pool Parties at their new home in East River State Park (no pool here, but there’s some water nearby, so they kept the name). Still, there’ll be DODGEBALL, basketball, food and of course the DJs and bands. Sunday’s line up includes Mission of Burma, F***ed Up, Ponytail and Jemina Pearl. Gates open at 2 p.m., 90 Kent Ave. at N. 9th St.