Just under a month after a similar disaster in which a Cheap Trick outdoor concert stage collapsed in the middle of the Ottowa Bluesfest in Ontario, Canada, a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday night during a Sugarland/ Sara Bareilles concert, killing five and injuring dozens more.

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Sara Bareilles is ready to return to the spotlight with her sophomore album Kaleidoscope Heart. It’s the follow up to her freshman outing Little Voice, which was released in 2007 and contained the hit “Love Song.” The track “sold 3.2 million digital downloads, earned two Grammy Award nominations-one for song of the year and another for best female pop vocal performance-and bolstered sales of Little Voice to 985,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.”

Those are some big shoes to fill, so will Kaleidoscope Heart live up to the hype?

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• Moving Units | Friday March 6 | 8:00 pm | $20 | The El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA – Map | The Los Angeles-based dance-punk band – whose album “Hexes for Exes” (released last October) displays a hard edge smoothed over with electronic New Wave components – will be headlining a line-up of musical guests at the standing-room-only venue. Click here for tickets.

• Handsome Furs | Friday, March 6 | 9:00 pm | $15 | Mercury Lounge, New York, NY – Map | The Montreal-based husband and wife duo – whose work is highly influenced by the experience of travel and therefore is abstract enough to stand out – is currently on their North American tour. They will be heading across the pond in April to promote their new album, “Face Control”, which will be released on March 10th. For more information, call (212) 260-4700.

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