BEST BETS Saturday 9/30

IRVINE

7:30pm

Pop Music

Counting Crows’ lead singer Adam Duritz took a musical detour earlier this year to be part of “The I-10 Chronicles,” a multiartist salute to the highway that spans the U.S. from Santa Monica to Jacksonville, Fla. On Saturday, Duritz and the band will venture about 50 miles south of I-10 for their performance at Irvine’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.

* Counting Crows, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine. With Live, the Negro Problem. 7:30 p.m. $16.50 to $36.50. (949) 855-6111.