While legendary Chicago-based punk band Screeching Weasel has broken up and re-formed a number of times since being founded in 1986, frontman Ben “Weasel” Foster, the only constant member, is hitting the road with a new line-up as part of the band’s Heard You Were Dead tour, which stops at…
Jason Mraz is coming to Red Rocks on Monday, September 24, as part of his tour in support of his forthcoming album, Love is a Four Letter Word, due out Tuesday, April 17. Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter and Atlantic label mate Christina Perri opens the show. Tickets ($39.50-$59.50) go on sale to…
Skream & Benga’s show at the Ogden Theatre, originally slated for tomorrow, Wednesday, April 4, has been moved to the Bluebird Theater. All tickets for the Ogden show will be honored, and tickets ($26.50) are still available through AXS. Hijak, Plastician, Sgt Pokes and Jackmaster are set to open the…
Jimmy Cliff at the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, June 19. Tickets ($34.95 plus fees) to see the reggae legend, whose career spans five decades, go on sale this Saturday, April 7, at 10 a.m. via Axs.com. On his most recent effort, the Sacred Fire EP, released last November, Cliff collaborated…
Santigold is coming to Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, May 29. Touring in support of her forthcoming release, Master of My Make-Believe — her first release since 2008’s Santogold — due out on Tuesday, May 1, the artist otherwise known as Santi White is bound to arrive in the Mile High…
Over the last decade, 311 has brought its Unity Tour on the road during the summer with acts like Snoop Dogg, the Offspring, Sublime with Rome, Matisyahu, the Wailers and the Roots. This time around, 311 is teaming up with Slightly Stoopid again for another round of the tour, which…
After a stellar show at Fillmore in January in support of its latest release, The Whole Love, Wilco returns to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks on Friday, June 22 (with Punch Brothers) and Saturday, June 23 (with Dr. Dog). On Record Store Day (April 21), Wilco…
Lupe Fiasco is coming back to Denver for a date at City Hall Amphitheatre on Thursday, May 17 with a stellar local supporting cast, including Foodchain, Pries and DJ Mu$a. Tickets ($40-$45) for this 18 plus show are on sale now via SoCo, and if Lupe’s last show at the…
Planet Bluegrass, the Lyons-based outfit that brings you the enormously popular Telluride Bluegrass and RockyGrass, which has already sold out, and Rocky Mtn Folks Festival, which is on its way to selling out, have announced plans to host Yonder Mountain String Band this coming August. The two-day Kinfolk Celebration is…
While Red Rocks and Comfort Dental Amphitheatre are both great spots for outdoor concerts during the summer, the Mishawaka Amphitheatre, which is about ten miles northwest of Ft. Collins in Poudre Canyon, also offers a great environment for seeing shows outside. While there’s still more shows to come, the Mish…
Umphrey’s McGee at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, September 14. Hot on the heels of its show at the Fillmore a few weeks ago, we’ve received word that the band will be returning to Colorado this fall for a pair of dates, the first a two-set show at Red Rocks…
Tenacious D at Red Rocks on Thursday, July 26. This is not opinion. This is fact. The dudes are back and touring in support of Rize of the Fenix, their new album and purportedly the greatest album of all time. This, apparently, is not opinion, either, but rather fact. The…
Just announced: Pretty Lights at Red Rocks for back-to-back shows on Friday, August 17, and Saturday, August 18. Hold on to your flat-bills, dance-music aficionados: Colorado will catch the final stops on an international trek that will take Pretty Lights (born Derek Vincent Smith) all over the globe, from Santiago,…
Starting off with The Guess Who on Sunday, June 3, and closing with Super Diamond on Sunday, August 26, the Hudson Gardens summer classic rock-centric concert series includes more than a dozen acts such as Mr. “Proud to Be An American,” Lee Greenwood, on July 3 and 4, Heart on…
Crosby, Stills and Nash returns to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 21. After wrapping up dates down under and in South America, the classic rock trio will be returning to Red Rocks this summer as part of its upcoming nationwide tour, which kicks off on June 7 in Philadelphia…
After touring South America and Japan, Aerosmith brings its Global Warming Tour to the States, starting in Minneapolis in June and stopping at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, August 1, with Cheap Trick opening the show. While tickets go on sale on to the public on Friday, March 31, pre-sale…
Canadian rapper Drake is hitting the road with J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana as part of his 27-city Club Paradise Tour, which stops at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Sunday, May 13. Drake’s latest effort, Take Care, released last November on Cash Money, has…
Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, who reunited last year for the first time since 2005 to start work on a new album, just announced a sixteen-date North American tour that stops at the Temple Buell Theatre on Sunday, August 19 and then wraps up on September 7…
Update 3/21/12: Cookie Monsta’s Ogden Theatre show has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 12. Zomboy is also on the bill. Another Ogden Theatre show change to alert you to: Cookie Monsta, originally slated to perform at the Ogden on Saturday, March 24, with J Rabbit, Dodger and Dirt Monkey has…
Norah Jones, who debuted songs from her forthcoming album at SXSW last week, kicks off her North American summer tour in June in Indianaplolis and wraps it up at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 23. Her Danger Mouse-produced album, Little Broken Hearts, hits stores on May 1 via Blue Note…
Kiss and Mötley Crüe. Wednesday, August 8, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, together on the same bill. Holy crap! The twelve-year-old me would no doubt being stroking out right now upon hearing this news. As it stands, the grown up version of me is pretty excited, too, truth be told. Tickets, which…
Update 3/20/12: Great news if you missed out on getting tickets to Bassnectar’s sold out show at Red Rocks on Saturday, June 2. Another date has been added on Friday, June 1! Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 23, at 10 a.m. Bassnectar at Red Rocks: Confirmed! At SnowBall…
