Music is not my religion,” declares Aaron Collins. “It isn’t my fucking life. I have a life. I have a wife that I love more than anything in the whole world…I have friends. I have family…I have a life that I live, and music represents that life. It isn’t everything…
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS With Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels 03.19.11 | Ogden Theatre After being on the road pretty much nonstop since the beginning of February, the Drive-By Truckers rounded out this leg of their tour with a two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre before heading back home to…
Casselman’s Bar & Venue, a live-music venue in the Ballpark neighborhood that’s been open almost two years, is slated to reopen tomorrow, Wednesday, March 16, after getting slapped with a suspension notice for violating the Colorado liquor code. The spot, which has been closed since Saturday, will reopen just in…
Beloved Denver art-rockers the Inactivists have always seemed to stray a bit off the conventional path, but that’s one of the things that makes the band bizarrely endearing. On their fifth release and first double album (the second disc can be downloaded from the band’s website), the Inactivists declare war…
Last year the B.U.F.F. Brothers Group sold four of its bars, including the College Inn, Dirk’s, Gibby’s and Pifler’s, to the Little Pub Company. B.U.F.F. Brothers co-owner Rob Lanphier says the sale basically came down to money: Little Pub made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. The B.U.F.F. Brothers still…
The Matchbox is set to open tonight in the former Orange Cat Studios at 2625 Larimer Street. Squire Lounge owner Sudhir Kudva and partners Justin Anthony and Lisa Vedovelli spent a few months overhauling the spot, putting in new bathrooms and a garage door window in the front and demolishing…
After a seventeen-year run, Austin’s Asylum Street Spankers have embarked on their final run, which they’ve affectionately dubbed the “Spanks for Everything” tour. During its storied history, jazz-folk act has gone through some fifty members and now tours as a seven-piece. In advance of the band’s three-day run in Colorado…
Last year the B.U.F.F. Brothers Group sold four of their bars — the College Inn, Dirk’s, Gibby’s and Pifler’s — to the Little Pub Company. B.U.F.F. Brothers co-owner Rob Lanphier says the sale basically came down to money: The Little Pub Company, which now owns nineteen saloons in the area,…
DeVotchKa’s excellent 100 Lovers, released last week on Anti, debuted at number one at both Albums on the Hill and Twist & Shout and rounded out the top five at Wax Trax. Two Rick Kulwicki-related releases, meanwhile, The Frantix’s My Dad’s a Fuckin’ Alcoholic and the Fluid’s Purplemetalflakemusic, took the…
As reported last week, the Avett Brothers will be at Red Rocks in July, while Warren Haynes and Cake are due at the Ogden in May and June respectively. Also, Arctic Monkeys, who have been working on their fourth album, make their way back to the Ogden again on Monday,…
Before releasing an EP last year, New Ben Franklins frontman Dave DeVoe said his ultimate goal was to sound like the Catherine Wheel playing Johnny Cash songs. He admitted it was impossible to do, but it was a great goal to have. While somehow fusing shoegaze and country is a…
Both tremendously innovative bassists, Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten have pushed the boundaries of bass playing since beginning their careers in their early twenties. Clarke got his start in the ’70s backing up jazz heavies like Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz and Chick Corea’s legendary fusion group Return to…
Leigh Jones already owned Jonesy’s EatBar, the Horseshoe Lounge next door and Bar Car, which opened just last June in the former home of the Recovery Room, so she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (which…
The building at 3014 East Colfax Avenue that once housed the long-in-the-tooth Longhorn Saloon has gone through several changes in the past few years. Back in the summer of 2007, it turned into Sengers on the Fax — much more of an upscale club, perhaps too upscale for the neighborhood,…
Leigh Jones already owned Jonesy’s EatBar, the Horseshoe Lounge next door and Bar Car, which opened just last June in the former home of the Recovery Room, so she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (which…
Leigh Jones, who already owned Jonesey’s EatBar and the Horseshoe Lounge, just opened Bar Car last June. So she thought it might be too soon to open a fourth place. But in December after Steve Gelman closed the Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelman’s before that at 2911 West 38th Avenue)…
Maybe you’ve seen the billboards around town that proclaim, “Tuaca: It’s a Colorado thing.” There are plenty of folks around these parts who really dig the vanilla citrus liqueur. Well, tonight at 3 Kings Tavern, six local tattooed bartenders will face off against each other with their own Tuaca bold…
The next incarnation of Brewski’s Pub & Grill opened at 2100 East 104th Avenue in Northglenn. Chuck Persichetti — who ran the old Brewski’s at Highway 36 and Pecos Street for a decade, as well as several other spots during his 45-year run in the bar business — opened the…
Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on…
Adele’s new album 21, released last week on Columbia, debuted in the number one spots at both Twist & Shout and Independent Records, while coming in third at Albums on the Hill. Stockholm Syndrome, meanwhile, claimed the top spot at Albums on the Hill with its latest, Apollo, released February…
After forming the Denver-based rock group Stinos in 2006, Justin Harned and Brad Jones were looking for a new musical direction, and so they brought in violinist Harmony Greenhalgh and a bassist and drummer and started Left Foot Green in early 2008. On the band’s sophomore release, Fun With Vengeance,…
After a four-year stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers that included being the band’s musical director, alto saxophonist Bobby Watson went on to play on nearly thirty albums as a leader and close to a hundred recordings as a sideman with jazz heavies like Max Roach, George Coleman, and Wynton…
