The biggest names in rock and metal came together in Los Angeles Thursday night to celebrate the genre and honor their peers at the Golden Gods Awards 2013.

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.

Hit the bank, clean your turntable needles and get ready: Record Store Day draws nigh.

Friday night in Boettcher Concert Hall, heavy metal hero C. F. Kip Winger and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra demonstrated that opposites can mix.

Alice Cooper may hold one of the longest running tenures on the hard-rock-glam-metal scene, but he’s no slouch after all the success — quite the opposite actually. The veteran rocker and ever-consummate showman packed the house at Denver’s Paramount Theatre on Friday evening and demonstrated just why he’s been able to cross the 40-year mark of a successful musical career.

Put on your masks! This week we’ve got anthemic rock from Monroe Monroe and a track from Sid Pink’s rockeretta “The Yellow Machine.”

Iron Maiden will bring its “Maiden England” tour to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre in August

Photos and review of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado

Best girl groups of all time featuring the Runaways, Sleater-Kinney, Vivian Girls and more

Live review: Little Fyodor, Get Your Going, Ralph Gean at Lion’s Lair