B.B. King seemingly has no right to be as active as he is on the touring circuit. The 85-year-old blues legend traverses the country with the regularity of a Greyhound bus, regaling crowds with his endless tales and basking in the audience’s love as he averages 250 shows a year. If, for some inexplicable reason, you still haven’t seen King at one of his dozens of Colorado concerts over the years, you’ll have another chance Jan. 22 when the Boulder Theater welcomes him back. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($77.50-$124.50, boulder )
Little Big Town is a relatively rare entity in the current country-music world in that it focuses on multipart harmonies over flashy solos, pop-leaning melodies and clever lyrics — though the Georgia-bred act is no slouch in those areas either. The band hits the Ogden Theatre Nov. 20, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($29.50-$36, Ticketmaster)
DJ Shadow has been chasing the artistic and commercial high of his brilliant debut, “Endtroducing,” since its 1996 release — although Shadow, a.k.a. California native Josh Davis, remains a compelling live act, particularly with his flashy new “Shadowsphere,” a 3-D multimedia globe gracing his new tour. He visits the Ogden Theatre on Nov. 21, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($32.50, Ticketmaster)
Steel Panther is an unapologetically trashy, tongue-in-cheek litany of ’80s hair-metal cliches so spot-on that you’d be forgiven for thinking the band was a relic of the Reagan era. The Sunset Strip prowlers are bringing their show, in all its sleazy, fluorescent glory, to the Ogden Theatre on Dec. 17, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($22-$25, Ticketmaster)
Tennis, the buzzed-about Denver indie-pop duo, has rocketed to a headlining gig at the Bluebird Theater despite having played only a handful of shows since forming. See if the act can live up to the hype when it performs there Nov. 24 with Gauntlet Hair, another Colorado act that tastemakers have lately embraced. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($10.50-$12, Ticketmaster)
No Age, the L.A. noise-rock duo known as much for its grass-roots cultural events as its lo-fi, bare-bones music, is hitting the Bluebird Theater on Dec. 1 to promote its new Sub Pop effort, “Everything in Between” ($12.75-$14). Also announced for the Bluebird: London’s One eskimO (Oct. 24, $13-$15), Texas sister act Eisley (Nov. 9, $15-$20), sprawling Canadian indie-pop group Stars (Nov. 16, $20.75-$25), newgrass jam band Hot Buttered Rum (Nov. 17, $18-$20), and the co-headlining bill of Los Angeles group Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Brazil’s Os Mutantes (Nov. 23, $20-$25). Shows are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday via Ticketmaster.
