Whatever your politics or beliefs, the polarizing nature of the global-warming debate can be entertaining stuff.
A serious issue, sure, but watching people on both sides (especially celebrities) duke it out is as weirdly amusing as the Rosie O’Donnell/Donald Trump feud.
On Tuesday, Live Earth organizer Al Gore declared his seven-continent, 24-hour music festival “officially the largest global entertainment event in history.” Right-wing detractors and talking heads immediately pounced, claiming it accomplished little.
Maybe, maybe not. You’ll have a chance to follow up with the former vice president when he visits the Wells Fargo Theatre on Oct. 2 to show his “An Inconvenient Truth” presentation in the flesh.
Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. ($150-$500, Ticketmaster)
Smashing Pumpkins’ 1993 album “Siamese Dream” soundly trounces the rest of the band’s catalog, which is why its new album, “Zeitgeist,” favors a more stripped-down, ’90s aesthetic. The Chicago band’s reunion tour hits Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sept. 30. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($49.50-$54.50, Ticketmaster)
Snoop Dogg, who has failed to produce an all-around excellent album since 1993’s “Doggystyle,” hits the Fillmore Auditorium on Sept. 4 to reinforce his hip-hop icon status. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($36, Ticketmaster)
Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson, both chart-toppers in their own right, hit the Pepsi Center on Oct. 5 with opener Jason Michael Carroll. Tickets for the powerhouse pop-country show are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($40-$75, Ticketmaster)
Maroon 5’s music is like a migraine: You can try to wish it away, but only treatment and time will wrench it from your ever-loving skull. The British pop act plays the Pepsi Center on Oct. 29 with the Hives.
Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($40.50-$50.50, Ticketmaster)
Interpol returns to the Fillmore Auditorium armed with a major-label debut, “Our Love to Admire.” Tickets for the foppish Joy Division devotees’ Oct. 14 set go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($27-$30, Ticketmaster)
Dierks Bentley and Gary Allan fall somewhere between the Bakersfield country of Merle Haggard and the slicker stuff that rules current country radio. The pair will unite for an Aug. 31 show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($39.50, Ticketmaster)
