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4) Poolside — Larimer Lounge, Wednesday, $14-$16
What a fitting name for this band. The dance duo makes it feel like life is one never-ending, sunny California party. The music is reflective, shimmering indie-dance. It’s overwhelmingly positive, but it would make for one hell of a dance party. And this week you can do just that when DJs Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise play the Larimer Lounge on Wednesday.
3) High Plains Comedy Festival — South Broadway, Friday-Saturday, $30-$65
If you’re not hip to the rising Denver comedy scene yet, now’s your chance to cram a lifetime of missed opportunities into one weekend. Friday and Saturday brings the first ever , Denver’s first ever stand-up fest that showcases both local and national talent. See local comics Troy Walker and Jordan Doll, nationals like Reggie Watts and Cameron Esposito and tons more. It’s all going down on South Broadway.
2) Lil Wayne — Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Friday, $29.75-$150
Itap hard to say what ’s legacy will be. Around the release of his “Tha Carter III” in 2008, he was at the top of the rap world — pumping out tunes daily and adding verses to nearly every big hip-hop song on the airwaves. But then he released a rock album, and a few disappointing albums later, he’s not quite the respected figure he once was. Though his quality has waned and his status is in flux, at the heart of it all he remains a unique musician, an important figure in hip-hop and a force to be reckoned with when it comes to selling albums. The polarizing rapper plays Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Aug. 23 with fellow big-timer T.I.
1) No Age — Rhinoceropolis, Thursday, $10 donation
L.A. garage-rock band and Denver DIY venue Rhinoceropolis have the perfect long-distance relationship. When the band is coming through Denver, the two will meet up for the perfect night of mayhem, wake up the next morning and go their separate ways until the next time. When No Age returns to Denver on Aug. 28, it will once again visit the RiNo district collective/venue/halfway-home for a hot-mess, BYOB of a night. The band’s latest album on Sub Pop Records, “An Object,” was released this week.
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