Going strong for nearly four decades, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival just announced that Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, John Prine, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Leftover Salmon, Bela Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio, Punch Brothers, Peter Rowan and the Del McCoury Band are among the preliminary…
After selling out stadiums and arenas in South America and Europe over the past few months, Lenny Kravitz will kick off his first American tour in five years in January. That tour includes a stop at the Buell Theatre on Friday, February 10. Kravitz, who has been making appearances on…
An extensive user of Auto-Tune, T-Pain helped bring the pitch correction software to the masses with his iPhone app, I Am T-Pain. He doesn’t skimp on the Auto-Tone on his latest effort, Revolver, which was released on RCA earlier this month. In support of the disc, T-Pain stops at the…
As a follow-up to last year’s Joy EP, Oh, Starling, the husband-and-wife duo of singer-songwriters Jessica Sonner and Dan Craig, released another five-song holiday EP, Noel. The duo takes holiday standards like “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “O Come O Come Emmanuel” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” and puts…
Michael Olsen, who also owns Wicked Garden (1403 Larimer Street), opened Cherry (231 Milwaukee Street) to the public last weekend in the former space that was once home to Bar Luxe, the Milwaukee Grill and the Bay Wolf. The new dance club, which offers bottle service and has a private…
Even though the economy continued to bump along this past year, people are still drinking more than ever — maybe because of the lousy economy. And a number of bars opened in 2011, giving them new places where they could drink. Here’s a rundown of some of the more promising…
While it’s cool seeing in the Flaming Lips in larger venues like Red Rocks that hold around 9,500 people, it’s whole other experience seeing them at an intimate spot like the Belly Up Aspen, which holds around 400. Last year’s show at the Belly Up was pretty damn epic, yet…
Nearly a year ago, Railroad Earth played a late-afternoon acoustic set at the Ogden Theatre for 75 fans, who each made a contribution to BECA (Bilingual Education for Central America). To mark the anniversary of the show, the band is releasing a live recording of the set on Monday, December…
Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco will visit the Boulder Theater on Friday, March 3, in support of ¿Which Side Are You On?, her first studio album in more than three years. The disc, which features Ivan & Cyril Neville, Anaïs Mitchell and Pete Seeger, hits stores on January 17 on her own…
When he branched out on his own after more than two decades of working with Wynton Marsalis — both in his septet and as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — alto sax player Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson had more time to work with his own group as well…
3OH!3 pulled out three unreleased cuts from its vaults, and the electro-pop duo is releasing a song a week this month on iTunes, starting today with “Bang Bang”, which Nathaniel Motte told Rolling Stone was originally commissioned by Ball Aerospace in Boulder as the only song to keep scientists awake…
After a seven-and-a-half-year run, Greg Baumhauer is pulling the plug on the Squire Lounge’s open-mike comedy night. “We’ve crushed enough dreams,” he says. And tonight, you have one last chance to catch Baumhauer and the Wrist Deep crew in action at what was once hailed as the meanest open-mike night…
With 2008’s Punk Junkies, the Demon Funkies dug into some heavy guitar-riff-based grooves, many of which were steeped in thick distortion. This time around, frontman and guitarist Ryan Chrys rolled back the distortion somewhat while still providing tasty riffs on songs like “These Strings.” While the Funkies were a trio…
When he branched out on his own after more than two decades of working with Wynton Marsalis — in his septet and as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — alto sax player Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson had more time to work with his own group as well as…
When Greg Baumhauer, Ben Kronberg and Adam Cayton-Holland, otherwise known as Wrist Deep Productions, started their open-mike comedy night on Tuesdays at the Squire Lounge (1800 East Colfax Avenue) in 2004, Baumhauer thought it would last three months. Instead, it lasted for seven and a half years — far outpacing…
Foreigner’s Acoustique show, originally scheduled for Tuesday, January 17, has been canceled. No word on why the plug was pulled on the show, but refunds are available at point of purchase, and all TicketHorse credit card purchases will be automatically refunded, with no action required by the customer…
When Greg Baumhauer, Ben Kronberg and former Westword scribe Adam Cayton-Holland, otherwise known as Wrist Deep Productions, started their open-mike comedy night on Tuesdays at the Squire Lounge (1800 East Colfax Avenue) in 2004, Baumhauer thought it would last three months. Instead, it lasted for seven and a half years…
Although the Facebook page for Rockaway Tavern (2036 Broadway) says the venue’s last show was at the end of November, owner Kris Sieger insists that the venue isn’t closed (he says his former soundman had administrative control over the Facebook page). Sieger, who opened the bar in July 2010 with…
Out of the Blues, Papa Juke’s followup to 2009’s Jukin’ at Jack’s, draws from the blues in many forms. Early on, the four-piece displays a knack for writing tunes all across the blues spectrum, from blues-tinged funk numbers like “Never Lost Love” to jazzy blues cuts like “Sizzle” and jump…
Although its moniker might imply a sound that’s massive and earthshaking, Seismic Event’s alt-rock is tamer than a defanged tiger. Just the same, even though the band splits the difference between acts like Kings of Leon and the Fray, the seven songs here aren’t necessarily wimpy. Frontman Tyrel Sloan’s vocals…
After a long run as Joe’s Buffet, the building at 753 Santa Fe Drive went through a number of incarnations, including Club Mystery, Club 753 and, most recently, the Sound Kitchen. Now Marcus Giavanni has taken over the three-story, 15,000-square-foot space, which he’s dubbed The Cow — as in “cash…
SOCIAL DISTORTION at the OGDEN THEATRE | 12/2/11Early on in Social Distortion’s Friday night show at the Ogden, the first of a three-night stand, frontman Mike Ness thanked the crowd for coming to the show and said, “I know you had choices tonight. There’s the Christmas light parade downtown. You…
