Prog-rock is alive and well in the hands of Steven Wilson, who plays the Berklee Performance Center on Friday in support of new album Hand. Cannot. Erase. Opening his U.S. tour at the Worcester Palladium on Tuesday, the British singer/guitarist unspooled dynamic, lushly layered songs that mulled loss and regret to backing films and animation, a darkly atmospheric package that evoked Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis and Tool. Wilson lent his own winsome voice and melodic sensibility with a robust band that included guitarist David Kilminster, last seen atop The Wall with Roger Waters. Elsewhere on Friday, on a contemporary jazz note, the Chicago-bred pianist Ramsey Lewis rolls into Scullers Jazz Club to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of his album The In Crowd!

Otherwise, the weekend’s all about the heavyweight rock fest Boston Calling, which opens Friday evening with a triple bill of Beck, Tame Impala and Sharon Van Etten on City Hall Plaza. I particularly love Boston Calling at night, when the sun and wind disappear to offer less distraction and improved acoustics, and light shows dot the face of City Hall. However, there’s plenty to see the rest of the weekend, with near-continuous music from two alternating stages starting about 1 p.m. – and the ability to skip a band or two for a break. Saturday highlights include Boston’s own skewed rockers Krill, hip-hop shakers Run the Jewels, coolly efficient art-rocker St. Vincent and heady rock headliners My Morning Jacket, while Sunday offers the Lone Bellow (jump here for my recent interview), Lucius (filling in for the ill Chet Faker before the band returns to play the ICA in August), alt-rockers TV on the Radio and Boston’s own triumphant Pixies. Here’s the full lineup with set times.

Speaking of a break from Boston Calling, Sunday also offers a nearby diversion at Ned Devine’s in Faneuil Hall with Listen Local, a free program of great local bands that was formerly given the playful tag Boston Clawing. Among the bands working the stages at the Irish pub between 5:30 p.m. and closing will be Tigerman WOAH (a Boston Calling alumnus), Le Roxy Pro, Feints, Reverse, Band Without Hands and Rumble finalist the Static Dynamic. Memorial Day will be a day of rest — except for the end to the traditional four-day Campfire Festival (with dozens of performers including Rose Polenzani, Dietrich Strause and the Novel Ideas) at Club Passim.

Oh, and if you can’t wait until an Oct. 29 TD Garden date, the Who brings its greatest-hits farewell tour to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Sunday. Just don’t blow marijuana smoke near Roger Daltrey’s sensitive voice – he just stopped a show on Long Island over that.