Britt Chester

Skerrit Bwoy just heard tickets to Global Dance Festival would be on sale soon.

Get your track pads and refresh buttons ready, electro-heads! Exclusive three-day passes for the 2012 Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks Amphitheater are about to go on sale. This Wednesday, February 15 at noon, Triad Dragons are releasing exclusive, three-day passes to the largest electronic music festival in the Rocky Mountains. "We were going to only sell 10,000 three-day passes originally," says Ha Hau, CEO of Global Dance Music, "But some people may only want to see this artist, or that artist, so we opened it up."

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A screen shot from the new video.

​Sole and the Skyrider Band have always played by their own rules, but with their new video for "Bad Captain Swag," the Denver quintet illustrates how iconoclastic tendencies can change the idea of music video to sci-fi flick with impressive results.

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​Here's what's hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring the Shins, James Taylor and Explosions in the Sky were announced; In the Whale, Tennis and FaceMan got spins on local radio; and recent albums from Leonard Cohen, Matador, Young Jeezy and Lana Del Rey were the top sellers at our local record stores. Page down for a complete rundown.

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Eric Gruneisen

Grizzly Rose

​Last week, nominations for the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards were announced, and Denver got a few nods. The 40,000 square-foot Grizzly Rose, which has been the city's premier country bar for over two decades, received another nomination as Nightclub of the Year, while KYGO earned a nod as Radio Station of the Year - Major Market and the station's morning show team, Kelly Ford & Rider, were nominated for On-Air Personality of the Year - Major Market. The awards show airs on Sunday, April 1 on CBS.

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​Gamers and Geeks, rejoice! Here's another reason to leave the house besides MileHiCon and the occasional run to stock up on Mountain Dew and pizza bagels: The local premier of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a four-part symphony celebrating the storied franchise's theme music over the years, which will be performed by living, breathing musicians rather than a synthesizer at Boettcher Hall on Saturday, April 7.

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​Rejoice, metal heads! On Friday, May 11, Meshuggah is slated to hit the Ogden Theatre for a show in support of its forthcoming album, the eagerly anticipated followup to 2008's Obzen, due out on Nuclear Blast on March 27. The Swedish metal masterminds will be joined at the Ogden by Baroness and Decapitated. Tickets ($25.75-$30 plus fees) for the show go on sale this Saturday, February 4. Horns!

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​Here's what's hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, a ton of shows go on sale this weekend, including the Fray at Red Rocks, Opeth and Mastodon at the Fillmore, Miranda Lambert at 1STBANK and more; Le Divorce, Shel and Dave Preston got spins on local radio; and recent albums by the Black Keys, Lamb of God, Bob Dylan and 1280 were the top sellers at our local record stores. Page down for a complete rundown.

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Aaron Thackeray

​This should be pretty killer: In support of their latest albums, Heritage and The Hunter, Opeth and Mastodon -- two acts that recently headlined the Ogden Theatre and are certainly no strangers to the Mile High City -- are preparing to hit the road together on the aptly named Heritage Hunter tour, which is slated to make a stop in Denver at the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, April 23. Tickets to the show, which will also feature Ghost, just in town this past weekend, go on sale this Friday, February 3, at 10 a.m.

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​Holy smokes! With the ridiculous number of enticing shows coming to town this spring, you might want to stock up on some five-hour energy and consider getting a second job. Here's yet another show to be completely stoked about: The Civil Wars at the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, May 23. Barton Hollow was among our favorite records last year. When Joy Williams and John Paul White sing, it's beauty personified. We missed the duo last summer at the Fox Theatre and at the Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, so you can bet that we're incredibly excited to catch the act this time around. No word yet on who else is on the bill, but we'll keep you posted. In the meantime, tickets for the show ($26.50 plus fees) go on sale via Axs.com this Saturday, February 4.

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Aaron Thackeray

Tech N9ne at Summit Music Hall last summer.

​Tech N9Ne is coming back to Denver. Again. If it seems like he was just here, it's because he was. This past November. At the Fillmore Auditorium. And before that he was there in July. And December before that in Boulder. Tech N9Ne is here so often, in fact, you'd be excused for thinking he lives here. He's doesn't of course. His mail is delivered to Kansas. But that's just where he hails from, really. He lives on the road. And that's precisely how he's risen up through the ranks to command the same level of attention as his much higher profile counterparts. You can be sure that any acclaim he has garnered, he's earned the old fashion way. Tickets for Tech's Friday, May 18 date at the Fillmore, which also features Krizz Kaliko, Machine Gun Kelly, Mayday, Prozak and Stevie Stone, go on sale this Saturday, February 4, at 10 a.m.

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