If you weren’t willing to eat your vacation days to make the trek down to Hangout Festival 2013 in Alabama, we’ve got you covered.

Use our heavily curated lists (, pop, rock, folk/jam, hip-hop, electronic, local, country and more) to help you navigate this summer’s already-crowded live-music landscape.

Billed as a Lifted and Legal 420 celebration, the Motet brought a loving end to a day brazenly celebrated by so many in Denver.

The 2013 Voodoo lineup was announced on Monday, a day after Coachella’s first weekend wrapped up in the desert.

From the moment you step into the festival grounds at Winter Park, SnowBall Music Festival is an immediately memorable and novel experience.

In lieu of the grass and dirt that the seasoned festival goer would expect is a vast plot of slush (if you’re lucky) and ice, an added obstacle for the already impaired masses that would claim more than a few asses over the weekend. Then there’s the sea of beanies, bobbing along to a night of music ostensibly on the theme of “body moving,” or maybe “body heating,” although the temperature didn’t dip too far below freezing on Friday night.

Here are the best Denver shows this week (March 8-14), including Churchill, SnowBall and Alabama Shakes.

Check out Reverb’s five bands to watch for at SnowBall Music Festival 2013.

At some point, indie hip-hop sensations Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will stop coming to Colorado on a monthly basis to push their hotter-than-hot single “Thrift Shop.” That point, however, has not arrived yet.

Savoy posted its new EP, “Personal Legend,” onto Facebook earlier this week for free download. The record is also available on the Colorado-born electronic act’s website.

Today, SnowBall made its final announcements of artists on the lineup for the third annual music festival.