Pop Date Book

* Don Henley and special guest John Hiatt will play Staples Center on March 17, tickets go on sale Saturday . . .The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be joined at the Hollywood Palladium on March 1 by Thelonious Monster and DJ Perry Farrell in a benefit for ailing East Los Angeles drug counselor Gloria Scott. Tickets go on sale Saturday. . . . Tickets will be available Friday for Alejandro Sanz’s May 11 show at the Universal Amphitheatre. . . . Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland has a side project, Big Dumb Face, which plays the El Rey Theatre on March 20. Tickets go on sale Friday. . . . Friday is also the on-sale date for a second Nelly Furtado El Rey Theatre concert, March 17. . . . Also coming to the El Rey: Mogwai on March 18, Jonatha Brooke on March 30 and Low on April 19. . . . Tickets go on sale Saturday for shows by MxPx on March 20-21 at the Palace. . . . A reunion of the Soft Boys featuring Robyn Hitchcock on April 9 highlights the Knitting Factory Hollywood schedule, which includes John Wesley Harding on March 2-3, Banyan on March 7, the Locusts on March 9 and John Hammond on March 19. . . . Tickets go on sale Friday for these Roxy shows: Shuvel on March 2, Shawn Colvin on March 28-29, Eek-A-Mouse on March 30, Rodney Crowell on April 1, Mel C on April 5 and the Average White Band on July 29. . . . Coming to the House of Blues: Disco Biscuits on March 23, Guster on March 31, Vertical Horizon on April 2-3, SR-71 on April 17 and Poi Dog Pondering on April 20. . . . Among Sun Theatre shows going on sale Sunday: the Smothers Brothers on May 24, the Beach Boys on June 3, the Doobie Brothers on June 8 and Tom Jones on June 25.