Billy Joel boasts a catalog of modern standards as wide and beloved as any, which is why the Piano Man has little use for new material, letting live albums, retrospectives and singles leak only occasionally over the years. Still, Joel has toured a lot lately, and he swings by the Pepsi Center on Feb. 28, his first Denver show since 2001. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($33.50-$99, Ticketmaster)
Van Halen firmed up its on-sale info for a Feb. 1 Pepsi Center date, announcing this week that tickets for the reunion tour with David Lee Roth are available at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($49.50- $149.50, Ticketmaster)
OneRepublic is arguably the biggest band on the radio right now, its single “Apologize” inescapable except in hyperbaric chambers and on top of fourteeners. The Colorado Springs- bred pop act, which rose via a bouncy Timbaland remix earlier this year, announced a Jan. 18 show at Gothic Theatre. Tickets are available at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($18, Ticketmaster) Etta James nearly demolished Red Rocks when she played there in September with B.B. King and Al Green — impressive, considering she turns 70 next month. Even more impressive is that she can’t get enough of touring, announcing a March 29 concert at the Paramount Theatre with her Roots Band. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($39.75-$75, TicketHorse)
Mannheim Steamroller, which plays its annual holiday show Dec. 17 at the Pepsi Center, announced an April 22 date at the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland. Tickets for the Fresh Aire show are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($33-$53, )
Lupe Fiasco is one of the more exhilarating new voices in hip-hop, slaying the crowd before a Roots show here in February and justifying the praise he’s gotten from the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye West. Tickets for his Jan. 20 show at the Gothic Theatre are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($30, Ticketmaster)
Galactic brings its “From the Corner to the Block” tour to the Fillmore Auditorium on Feb. 15 to support the album of the same name, which features a number of stellar hip-hop guest emcees. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($25, Ticketmaster)
Meat Puppets announced they will open for Colorado’s own Rose Hill Drive when the latter plays its Dec. 30-31 shows at the Boulder Theater. Rose Hill will perform Aerosmith’s “Toys in the Attic” in its entirety before playing a set of originals. Tickets are on sale now. ($20-$29 or $41 for a two-day pass, )
Sound Tribe Sector 9 will make its indoor Front Range appearance (it played Red Rocks in September) Jan. 25 and 26. Tickets for the socially conscious jam band’s show are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($26-$30, Ticketmaster) Wu-Tang Clan’s Dec. 20 show is back on, this time at the Ogden Theatre and under the AEG Live Rocky Mountains banner. Previously held tickets should be refunded at the point of purchase, and new tickets for the show are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($37.50, Ticketmaster)
