Pop Date Book

* Saturday is the on-sale date for Bruce Springsteen, right, & the E Street Band’s May 21 concert at the Arrowhead Pond. . . . Tickets also go on sale Saturday for a Nine Inch Nails Pond show on June 6, and for the bill of Poison, Cinderella, Dokken and Slaughter, Aug. 3 at the Universal Amphitheatre and Aug. 4 at Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion. . . . Tickets will be available Sunday for Joni Mitchell’s May 12 show at the Greek Theatre, where she’ll be accompanied by an orchestra on a set of pop standards. . . . The Vans Warped Tour will be held June 29 at the Pond parking lot. Among the acts: Green Day, NOFX, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, MxPx and the Suicide Machines. Tickets go on sale Friday. . . . Tickets go on sale Saturday for 311, joined by Incubus and the Kottonmouth Kings, July 1 at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. . . . Tickets will also be available Saturday for two El Rey Theatre shows: The The on May 17 and the Morphine Orchestra (formerly Morphine) on May 18. . . . The Roxy’s schedule includes Kina on May 3 and Sergent Garcia on May 9. . . . Coming to the Troubadour: Strife April 21, 7 Seconds April 29, El Vez May 6 and Gene June 1. --RICHARD CROMELIN