Happening Wednesday

MUSIC

Mariah Carey Hot on the heels of her award-winning performance in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” and in anticipation of next month’s remix album, the R&B chanteuse demonstrates her vocal range with her Angels’ Advocate Tour. This marks the seventh concert tour for the 39-year singer and actress. Gibson Amphitheatre, 100 Universal Terrace Parkway. 7:15 p.m. $250.75. (818) 622-4440. www.citywalkhollywood .com. >>Read the Times Review of Carey here

The Rescues and Lucy Schwartz The indie supergroup makes a stop in Los Angeles on its way to the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, next month. Yet to release a major label EP (coming this spring), the Rescues have already been featured on a number of TV shows and in films. Nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter Schwartz, herself a rising star on the KCRW-FM (89.9) and TV soundtrack circuits, will open. The Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd. $10 in advance, $12 at the door. 8 p.m. (310) 276-6168. www.troubadour.com.

BOOKS

Joseph Stiglitz What with the current state of unemployment, it’s doubtful that Americans are in much of a mood to contemplate more bad news, but the economist is still ringing the death knell on the global economy as we know it. The Nobel Prize winner will discuss his latest book, “Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy,” with Los Angeles Times editor-at-large Jim Newton. Aloud at the Central Library, 630 W. 5th St., (213) 228-7500. 7 p.m. www.lfla.org.