Here’s our guide to Colorado 4/20 concerts, which encompasses hip-hop, jam bands, hard rock, electronic dance music and more.

As April kicks off, and along with it a great season of shows, we’ve compiled a spring guide of the Denver hip-hop concerts you should know about.

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Phoenix singer Thomas Mars and his band ably filled in for MSTRKRFT on the Monolith main stage on Sunday. Photo by Lewis Cooper. Denver Post pop music critic Ricardo Baca and A&E reporter John Wenzel brought you our daily Monolith Music Festival coverage this weekend, including write-ups and photo essays from Day 1 and Day 2, but there’s still more. Check out photo essays after the jump from Reverb contributing photographers Joe McCabe and Lewis Cooper.

Monolith Festival, the indie-centric party at Red Rocks on Sept. 12-13, is slowly (and cleverly) announcing its lineup via Twitter and Facebook in order to remain on everyone’s radar for a bit longer. Of course, most non-Pitchfork type sites and publications aren’t going to publish a story on the artist “leaks” every motherlovin’ day, so we’ve waited until now to tell you about the biggest names (with more to come, natch).

[photopress:Wu_Tang2.jpg,full,pp_image] Wu-Tang Clan killed at its Ogden Theatre show last week. Photos by Julio Enriquez. To witness the Wu-Tang Clan live is to truly experience hip-hop. The group’s stage setup at its Dec. 20 Ogden Theatre show was as barebones as possible to catch the essence of the East Coast flava. Once you heard the distinctive sound of the Wu-Tang sword slicing through the air, a rush of relief filled the Ogden — the Wu is here! “36 Chambers” was dropped and suddenly it felt [...]