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Lupe Fiasco leads a list of provocative artists announcing concerts this week in the Mile High City. The Chicago-bred MC could be pegged as the most creatively vital of the bunch, despite the relatively sanitized nature of his third album, this year’s “Lasers.” It’s his least ambitious but most commercially viable release, which explains why he’s headlining the Fillmore Auditorium this time around instead of the Ogden. Tickets for the Oct. 7 concert with Tinie Tempah and Sara Green are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($34.50-$40, )
Insane Clown Posse, never ones to shy from controversy, will return to Denver for a Sept. 29 show at the Ogden Theatre. Expect the cartoonish and perpetually self- piteous hip-hop duo to draw the usual throng of facepaint-smeared fans — and hysterical, mostly unwarranted overreactions from the rest of us. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($32.50, Ticketmaster)
ZZ Top peddles a very different kind of bombast, though one that has been tested and vindicated over the past four decades. The Texas blues-rock icons will hit the Paramount Theatre on Oct. 10, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. today. ($59.50-$99.50, TicketHorse)
Red Rocks Amphitheatre hosts a Global Dance Party and Reggae on the Rocks, so why not Snowboard on the Rocks? The second annual event, Sept. 16, unofficially kicks off the snowsports season with film screenings, live appearances from snowboarding notables and music from RJD2, Doomtree and Pretty Lights Music artist Michal Menert. Tickets are on sale. ($25-$30, Ticketmaster)
Railroad Earth knows where its bread is buttered, making the jam band’s annual New Year’s Eve dates at the Ogden Theatre a tasty proposition indeed. The folk- oriented New Jersey six-piece will play there Dec. 29-31, with single-day tickets running $30 (Dec. 29-30) and $55 (Dec. 31). Three- day passes are $105 and, in an unusual move, admittance is 16 and up with a valid ID. Tickets are on sale. (Ticketmaster)
Social Distortion, one of the more reliable names in West Coast punk rock, will return for a Dec. 4 show at the Ogden Theatre to promote its new Epitaph album, “Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes.” Tickets are on sale. ($30, Ticketmaster)
John Wenzel: 303-954-1642 or jwenzel@denverpost.com
