After extensive renovations, Grizzly Rock opened a year ago in the building at 5255 West 6th Avenue that has housed a number of different venue over the years, including Hollywood Legends, Club Arriba and After the Gold Rush. But the 1,200-capacity Grizzly Rock’s stay was a short-lived one as it…

For the past five years, the folks at Swallow Hill have hosting the annual Denver Ukefest, which includes jams, master classes, workshops and pretty much all things ukulele. This year’s fest, which runs from Thursday, October 10, through Saturday, October 12, features uke-centric acts like James Hill, hailed as one…

While there are rumors that El Chapultepec was operating as a speakeasy during Prohibition, it legally opened at the end of Prohibition, in 1933. Over the past eight decades, the infamous jazz and blues club has hosted a number of jazz greats, like Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker and Eddie Harris,…

Tony’s P’s, which opened last November in the former J.R.’s space at 777 East 17th Avenue, recently started hosting live music on weekends in its lounge upstairs. The venue will be the new home base for old-school funk/jazz act Buckner Funken Jazz, fronted by trumpeter Rod Buckner. The group will…

Although trumpeter Terence Blanchard and saxophonist Donald Harrison, both New Orleans natives, were part of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers when the two released 1983’s New York Second Line, it didn’t take too long for them to form their own group and release five albums as co-leaders. In the early ’90s, Blanchard…

Early in her career, during four years of solid touring, Coles Whalen sold thousands of CDs out of her truck — and since issuing her self-titled debut EP in 2005, she’s released five recordings and toured almost constantly. After wrapping a tour last December, Whalen was completely (and understandably) worn…

Connie Hong shares vocal duties in the five-piece band Reviving Cecilia, but with Ivory Circle, her solo project, she wanted to strip things down. And that’s just what she’s done here, with the help of producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Beeble. On “Pretend,” the opening cut of Ivory Circle’s five-song debut…

We all love music, and we all love all kinds of music,” notes James and the Devil frontman Jim Campbell. “I guess that rather than fast-tracking ourselves into a genre, we just decided to make songs for what they were. If we heard a metal song that we liked, it…

Since the 2011 release of (feather), its debut EP, Chimney Choir has put out another EP, (turtle), and a full-length, (ladder), which came out last year. Not only is the band prolific, but it just keeps getting better, as evidenced by the sizable catalogue of really good material it’s amassed…

Update, 12 p.m. 7/10/13: The final celebrations slated for this weekend have been canceled because the buyers of the business received their liquor license earlier than anticipated and will take possession of the business tomorrow, July 11. Rick’s Tavern is now officially closed. After more than two decades of being…

Pop icon Barry Manilow is donating a new Yamaha piano to launch an instrument drive for Jefferson County Public Schools, which is partnering with The Manilow Music Project, which provides musical instruments to high schools and middle schools as well as music scholarships at universities throughout North America. Anyone who…

After eight years at 1512 Larimer Street, Tryst is set to reopen next week a block west at 1320 15th Street in the former Mix Music Lounge location between the Drink and Chances. In honor of the occasion, Tryst is hosting a pre-party on Friday, July 19, from 8 to…

Whatever size room he’s playing, there’s something about Gregory Alan Isakov’s voice — which feels like not much more than a whisper at times — and his engaging songs that demand attention. He creates an unmistakable intimacy with both. Recorded over the past year and a half on analog gear…

On the Whiskey Bottles’ 2010 debut, Ain’t No Crime, the act showed that it had enough grit, twang and heartfelt roots to appeal to fans of both Southern-flavored alt-country and Midwestern Americana. There’s a whole lot more of that on Grandville, the band’s twelve-song followup. The group makes a strong…

GLENN TAYLOR ORCHESTRA @ DAZZLE | TUE., 7/23/13 Rarely is the pedal steel used outside of country music, but Glenn Taylor is one of the few who takes the instrument to completely different places, especially when he’s playing with folks like Ron Miles or Matt Skellenger. While Taylor explores jazz,…

Jim Norris wanted to have something that could spread the word about 3 Kings Tavern, which he co-owns, that bands could give away when they go on tour. So he and MF Ruckus frontman Aaron Howell sat down, brainstormed and chose thirteen local acts like Il Cattivo, Pitch Invasion and…

After debuting Lipgloss as an indie-rock, ’80s-underground dance night in 2001, co-founders Michael Trundle (aka boyhollow) and Tyler Jacobson slowly built their once-monthly dance night into an award-winning weekly Denver institution, one of the first to embrace the dance-punk craze of the mid-2000s. To celebrate the night’s twelfth anniversary, Trundle…

The main guitar riff on “Get It On,” the opening cut on Hot Apostles’ self-titled eleven-song debut, sounds like a loose take on Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.” While frontwoman Eryn Swissdorf has more of a clean delivery than Jett’s smoky rasp, the two women share a similar…

Ten years ago, Mark Sundermeier started the Acoustic Circus series with some friends while he was at the Soiled Dove, and they put out a two-disc compilation that featured a variety of local acts in various genres, all playing songs in an unplugged format. Now the talent buyer at the…