Electric Wizard at Northsix; La India at MetroTech; Funk, Bossa Nova, Jazz and Salsa at JVC Fest; George Tice at ICP; the Rezillos; High on Fire; Videodrome

Our girlfriend's Cuban mom tends to confuse La India with La Lupe. This is a bit of a problem, La Lupe being dead and all. Then again, they both have Bronx connections, and they're both great Latin singers. And La India even covers a handful of La Lupe's best-known songs on her most recent LP. Since her emergence in the mid-90s, they've come to call La India the "Princess of Salsa." If she keeps going the way she has, eventually they'll crown her Queen. She's a belter with a hotcha dance music background, but she can also do smoky and slinky and go all soft and velvet on the ballads. She's got a huge following and will no doubt pack downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech Center Commons when she gives a free lunchtime concert Thurs., June 27, noon-2 p.m., as part of BAM's ongoing Rhythm & Blues Festival. If you're a salsa fan, this would be a good day to play hooky. Flatbush Ave. Extension(Myrtle Ave.), 718-636-4100.

Years and years ago, we watched the Mothership descend upon a dowdy civic arena and light the sucker up, bringing the galactic funk to a large audience of sweaty, bumping, grinding earthlings. Little did we know that in their/our dotage George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic would make it into the generally staid JVC Jazz Festival. But here they are?still throwing a decent dance party, if nowhere near up to the Close Encounters spectacle of yesteryear?in the best possible venue, the Apollo, Thurs.-Fri., June 27-28, 253 W. 125th St. (Frederick Douglass Blvd.), 749-5838. Also on the bill this final weekend of the festival: bossa nova bratpacker Bebel Gilberto sharing the stage with internationalist soul diva Angelique Kidjo at the Beacon Theater on Fri., June 28, 2124 B'way (74th St.), 496-7070; Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker and others in a tribute to Miles and Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, also on Fri., 154 W. 57th St. (betw. 6th & 7th Aves.), 247-7800; and a salsa throwdown matching Eddie Palmieri and his band with Orquesta Aragón, also at Carnegie Hall, on Sat., June 29. For full schedule see www.festivalproductions.net/jvc/jvcnyindex02.html.

Long before Bruce Springsteen started to wax poetic about New Jersey, photographer George Tice was covering the same turf with his camera. Tice's 1974 night shot Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey features a menacing black water tank looming over a brightly lit gas station, empty of human presence except for the muscle car parked out front. As a black-and-white metaphor, it sums up the Garden State about as well as Ansel Adams' Moonrise summed up the American West. Tice's other work is formal and contemplative, especially his photographs of Amish children and Shaker interiors, but there's a sly hint of surrealism to make his pictures more engaging than the static subject matter might suggest. The retrospective, which opens Fri., June 28, covers 40 years of Tice's work, and runs through Sept. 22, at the International Center of Photography, 1133 6th Ave. (43rd St.), 857-0000; closed Mondays.

When we heard the Rezillos' first single "I Can't Stand My Baby," it made us pogo ourselves into a frenzy, even with the Quaaludes kicking in. Then, hearing their album Can't Stand the Rezillos in 1978, we fell in love with singer Faye Fife and their hit tune, "Top of the Pops." We also thought Eugene Reynolds, their other lead singer, was really slick with his Elvis-meets-Eraserhead hairdo. Now more than two decades later they're back, and playing... Brooklyn. Why these guys couldn't get booked in Manhattan is beyond us, but what the hell, we'll go see them anyway. They're at Warsaw on Fri., June 28, as part of a Get Hip Records showcase that includes the Paybacks, the Chargers Street Gang, Mondo Topless and the Cynics?who, for some reason, look like they're headlining in the ads we've seen. 261 Driggs Ave. (betw. Eckford & Leonard Sts.), Greenpoint, 718-387-5252; $10.

The extremely heavy Oakland rock trio High on Fire (featuring ex-Sleep member Matt Pike) hit town this weekend to celebrate their latest recording, Surrounded by Thieves (Relapse), with their amps on 11. Think Neurosis meets Slayer. Fri., June 28, they play Williamsburg's Local, with Mastodon and the Mighty Robot AVSquad, 10 p.m. 351 Kent Ave. (S. 5th St.), 718-387-3399. Then Sat., June 29, they're at Downtime, with Mastodon and Ned Vizzini's band the New Mexikans. Doors open at 8 p.m. 251 W. 30th St. (betw. 7th & 8th Aves.), 695-2747.

Bust out your stretch pants and Reebok hi-tops for the hippest electro 80s night since, well, the 80s. New-wave hosts Andro Genetic ("New Wava Gabore"), Roman ("Video Star?Rated R"), Eddylicious ("Hi-Frequency Extravaganza") and Marla Belt ("21st Century Fashion Patrol") keep the fierce tudes flying and the geometric earrings dangling. DJ Jeffo spins future-past collisions that could blow the fluorescent pink mullet right off your scalp. Dress for excess as 1982 meets 2002 and explodes in neo-new-wave-electroclash at 10 p.m., Sun., June 30, when Videodrome takes over Infrared Lounge. 210 Rivington St. (betw. Ridge & Pitt Sts.), 254-5043; $5.