Sound Advice Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City…

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Big Gigs Rehab, Black Sheep, May 24 • MeadowGrass Music Festival, feat. Blitzen Trapper, Dawes, Todd Snider, La Foret Conference & Retreat Center, May 24-26 • Logic, Black Sheep, May 25 • Trapt, Black Sheep, May 26 • Escape the Fate, Black Sheep, May 27 • Ivan & Alyosha, Black Sheep, May 28 • Dropkick Murphys, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, May 29 • Beware of Darkness, Black Sheep, May 30 • Scale the Summit, Black Sheep, May 31 • Buddy Whittington with the Atomic Fireballs, Crystola Roadhouse, Woodland Park, May 31 • Bassnectar, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, May 31-June 1 • Atlas Genius, Black Sheep, June 1 • Fleetwood Mac, Pepsi Center, Denver, June 1 • Gina Sicilia, Venue 515, Manitou Springs, June 1 • Taylor Swift, Pepsi Center, Denver, June 2 • The Mowgli's, Black Sheep, June 3 • The xx, Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, June 3 • Sting, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 5 • Darius Rucker, with Rodney Atkins, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 6 • Umphrey's McGee, Dr. Dog, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 7 • Celtic Woman, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 9 • Logic, with Skizzy Mars, Summit Music Hall, Denver, June 11 • Pitbull/Ke$ha, Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, June 11 • Trace Bundy, The Loft, June 14 • DeVotchKa, with the Colorado Symphony, Amanda Palmer, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, June 14 • Fitz & The Tantrums, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, June 14 • Datsik, Ogden Theatre, Denver, June 14-15 • Tim McGraw, Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Englewood, June 15 • Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, June 17 • Tony Bennett with Antonia Bennett, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, June 18-19 •…

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The folk-punk-hippie troubadour gets by with a little help from his drugs by Chris Parker In some ways, closing night MeadowGrass festival headliner Todd Snider is the living embodiment of Richard Linklater's film, Slacker. While a football player at his Beaverton, Ore., high school, Snider literally turned on, tuned in, and dropped out after sampling some psychedelic mushrooms.…

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Playing Around Venue directory 2 South Wine Bar, 2 S. 25th St., 351-2806…

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The MeadowGrass fest artist on the future of Hadestown and the virtues of the past by Loring Wirbel In less than 10 years, Anais Mitchell has launched a traditional folk-music career, diverted to an operatic retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, and released a heartfelt album-long ode to her father. This weekend, she appears at MeadowGrass with former Colorado resident Jefferson Hamer, promoting Child Ballads, a new album devoted to the work of a 19th-century curator of traditional folk tunes.…

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Reverb by Bill Forman Does Joe Pug look like the kind of guy who would steal songs? Of course he does.…

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Swedish heavyweights say goodbye to genre conventions by L. Kent Wolgamott It's been well over a year and a half since Opeth released its last album, Heritage, during which Sweden's best-loved progressive death-metal band has been touring more or less non-stop throughout North America, Europe, South America, Japan, Turkey and India. Now the group is finally ready to go back in the studio — but not before one more U.S. tour.…

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Playing Around Venue directory Adam's Mountain Café, 934 Manitou Ave., #102, Manitou Springs, 685-1430…

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The 'best band in Los Angeles' scores with its 'Safe and Sound' single by Bill Forman If any new band is positioned to pull ahead of the pack this summer, it's Capital Cities. The electro-pop outfit's debut album isn't out until next month, but its highly infectious single, "Safe and Sound," recently reached No. 1 in Germany and has gotten constant airplay on L.A.'s influential alt-rock station KROQ.…

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Colorado Springs artists line up for a weekend of CD release shows. by Bill Forman Everything comes in threes, except, you know, when it doesn't.This weekend, for instance, you can catch three different local CD release shows. Or at least you could, if you had the ability to be in more than one place at the same time.…

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