Cannibal Corpse has managed to make a career out of royally pissing people off.

“We come from a background of faith and hope,” Denver alt-pop act This Broken Beat’s frontman Julio Perez says. “It might be subliminal, but every show has a happy atmosphere.”

It’s no surprise that with a voice like soft suede and a gift for story-telling that hoists listeners up and allows them to float along with her every syllable, country-folk-Americana singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammys and sold over twelve-million albums worldwide.

As Fall Out Boy songs like “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and “Dance, Dance” made waves on the radio back in 2005, the Chicago band became synonymous with cutesy, chirpy pop-punk — too sweet to truly be punk. And yet that reputation is not entirely fair.

The October Open Music Session welcomed Eldren, the psychedelic space-pop band that won “Best Psych Rock Band in Denver” two years in a row at the 2016 and 2015 Westword Music Awards.

Since forming in 2008, Las Vegas alt-rockers in Imagine Dragons have risen steadily, until this year when the band really has exploded. Thanks to its new album Evolve and the accompanying singles “Believer” and “Thunder,” it’s tough to have the radio on for ten minutes, for better or worse, without hearing Imagine Dragons.

Ivory Circle has released its latest video. Here’s the story behind it.

Together Pangea is Denver bound with a stripped down sound.

British folkie-punk artist Billy Bragg might not appreciate a heady comparison to Bob Dylan and all of the unnecessary weight that comes with it, but the two great songwriters certainly share some traits.

Los Mocochetes bring the party to Open Music Sessions.

Since the breakup of Pantera, singer Phil Anselmo has been performed with more bands than your average session player. There’s Down, Eibon, Necrophagia, The Illegals, and Scour, to name but a few. Superjoint, originally called Superjoint Ritual, might just be the best of them.

Kimberly Freeman and Jason Rufuss Sewell’s project One-Eyed Doll is so contemporarily Goth-punk, that they might as well have Emily the Strange singing for them, Gorrilaz-style. But that’s just the surface, and it needs to be scratched.

Golden, Colorado, right at the foot of the Rockies, between Lookout Mountain and the Two Table Mountains, is an unlikely venue for Wolf Fest, Metro Denver’s major annual sleaze/hair metal festival, but life is full of surprises.

For much of the 1990s and certainly the ’00s, it looked very much like Adam Ant’s career had hit the skids. 1990’s Manners & Physique and ’95s Wonderful albums were hardly disasters, but in comparison to the huge success that he had enjoyed prior to that, they were largely ignored.

It seems entirely appropriate that Denver indie-dreampop outfit Tyto Alba is named after the Latin translation of “barn owl.” After all, that bird is elegant, thought to be highly intelligent (or at least bookish), and single-minded in its efficiency.

This weekend the High Elevation Rock Fest descends on Fiddler’s Green, with two days and two stages jam-packed with hard rock and metal bands.

It was sixteen years ago that Andrew W.K. released his I Get Wet debut album and suddenly found that he was popular on a global stage.

Let’s get this out of the way from the start: The “A” in music entertainment giant AEG stands for Anschutz. That’s Phil Anschutz, the Colorado Republican billionaire who has stakes in large concert venues worldwide. Tracksuit Wedding, meanwhile, is a talented, vibrant, enjoyable, bluesy rock-and-roll band also based in Colorado. So what do these two things have to do with each other?

Italy is a beautiful country. Like, stunningly gorgeous. The cities are magnificent and culturally rich. The countryside is perhaps even more impressive. It’s an amazing nation that has given the world amazing literature, poetry and, of course, opera over the years. It hasn’t, however, been known for its metal bands. There are a few bands that had a cult following for a short time, such as Ephel Duath, Linea 77, Death SS, Rhapsody of Fire and Dope Stars Inc. But goth metal stars Lacuna Coil sit at the very head of that table.

Today, on September 1, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, showcasing the rabble-rousing Latin blues-rock ensemble Los Mocochetes. It’s also community radio station KGNU’s anniversary party and comics will be on site to celebrate.