Bassnectar and DJ Tiesto will, on separate dates, turn Broomfield’s 1stBank Center into a teeming sea of dance- and electronic-music fans this fall. Bassnectar, who played a triumphant set at the Mile High Music Festival last weekend, brings his festival- style arena show (featuring performances from Dan Deacon, Brother Ali, Nosaj Thing and more) to the 1stBank Center on Oct. 23, while the Dutch DJ Tiesto plans to visit Nov. 12. Tickets for both shows are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($35-$50, Ticket- Horse) Interpol has fallen off its perch atop the hipster music world, but the New York post-punk band is still recording albums after parting ways with Capitol Records (watch for the Sept. 7 release of its self-titled fourth record) and playing live dates, including an Oct. 25 concert at the Ogden Theatre, a venue less than half the size of the 3,700-capacity Fillmore Auditorium Interpol played when last in Denver. Tickets for the show, with opener White Rabbits, are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($32.50-$35, Ticketmaster)
DeVotchKa shows are always colorful events, as the Denver gypsy-punk-mariachi band has proven over the years. That makes DeVotchKa’s recently announced shows at the Boulder Theater Oct. 29-30 a tantalizing affair. But wait: The theater is stacking the deck by having New York gypsy-punk act Gogol Bordello headline there Oct. 27-28. Sheesh. Do we have to go to all four shows? We just might. Tickets are on sale. ($30-$35, )
Railroad Earth, another band that drew sizable crowds at the Mile High Music Festival, returns for a series of New Year’s headlining slots at the Ogden Theatre Dec. 29-Dec. 31. Passes for the Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 shows are $30 and the New Year’s Eve concert is $50. Tickets are sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. (Ticketmaster)
Paula Poundstone is never away from Denver for too long. The veteran comedian, lately heard on various National Public Radio shows, returns for an Oct. 9 concert at the University of Denver’s Newman Center to benefit public TV’s KBDI-TV 12. Tickets are on sale. ($39, Ticketmaster)
Blake Shelton is closing in on a decade of being Nashville’s biggest, latest up-and-comer, but the Oklahoma native has built a solid career since his 2001 debut album. Shelton will play the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 13 as part of the tour behind his latest release, the six-song “Hillbilly Bone” EP. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($35-$40, Ticketmaster)
