Although Anti just released “Back in the Crowd,” the second single from Tom Waits’ forthcoming disc, Bad as Me, there’s still close to another month before the album hits the stores. So if you’re looking to your Waits fix in the meantime, Gold Hill Inn in Boulder is hosting a…
Last June, we wrote about Dred Scott, who was homeless and performing R&B covers on 16th Street Mall, and Tyler Ward helped spread the word about Scott through his featured artist series on YouTube as well as helping getting Scott an EP on iTunes. Scott’s cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from Dierks Bentley, Mickey Hart Band and Dirty Nasty were announced. On local radio specialty shows, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, The Congress and The Epiloguesall got some spins. Meanwhile, at our local record stores,…
Guns N’ Roses, who announced last week that it would be coming to Denver (but no venue or date has been confirmed yet), is among the fifteen acts nominated, along with the Cure, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Freddie King, Donovan, Erik B & Rakim and Red Hot Chili Peppers, for…
Since the Oriental Theater had to close this week for repairs after a chunk of its ceiling fell on the stage last Friday, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, whose latest ensemble melds jazz, electronic and Indian music, will be playing at Quixote’s True Blue instead on Friday, September 30. The show still…
Each time Cut Copy has come through town over the last few years, the Australian indie electronic group has played a bigger venue as its popularity grew, moving up from the Larimer Lounge in 2008 to the Bluebird in 2009 to the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, October 4. After the…
Known as Biscuitland until a year ago, these musicians (minus guitarist Aaron Reneaux) took a garage-pop/dance-rock direction when they adopted the name One Sun One Moon. Featuring material written over the past three years, the band’s debut, Collisions, draws from ’80s synth-pop and new wave as well as ’90s rock…
Since Deadbubbles has established itself as one of the area’s finest garage-rock acts, it’s not surprising that frontman Arlo White was able to round up fourteen local bands to play Deadbubbles material on this release. While tribute albums are usually devoted to more established bands — Deadbubbles formed in 2006…
After years of working in the corporate world, Phil Villotti and Ray Rodriguez took over the former Atrium Bar & Grill at 554 South Broadway, cleaned up the place and are opening it on Thursday, September 29, as The Bar. But it’s a very different bar from the Atrium. “It’s…
Last June, Colorado Public Radio announced plans to convert 1340 AM, an all-news station, to a new music station, and now CPR plans to roll out a new station, Open Air, on Monday, October 31. “Open Air is a natural extension of CPR’s mission to offer an in-depth exploration of…
Rapper Game hits the the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 2 and the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 3 as part of R.E.D. Tour in support of his fourth album,The R.E.D. Album, which came out in August on Interscope/DGC after almost two years of delays. Game was a recent cover-story…
Boba Fett & the Americans, the fifteen-piece guerrilla-style marching band, will be heading to New York City to play all over Manhattan for three days during the CMJ Music Marathon, which runs from Tuesday October 18 to Saturday, October 22. The band, which includes DeVotchKa’s drummer/trumpeter Shawn King, recently reached…
For over the three decades, Summit Jazz Foundation, a Denver-based non-profit organization, has been putting on shows with an emphasis on traditional, classic, New Orleans, swing and mainstream styles of jazz. From Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 2, Summit Jazz is bringing acts like the Jim Cullum Jazz Band,…
After a long run throughout the mid-’80s and ’90s, Jux County called it quits in 2001, but over the last decade the band has gone on to do a few reunion shows, including last year’s Farmfest, which benefits Urban Farm, an urban garden that promotes sustainable communities. Jux County is…
In 2006, Diego Ramos started shooting a web-based documentary on the Colorado music scene, but he says it was a little ahead of its time. So last summer, Ramos, who’s worked as director of photography on the Discovery Channel’s Disappeared, started filming other local acts for another project titled Music…
DeVotchKa’s music has been used in films like Little Miss Sunshine, and frontman Nick Urata has also been involved in scoring a number of films, including 2009’s I Love You Phillip Morris. The band’s cinematic and sprawling music lends itself quite well to visuals so it’s not surprising Volkswagen used…
The folks at Moe’s Original BBQ just announced that San Diego-based surf rock act Wavves, who’s on the road in support of its latest effort, Life Sux, will be at the venue on Thursday, October 6…
Although Soul Asylum was originally slated perform at the finish line of the Sports Authority Rock ‘n Roll Denver Marathon on Sunday, October 9, the band won’t be able to make it due to scheduling conflicts. Smash Mouth is stepping in to fill the headlining slot for the marathon, which…
Next month, Guns N’ Roses will kick off its first U.S. tour in five years, but there are still more than a dozen cities on the band’s tour itinerary, which the band released yesterday, that have yet to have dates or venues set, including Denver. While the tour, which starts…
Chicago-based hardcore act Rise Against, who is touring in support of its latest effort, Endgame, Celtic punkers Flogging Molly and and local pop-punk band Calibrate Me will be at the 1STBANK Center on Tuesday, December 6 as part of Channel 93.3’s Not So Silent Night. General admission tickets ($36.25) go…
After three decades together, the guys in R.E.M. announced today in a statement on the band’s website that they’re throwing in the towel…
Caribou Ranch, near Nederland, was a major recording studio throughout the ’70s and early ’80s. The 178 artists who recorded there over the years include such legends as Elton John, Billy Joel, the Beach Boys, Frank Zappa and Joe Walsh. But when a fire destroyed the control room in 1985,…
