The Monkees
Stir Cove at Harrah’s Casino, 1 Harrah’s Boulevard
8 p.m., $35 in advance/$40 day-of-show, 21 and up, stircove.com
The Monkees took 60’s bubblegum pop to the next level in the mid-to-late 60s
with their television show and a glut of hummable Beatles-lite hits. While they
never strayed from their hook-laden pop music beginnings, the wonder is that
those songs hold up 45 years later. It’s doubtful that the teen-pop of Miley
Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers will age the same way. The trio of Davy Jones,
Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork are commemorating all the hits, reuniting to play
shows for the first time in nearly a decade. ?
– Chris Aponick