Colorado boasts many things: gorgeous scenery, world-class recreation, educated residents, myriad sports teams. But we don’t have a rock-music festival on par with Bonnaroo or Coachella.
That is, until the Monolith Festival announced its lineup earlier this week. The Sept. 14-15 festival at Red Rocks Amphitheatre continues to cement its long roster, but the impressive headliners are set.
Summer concert faves and indie heroes the Flaming Lips, Cake, the Decemberists, Spoon, Kings of Leon and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah barely scratch the surface. Local heroes like Born in the Flood, Angie Stevens, Cat-a-Tac, Gregory Alan Isakov and the Swayback also will help fill the festival’s five stages.
Will this be the premier outdoor concert event of the year? Does the weather change every five minutes in Colorado?
Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. June 2. ($42.50-$175, Ticketmaster)
Chris Cornell has always played the frontman in his various bands, but his career spans genres and projects. From grunge godfather (Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog) to hard rocker (Audioslave) to singer-songwriter (solo work), the throaty vocalist has rarely stood still. Cornell will perform songs from the entirety of his 13-album career when he hits the Fillmore Auditorium on July 14. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($37.75, Ticketmaster)
Sevendust makes an easy critical target, mostly because it took Eddie Vedder’s vocal affectations and Alice in Chains’ crunchy guitars and ran with them all the way to the bank. Sevendust is half as good as those bands’ worst albums, but that didn’t stop it from selling 4 million records. The band plays Colorado Springs’ City Auditorium on June 26. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($22.50, Ticketmaster)
The Killers’ highly anticipated show at Red Rocks was cut short last week when singer Brandon Flowers’ voice gave out, and fans were having none of it. The show has been rescheduled for Sept. 4, when all original tickets will be honored. (Ticketmaster)
