Now on sale
Phish tickets sell like hotcakes pretty much anywhere, but the Vermont jam band seems to make us especially hungry in Colorado, where the group has played Red Rocks, the 1stBank Center and even Telluride Town Park over the past couple years. Passes for Phish’s Sept. 2-4 stint at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park are on sale at 10 a.m. on June 4, but to mitigate the inevitable rush, promoters have created an online ticket-request period (underway now) at , through May 23. Happy hunting, hungry phans. ($47.50-$60, TicketHorse)
Carlos Santana and George Lopez are staging a big-name version of a concept that dates back to both vaudeville and Santana’s Bill Graham-promoted beginnings in the late ’60s: the musical-comedy variety show. The pair will co-headline Red Rocks Amphitheatre Sept. 3-4 as part of their “Divine Rascals” tour, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday . ($45-$100, Ticketmaster)
Slightly Stoopid’s laidback tunes, which range from stoner ska to acoustic pop and hip-hop, will invade Red Rocks on Aug. 6, with openers Rebelution, Shwayze and Cisco Adler. Tickets for the SoCal band’s “Seedless Summer 2011” tour are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($37.50, Ticketmaster)
Doug Benson’s marijuana-themed humor goes over well on the weed-friendly Front Range, which is why the L.A. comedian and star of the half-serious documentary “Super High Me” will return for his biggest show yet at the Boulder Theater on Sept. 20, as well as a set at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs on Sept. 21. Tickets for the appropriately-titled “Baked on Stage” tour are available now ($20-$25, or ). Also on radar: always-hilarious (and, thanks to his podcast, newly popular) Marc Maron, June 16-19 at Comedy Works. ($16-$24, )
The Rosebuds have an excellent gig opening several dates for indie-folk luminary Bon Iver this summer, but they’ll also headline some shows of their own, including a July 16 set at the Hi-Dive to promote their typically excellent (if morose) new Merge album “Loud Planes Fly Low.” Tickets are on sale. ($12-$14, )John Wenzel: 303-954-1642 or jwenzel@denverpost.com
