After nearly two decades, Mazzy Star is making its highly anticipated return with a new album, Seasons of Your Day. In support of that record, the band is coming to Denver on Sunday, November 10, for a show at the Ogden Theatre. Tickets ($35) go on sale this Saturday, September 14, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what other shows are on sale, what songs are being played on local radio and what’s selling at local record stores.
See also: Our constantly updated, super comprehensive Denver concert calendar
As previously reported, Kanye West brings his Yeezus tour to the Pepsi Center on Sunday, November 3 (tickets go on sale on Friday, September 13, at 10 a.m.) and Jay Z brings his Magna Carta tour to the Pepsi Center on Monday, December 2, and tickets ($29.50-$125) go on sale Thursday, September 12, at 10 a.m.
Jonas Brothers are returning to the Mile High City for headlining date at the Bellco Theater on Friday, November 1, and tickets ($39.50-$79.50) go on sale on Saturday, September 14, at 10 a.m.
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy comes to the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, December 5, as part of his eight-city solo tour. Tickets, which start at $46, go on sale on Friday, September 13, at 10 a.m.
NEW SHOWS / ON SALE DATES
Jonas Brothers: With Bonnie McKee, Fri., Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m., $39.50-$79.50.
Cute Is What We Aim For: With Anarbor, Tallhart, Sun., Oct. 13, 7 p.m., $12/$14.
Jeremy Messersmith: Thu., Oct. 17, 7 p.m., $10.
Red: Fri., Sept. 27, 8 p.m., $15/$20.
Dark Tranquility: Fri., Feb. 14, 9 p.m., $23/$26.
Jimkata: Thu., Nov. 21, 9 p.m., $10/$15.
Nuns of Brixton: Fri., Dec. 27, 9 p.m., $11-$15.
Railbenders: Sat., Dec. 21, 9 p.m., $20/$25.
RJD2: Fri., Jan. 31, 9 p.m., $22-$25.
Something Underground (CD release): Sat., Dec. 7, 9 p.m., $10/$15.
The Last Waltz Revisited: Featuring Polytoxic, Fri., Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m., $15/$17.50.
Big Gigantic: Fri., Sept. 27, 9 p.m., $35/$40.
EOTO: Sat., Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., $27.50/$30.
Family Values Tour: With Korn, Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria, Machine Gun Kelly, Beware of Darkness, Tue., Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.
Carnage: Wed., Oct. 30, 8:30 p.m., $20.
Earl Sweatshirt: Tue., Oct. 22, 8:30 p.m., $20.
Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons: With Jeff Crosby & the Refugees, Fri., Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m., $10/$12.
The Main Squeeze: Wed., Nov. 20, 8:30 p.m., $10/$12.
The Wood Brothers: Fri., Dec. 6, 7 p.m., $20/$22.
Vanessa Carlton: Thu., Nov. 21.
The Wood Brothers: Sat., Dec. 7, 9 p.m., $20.
Bernhoft: Wed., Nov. 6, 9 p.m., $20.75/$25.
Butch Walker: Tue., Oct. 15, 9 p.m., $22.50/$25.
Help is on the Way: With Tomahawk Fox and Water Babys, Sat., Sept. 28, 8 p.m., $8/$10.
In the Whale (CD release): Fri., Nov. 22, $13/$15.
Supersuckers: Thu., Oct. 10, 9 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 11, 9 p.m., $13/$15.
The Casualties: With Negative Approach, MDC, The Swellers, Sat., Nov. 23, $16/$20.
No Fair Fights: Thu., Oct. 3, $8/$10.
Scale the Summit: With the Reign of Kindo and JOLLY, Wed., Nov. 13, $12-$14.
Blackberry Smoke: Sat., Nov. 9, 9 p.m., $20.
Figure & Crizzly: Fri., Nov. 29, 9 p.m., $25/$30.
The Last Waltz Revisited: Wed., Nov. 27, 8:30 p.m., $23.50.
Mazzy Star: Sun., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $35.
Steve Aoki: With Waka Flocka Flame and Borgore, Sat., Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., $39.75/$50.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue: Thu., Dec. 26, 8 p.m.; Fri., Dec. 27, 8 p.m., $35.75/2-day passes $60.
Jeff Tweedy: Thu., Dec. 5, 8 p.m., $46.
Jay Z: Mon., Dec. 2, $29.50-$125.
Kanye West: With Kendrick Lamar, Sun., Nov. 3, 7 p.m., Tickets start at $29.50.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Sun., Nov. 17, 3 & 7:30 p.m., $34-$68.
3OH!3: With The Summer Set, Wallpaper, New Beat Fund, Sat., Nov. 16, $22/$24.
Continue reading for this week’s Local Radio Playlists.
We’re currently tracking the playlists from a number of different shows, including KTCL’s Locals Only, 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 this week.)
9.8.13
Monroe Monroe – “Sleepy Rose”
Photo Atlas – “Memory Like a Sinking Ship”
You Me & Apollo – “Circles & Graves”
Places – “Honesty”
Everai – “The Cycle”
Nate Rateliff & the Night Sweats – “Look It Here”
Lola Black – “Better Left Unsaid”
Quitters Anonymous – “First Time”
Ivory Circle – “Scarlet Letter Girl”
A Shoreline Dream – “February Truth”
Sauna – “The Glam”
El Toro de la Muerte – “Dancer”
9.7.13
Boenzee Cryque – “Still In Love With You Baby”
Zephyr – “I Am Not Surprised”
a. Tom Collins – “Mambo”
3 Twins – “Little Bird”
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats – “Thunder On the Mountain”
Meniskus – “The Equalizer”
Lion Drome – “Curve of the Earth”
OneRepublic – “Light It Up”
Pretty Lights – “Around the Block (feat. Talib Kweli)”
Gabrielle Louise – “Colours”
Newcomers Home – “Hold On”
GogoLab – “Honey Trap”
Cory Harris – “Got to Be A Better Way”
India.Arie – “Slow Down”
Flobots – “The Rose and the Thistle”
12 Cents for Marvin – “Russian Roulette (Tragedy Version)”
Dubskin – “Warrior Stomp”
Head for The Hills – “Never Does”
Thom Chacon – “Ain’t Gonna Take Us Alive”
Patti Fiasco – “Small Town Lights”
Yonder Mountain String Band – “Criminal”
Wendy Woo Band – “Hold On”
Danny Shafer – “I Am”
Fingers of the Sun – “The Leaves Were So Green”
Jim Stranahan – “I’ve Got No Rhythm in My Feet”
9.9.13
Paul Whitens – “Hey Girl”
Chuck Eaton – “Woman”
Dressy Bessy – “Call It Even”
Wes and Victoria Hamil – “Evolution Revolution”
Dave Boktel – “Sunrise”
RJ Ballard – “This Way”
The Five and Dimers – “Every Memory”
The Last Flight Out – “No Sync Blues”
ButNaked – “Right Now”
Jill Stevenson – “Let Me Know”
David Michael – “Let Up On Me”
Johnny Rhino – “Haitian Goodbye”
John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light – “In My Neighborhood”
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Top Local Sellers – Albums & Downloads
Elephant Revival’s These Changing Skies, released last week on tz Evolving Records, took the top spot at Albums on the Hill and Twist & Shout while Nine Inch Nails’s new album Hesitation Marks was number one at Independent Records and Superchunk’s latest effort, I Hate Music came in first at Wax Trax.
ALBUMS ON THE HILL
01. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
02. Elephant Revival – It’s Alive
03. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
04. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder
05. Elephant Revival – Break in the Clouds
06. Volcano Choir – Repave
07. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
08. Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind
09. Daughn Gibson – Me Moan
10. Aoife O’Donovan – Fossils
INDEPENDENT RECORDS
01. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
02. Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King
03. Tech N9ne – Something Else
04. Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side of Heaven & the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. 1
05. Twiztid – A New Nightmare
06. Jay-Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail
07. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines
08. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder
09. Juicy J – Stay Trippy
10. Tamar Braxton – Love & War
TWIST & SHOUT
01. Elephant Revival – These Changing Skies
02. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
03. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder
04. Bob Dylan – Bootleg 10 Another Self Portrait
05. Volcano Choir – Repave
06. The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
07. Okkervil River – Silver Gymnasium
08. Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
09. Superchunk – I Hate Music
10. Bastille – Bad Blood
WAX TRAX
01. Superchunk – I Hate Music
02. No Age – An Object
03. Volcano Choir – Repave
04. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
05. Ty Segall – Sleeper
06. David Lynch & Alan R. Splet – Eraserhead Soundtrack
07. Washed Out – Paracosm
08. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
09. Weekend – Jinx
10. Destruction Unit – Deep Trip
BEATPORT.COM
01. Hardwell, W&W – “Jumper”
02. TJR – “What’s Up Suckaz”
03. Madeon – “Technicolor”
04. T.I., Pharrell, Robin Thicke – “Blurred Lines”
05. Nicky Romero – “Legacy”
06. Vicetone – “Tremble”
07. Josh Butler – “Got a Feeling”
08. Quintino – “Puzzle”
09. Martin Garrix – “Animals”
10. Sander van Dorn -“Neon”
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