Bon Jovi is one of those rare ’80s-bred pop-rock bands as popular now as during its heyday. Take this week’s tour release: The group already has 45 international dates scheduled through the end of April, including 10 in its home state of New Jersey. Check here next week for the skinny on Bon Jovi’s March 31 Pepsi Center show. Tickets are expected to go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 10.
Mannheim Steamroller knows it just wouldn’t be Christmas without its hilariously flashy, synth-driven holiday music, so the group and its 22-piece orchestra will stop by the Pepsi Center on Dec. 17 to support its CD “Christmas Song” (just guess what it’s about). Keep your eye out for the 2,000-square-foot Christmas Village and costumed characters – as if you could miss them. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. ($30-$154, Ticketmaster)
Colbie Caillat hails from California, but you may have guessed that from her sunny-sounding name. The 22-year-old singer is touring off her Myspace success, which found her gathering 27 million plays in a matter of months. Caillat hits the Paramount Theatre Dec. 21. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($20, Ticket-Horse)
Disney on Ice’s latest show, “Princess Wishes,” is tailor-made for every girl who ever wanted to be Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Snow White or the myriad female protagonists in Disney’s seemingly endless stable. Tickets for the show’s Dec. 7-16 run at the Denver Coliseum are on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday. ($15-$72, Ticketmaster)
Marc Cohn will head up etown’s Dec. 16 taping as the Boulder-based radio show moves from its familiar environs to Fort Collins’ Lincoln Center. Tickets for the interview/performance, which includes artist Brandi Carlile, are on sale now. ($25, )
Reverend Horton Heat’s dependable psychobilly will be bolstered by a like-minded band with Nashville in its name when Heat hits the Bluebird Theater on Jan. 13. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($25, Ticketmaster)
The subdudes’ New Orleans sound, which draws on the spectrum of R&B, jazz and rock, has only grown more insistent with each release, culminating on August’s powerful “Street Symphony.” The group plays the Ogden Theatre Jan. 26. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($25, Ticketmaster)
Jason Aldean brings his upstart country tunes to the Ogden Theatre on Jan. 19, with openers Eli Young Band. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($27.50, Ticketmaster)
Neil Hamburger’s Larimer Lounge show on Nov. 9 promises to be a maelstrom of painfully funny absurdism, with Seattle mock-band Pleaseeasaur and Denver’s own Magic Cyclops and Ben Kronberg in tow. Tickets for the indie comedy maelstrom are available now. ($10, bigmarks )
