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Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, December shows by Beats Antique and Pretty Lights were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Veronica, Vices I Admire, INCA and Hazel Miller all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores, new and...
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Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, December shows by Beats Antique and Pretty Lights were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Veronica, Vices I Admire, INCA and Hazel Miller all got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores, new and recent releases from the Wilco, Feist, Wayne Static and Dum Dum Girls were among this week's top sellers. Click through for a complete rundown.


This Just In: New Concerts and On-sale Dates


Beats Antique, who just released Elektrafone last week, headlines the Fillmore Auditorium for a Conscious Alliance holiday benefit with Tipper, Alex Grey and Lynx on Saturday, December 3. Tickets ($27.50/$30) go on sale on Saturday, October 15 at 10 a.m. Pretty Lights will be at the 1STBANK Center for a two-night New Year's stint on Friday and Saturday, December 30 and 31. Porter Robinson and Supervision open Friday night and ZEDD and Paul Basic open Saturday night. Tickets ($45/$55) go on sale on Friday, October 14 at 10 a.m.


BLUEBIRD THEATER


Dirtyphonics: Thu., Nov. 24, 9:30 p.m., $20/$25. Everlast: Wed., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., $17.50/$20. Jerry Joseph and Wally Ingram: Thu., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $14/$16. Tea Leaf Green: Sat., Jan. 14, 9 p.m., $20.75/$22. YES. Snowboards Premier After-Party: Thu., Nov. 17, 9:30 p.m., $5. CANCELED: The Boxer Rebellion: With Canon Blue, Wed., Nov. 2, 8 p.m., $15


BOULDER THEATER


Buds for Boobies: Tue., Oct. 25, 7 p.m., $12.50. Leo Kottke: Fri., Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m., $25-$45.


CERVANTES' MASTERPIECE


Lazer Sword: With Heyoka, Archnemesis, Dam Funk, Gladkill, Sugarpill, Stephan Jacobs and more, Sat., Nov. 12. Michal Menert & Gramatik: With Supervision and Paul Basic, Wed., Nov. 23. Garage A Tois: Sat., Dec. 17.


FOX THEATRE


Art 4 the People: Fri., Nov. 25.


FILLMORE AUDITORIUM


Beats Antique: With Tipper, Alex Grey and Lynx, Sat., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., $27.50/$30.


1STBANK CENTER


Pretty Lights: With Porter Robinson and Supervision (12/30) and ZEDD and Paul Basic (12/31), Dec. 30-31, 8:30 p.m., $45.


GOTHIC THEATER


Brett Gelman: Thu., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $15/$17. Jeremih: With Dre Lane, Wed., Nov. 2, 8 p.m., $29/$33. Corey Taylor (of Slipknot): Sat., Nov. 19, 9 p.m., $25/$28.


HI-DIVE


Centro-Matic: With Polica, Sat., Nov. 12, $10.


LARIMER LOUNGE


Nicole Atkins: Sat., Dec. 10, $12. Kathryn Calder: Mon., Nov. 7, $10. That 1 Guy: Mon., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $15.75/$18. Rachael Yamagata: Wed., Nov. 16, $18.


L2 ARTS & CULTURE CENTER


Tom Rush: Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m., $26.


MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ


Reviving Cecilia: With In the Whale and Ancient Mariner, Fri., Nov. 4, 9 p.m., $5. Thee Oh Sees: With Total Control and Sauna, Wed., Oct. 26, 9 p.m., $8/$10.


SWALLOW HILL


Elizabeth Cook: Fri., Jan. 13, 8 p.m., $18. Matt Flinner Trio & Grant Gordy Quartet: Sat., Feb. 25, 8 p.m., $17.



Click through for this week's Local Radio Playlists

We're currently tracking the playlists from a number of different shows, including KTCL's Locals Only, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show, The Colorado Sound, an independently produced show that is broadcast all over Colorado, and The Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country. Here's what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. *Playlist not available


LOCALS ONLY (KTCL)
10.09.11

Novus Folium - "Knights on Fire" Able Archer - "Soyuz II" Swayback - "Concrete Blocks" Wire Faces - "Magic Mountain" Until Midnight - "Within Reach & Reason" Calibrate Me - "2 Years Faster" DubSkin - "Warrior Stomp" Tennis - "Marathon" Inherit Earth - "Suckerpunch" Veronica - "Allison & Andrew" Instant Empire - "Marco Polo" Quitters Anonymous - "Bleed Out"


99.5 THE MOUNTAIN HOMEGROWN SHOW (KQMT)
10.11.11

My Blind Alley - "Mystery" Love Lies - "Whirlpool" Garden Weasels - "Uncoil Your Nose" Scott Brainerd - "Terminal Empathy" Mixed Breed - "Deja Vu" Chris Daniels & the Kings - "An American Tragedy" Romano Paoletti - "Can You Run" The Informants - "Hold Back" John Bunzli - "The Well" Vices I Admire - "Sweetest Girl"


THE COLORADO SOUND
10.08.11

The Soul Thieves "Starting Tonight" Cassie Taylor "Keys" The Aunteaters "If the Tele Took Teardrops" The Bimarinal "Move Me" Constitution "Broken Down" Bop Skizzum "Beauty Queen" Fierce Bad Rabbit "Everything's Alright" Post Paradise "The Ghost in the Airwaves" Juno What?! "Late Night" Big Jim Adam & John Stilwagen "When It Started to Rain" Julie Hoest "Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight" Andy Ard "That's What She Did to Me" Carmen Sandim Sextet "Feliz" Mercury Project "Refuge" Beats Noir! "Bad Beats" Shel "Ruby Slippers" Spring Creek "Evening Turns to Ashes" Great American Taxi "Poor House" Slim Cessna's Auto Club "My Last Black Scarf" Andy Palmer "I Died Today" INCA "Eye of the Storm" Andy Monley "Anything" Jim McTurnan & the Kids That Killed the Man "Don't Count Me Out" Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck "Queen of this Mess" Zach Heckendorf "All the Right Places" Jim Stranahan "Hip Street"


THE COLORADO WAVE
10.10.11

Julian Shome - Escapism Little Hercules - Cool Ride Soul Rabbit - Blue Skies Forever Liz Barnez ~ Whiskey Bay Chupacabra - Soledad The Visitors - Down In The City Just Jinjer - She Knows Hans York - Lives Apart Hazel Miller - Do Go On JP White - Trailer Queen 5 On Tap - A Voice From The Crowd The Smackers - I Go Blind



Click through for this week's Top Sellers


Top Local Sellers - Albums & Downloads


Wilco's The Whole Love stayed on top at Albums on the Hill and moves down to the second spot at Twist & Shout, while Feist's latest effort, Metals, debuted at number one at Twist & Shout and came in second at Albums on the Hill. An in-store appearance helped Wayne Static's Pighammer come in on top at Independent Records, and the Dum Dum Girls came in first at Wax Trax.


ALBUMS ON THE HILL


01. Wilco - The Whole Love
02. Feist - Metals
03. DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, the Better
04. Superheavy - Superheavy
05. Blessthefall - Awakening
06. The Misfits - Devil's Rain
07. Indigo Girls - Beauty Queen Sister
08. Jack's Mannequin - People and Things
09. Johnny Winter - Roots
10. New Found Glory - Radiosurgery


INDEPENDENT RECORDS


01. Wayne Static - Pighammer
02. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
03. J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story
04. Adele - 21
05. Blink-182 - Neighborhoods
06. Game - The R.E.D. Album
07. Primus - Green Naugahyde
08. Foster the People - Torches
09. Machine Head - Unto the Locust
10. Mastodon - Hunter


TWIST & SHOUT


01. Feist - Metals
02. Wilco - The Whole Love
03. Various - Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
04. The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
05. Foster the People - Torches
06. Blink-182 - Neighborhoods

07. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
08. Adele - 21
09. Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee 10. Indigo Girls - Beauty Queen Sister


WAX TRAX


01. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
02. Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town
03. Neon Indian - Era Extrana
04. Feist - Metals
05. William Shatner - Seeking Major Tom
06. Various Artists - Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
07. We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
08. Beirut - Riptide
09. Zola Jesus - Conatus
10. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost


BEATPORT.COM


01. Eric Prydz - "2Night" (original mix)
02. Miguel Campbell - "Something Special" (original mix)
03. Zedd - "Shave It" (original mix)
04. Stefano Noferini - "Fact" (original mix)
05. Fedde Le Grand - "So Much Love'" (original club mix)
06. Greg Gregor Salto, Chuckie - "What Happens in Vegas'"
07. Maceo Plex - "Can't Leave You" (original mix)'
08. TJR - "One Love" (original mix)
09. Sander Van Doorn - "Drink to Get Drunk" (extended mix)
10. Basto - "Again and Again" (original mix)


RELATED LINKS


Angelo's Black & Red Atomic Records (formerly Cheapo Discs) Vinyl Collective



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