Tool has a lot of love for Denver, judging by the frequency of its shows here. Besides headlining the first (and best) night of last year’s Mile High Music Festival, the art-metal group, led by inscrutable singer Maynard James Keenan, has rocked the Pepsi Center, Coors Amphitheatre (now Comfort Dental) and even the stately Buell Theatre the last few years. The band returns with a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre July 28- 29. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($52.50-$69.50, Ticketmaster)
Norah Jones, perhaps the musical antithesis of Tool’s grim, guitar-driven diatribes, will also headline Red Rocks this summer. Tickets for the multiplatinum pop vocalist’s Aug. 19 concert, with opener Corinne Bailey Rae, are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($39.75-$65, Ticketmaster)
Limp Bizkit is reuniting with its original lineup for an Aug. 5 concert at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre — its first big tour in nearly a decade, and one that’s designed to promote “Gold Cobra,” its first full-length since 2003’s “Results May Vary.” The real question about the horrendous rap-rock band, led by clueless meathead Fred Durst, is whether anyone will care. Tickets for the show, with opener Ice Cube, are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($20-$49.50, Ticketmaster)
Toby Keith, the chest-thumping pop-country singer and ostensible Ford F-series spokesman, will bring his two-stage “American Ride” show to Comfort Dental on Aug. 13, with openers Trace Adkins and James Otto. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($19-$69.50, Ticketmaster)
Erykah Badu brings her “Out My Mind, Just in Time” tour to the Fillmore Auditorium on June 16. Tickets for the show, with opener Janelle Monae, are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday ($35- $40). Also announced for the Fillmore this week: Silversun Pickups (July 26, $30) and the Black Crowes’ 20th anniversary tour (Aug. 29, $50). All shows are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ()
Adam Lambert, as critics like to point out, got a raw deal as runner up on “American Idol’s” eighth season. Then again, does anyone still care about winner Kris Allen? (Allen is, after all, opening for Barenaked Ladies at Red Rocks on July 12.) Tickets for Lambert’s July 17 Paramount Theatre show, with opener Allison Iraheta, are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($39.50, TicketHorse)
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s career longevity is something of a puzzle to those who never fell for the musical parodist’s bright-eyed, occasionally brilliant takes on everyone from Michael Jackson and Madonna to Dr. Dre and Chamillionaire. That’s never stopped Yankovic, however, as evidenced by his latest round of extensive summer touring. Tickets for his July 29 show at the Paramount are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($29.50-$49.50, TicketHorse)
