Mile High Music Festival announced more artists for its July 18-19 party at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, and Colorado is again well-represented. Local heroes Big Head Todd & the Monsters and DeVotchKa join previously announced Front Range acts the Fray, 3OH!3, the Northern Way (formerly Set Forth) and Paper Bird. Also announced this week: Thievery Corporation, Pepper, Jack’s Mannequin, Matt Nathanson and Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real. They join Tool, Widespread Panic, Gov’t Mule, Ben Harper, Incubus and others. Tickets are available now. ($90-$162.50, TicketHorse)
blink-182 passes are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for the band’s Sept. 6 show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre with Weezer, Taking Back Sunday and Chester French — including a limited number of “no fee” $20 lawn tickets. ($20-$63, Ticketmaster)
Pete Yorn’s “Back and Fourth,” which drops later this month, continues the singer-songwriter’s tradition of working with credibility-lending artists — in this case, Saddle Creek/Bright Eyes go-to guy Mike Mogis and Grammy-winning producer Rick Rubin. Yorn’s tour behind the new album hits the Ogden Theatre on Aug. 15. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($22.50, Ticketmaster)
Staind brings its “Stimulate This!” jaunt to the Fillmore Auditorium on Aug. 13, featuring support from Shinedown, Chevelle and Hale- storm. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($45-$42.50, )
Blue October rarely strays from Denver too long, as evidenced by its upcoming July 27 show at the Fillmore, less than four months after the group’s Ogden Theatre show in April. Passes for the concert with Switchfoot and Longwave are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($32.50, )
Tesla initially fared better than its hair metal brethren when it went bust after the late ’80s/early ’90s commercial boom. Now the soft-voiced hard rockers are returning to the Ogden on Sept. 12, a little less than two years after the last stop here. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today ($35, Ticketmaster)
Ratt and Extreme are another pair of coiffed ’80s leftovers making their next Colorado stand at the Ogden on July 22. We’re starting to wonder what year this is. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($29.75, Ticketmaster)
3 Doors Down is more than a year past the release of its most recent, self-titled album, but that isn’t stopping the Mississippi-bred act from touring, including a date at the Fillmore on July 16 with SafetySuit and Parachute. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($45, )
