Black Keys, JAS Labor Day and more
Blues-revival duo The Black Keys this week announced a 31-date North American tour with openers Modest Mouse and *Repeat Repeat — including a Pepsi Center stop in Denver. Tickets for the Sept. 23 concert are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($39.50-$499.50, altitudetickets.com) R&B group B2K’s Millennium Tour is also hitting the Pepsi Center, and with a lot of help. The May 23 show includes support from Mario, Pretty Ricky, Lloyd, Bobby V, Ying Yang Twins and Chingy. Tickets for the all-ages show went on sale last week. ($49.50-$119.50, altitudetickets.com) The lineup for the annual JAS Labor Day Experience in Aspen and Snowmass has been finalized, with performances from Weezer and Portugal. The Man (Aug. 30), John Mayer, Luke Combs and ZZ Ward (Aug. 31), and Sting, H.E.R. and Turkuaz (Sept. 1). Tickets for the pricey but always worthy fundraising event — which this year is switching to AXS Flash Mobile Delivery for all its general-admission and deck tickets — are on sale. ($110-$320 single-day tickets; $280-$775 three-day passes, axs.com/jasaspen) Mumford & Sons has added a second night to its previously announced Aug. 15 concert at Greenwood Village’s Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, which is already sold out. Tickets for the new, Aug. 16 show are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($40-$99.50, axs.com) The nebulously defined but ethereal All Day I Dream electronic-music concert/ quasi-spiritual gathering will return to
Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on June 1 with appearances from Hoj, Roy Rosenfeld, Newman and organizer/DJ Lee Burridge. Tickets for the all-ages, free-spirited event are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($35-$40, alldayidream.com) Memphis-born rapper Juicy J, who had a brief yet memorable turn on Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” (among dozens of other high-profile collaborations), will headline the Ogden Theatre on April 20, when the clouds of pot smoke may just be thick enough to write your name in. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($40-$45, axs.com) As reported in The Denver Post earlier this week, comic titans Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart are making good on their promise to co-headline more dates together. Lucky for us, one of those is at Red Rocks on Aug. 9. Tickets for the show, which will assuredly (and quickly) sell out, are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($69.75-$169.75, axs.com) New Orleans roots-rockers The Revivalists are heading to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sept. 21 with an opening set from Anderson East. Tickets for the show are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($49.50-$79.50, axs.com) Handily proving its local draw, Illenium has added a third night to its Red
Rocks stint, with tickets for the new, Oct. 10, all-ages concert (preceding the sold-out, Oct. 11-12 shows) on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($44.50-$85, axs.com) Also at Red Rocks: Boulder’s own jamtronica act Big Gigantic is headlining a pair of nights , with opening acts Two
Friends, The Funk Hunters and Biocratic (Sept. 27) and Kasbo, Flamingosis and ilo ilo (Sept. 28). Tickets for the all-ages dance marathons are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($48-$91, axs.com) Consistently solid and occasionally spectacular singer-songwriter Suzanne
Vega returns to Colorado to bring her vibrato-less voice to the Boulder Theater on July 31. Tickets for the show are on sale at 10 a.m. March 22. ($30-$35, bouldertheater.com)