Phish fans in Colorado have lately been feasting on their favorite band. In addition to a sold-out, four-day stint at Red Rocks last year, the insanely popular jam act played back-to- back gigs in Telluride Aug. 9-10. And as Denver Post pop music critic Ricardo Baca first reported earlier this week, the Vermont group will now play Broomfield’s 1stBank Center Oct. 10-12. An online ticket-request period is underway at and ends at 10 a.m. Sept. 3. The public on-sale begins at noon on Sept. 11. ($60, TicketHorse)
Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegria” will sweep across the Front Range early next year, starting with a Jan. 12-16 run at Colorado Springs’ World Arena, followed by Jan. 19-23 shows at the 1stBank Center and Jan. 26-30 at Loveland’s Budweiser Events Center. Tickets for the shows, which feature 55 performers and musicians from 17 countries, are on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. ($28-$94; , tickethorse , )
Joan Sebastian returns to the Pepsi Center a little over a year after the Mexican superstar last played there, this time with El Chapo de Sinaloa and Jose Manuel Figueroa. Tickets for the Oct. 24 concert are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($49-$129, TicketHorse)
B.o.B. last hit Denver supporting hip-hop darling Lupe Fiasco, but the Southern rapper returns to the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 10 to headline. (He also headlines the Boulder Theater on Oct. 9; tickets via .) Passes for Denver are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($30- $35, Ticketmaster)
Joe Satriani heads up the 2010 Wormhole Tour, with guests Ned Evett and Triple Double. It visits the Paramount Theatre on Dec. 31 as the noted rock guitarist tours behind his very metal-sounding new album “Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards.” Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($40-$65, TicketHorse)
Best Coast is just one of many beach-and- surf-themed bands saturating the hipster music world (see Wavves, Surfer Blood, Denver’s own Tennis, etc.), but it’s also got the talent to back up the tsunami of blog hype. The L.A. band plays the Bluebird Theater Nov. 3 ($11-$15). Also announced at the Bluebird: British post-punk act the Futureheads (Oct. 9, $12), indie buzz bands Surfer Blood and the Drums (Oct. 10, $13-$17) and the darkly seductive Phantogram (Oct. 19, $11-$15). All tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday via Ticketmaster.
Pavement, despite living in the bosom of ’90s nostalgia, just doesn’t have the ticket sales to justify its 1stBank Center show, so the band is moving its Sept. 9 set to the much smaller Ogden Theatre. Also downgrading from 1stBank to the Ogden: British trance DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold on Nov. 5. (Ticketmaster)
