HOT TIX
KS107.5’s Summer Jam will bring hip- hop luminaries to Coors Amphitheatre on June 10 for a jam-packed day of music. Headliner Snoop Dogg will be joined by Twista, Chamillionaire, Chris Brown, Paul Wall, E-40, T-Pain and others. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($28.50-$53.50, Ticketmaster)
Tool assured its position in the pantheon of ’90s hard-rock gods long before it splintered into weaker projects like A Perfect Circle. The groundbreaking band will play the Buell Theatre on May 10, about a week after its new album, “10,000 Days,” drops. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($66.66, Ticketmaster)
Fiona Apple rewarded die-hard fans and reinforced her mainstream appeal with last year’s uneven but well-received “Extraordinary Machine.” The Grammy-winning ivory tickler hits City- Lights Pavilion on July 5. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($39.75-$59.75, Ticketmaster)
Gipsy Kings’ progressive, pop-oriented flamenco has introduced strains of traditional Spanish music to audiences worldwide. Tickets for the band’s July 15 CityLights Pavilion show go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($45- $100, Ticketmaster)
Ashlee Simpson’s pop-star appeal no doubt is heavily dependent on her older sister Jessica’s, and promoters may be wildly overestimating it by booking her at the 18,000-seat Coors Amphitheatre. See if she still lip-syncs her tracks when she comes to Colorado on June 13 with The Veronicas. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($27-$39.50, Ticketmaster)
– John Wenzel
