In addition to a number of shows announced this week, Live Nation is offering the 2010 Country Megaticket, which includes four shows at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre including, the Country Throwdown featuring Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town and more on Sunday, June 13, Tim McGraw with Lady Antebellum and Love…
Soldier of Love, Sade’s first album in a decade, grabbed the top spots at Independent Records and Twist & Shout, while coming in at second at Albums on the Hill for the week ending February 14. Yeasayer’s Odd Blood, released last week on Secretly Canadian, and Spoon’s Transference, which came…
Kate O’Toole had thought about opening a bar since she was thirteen and saw The Color Purple. “There’s this scene in the juke joint where Shug Avery sang this song called ‘Sister’ to Celie, and she was just getting down and then everyone was getting down,” she remembers. “It was…
Pete Wernick says he’s always walking a fine line: On one hand, he uses five decades of banjo proficiency to play traditional bluegrass with Hot Rize, which did a lot of recording in the ’80s, and, more recently, with Long Road Home, which just released a new album, Live at…
After playing with alt-country outfit Drag the River and the New Haven-based rockers Hot Rod Circuit, Casey James Prestwood went out on his own and released his honky-tonk-flavored solo debut, The Hurtin’ Kind, in 2006. As with his debut, Falling Apart the Seams shows Prestwood’s affinity for ’60s and ’70s…
While our profile on Pete Wernick in this week’s issue primarily focused on the duality of his roles in his bluegrass/jazz group Flexigrass and with the traditional bluegrass act Long Road Home, Wernick also discussed a number of other things including: what good bluegrass is, his introduction and the resurgence…
Ginger Perry says she started her new night, This Good Old Country, which debuted last week at Interstate Kitchen & Bar (901 West 10th Avenue), to remember where she came from. Her Kansas-based grandparents on her mom’s side still do everything that’s country, from auctions to horse racing to cattle…
Although Spoon has dominated the local charts over the past few weeks, there were no clear winners across the board for the week ending February 7. New releases from Album Leaf and Lil Wayne — his ill advised rock album — who begins serving his one year jail sentence today…
As if playing in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters wasn’t enough for Dave Grohl, he teamed up with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones and Queen of the Stone Age’s Joshua Homme to form Them Crooked Vultures in 2009. The Vultures, who released their self-titled debut this past November, descend upon…
Starting on Tuesday, February 16, Jazzmatazz Lounge (1612 East 17 Avenue), which has offered live jazz on the weekends since it opened in November, will begin featuring live music Tuesdays through Saturdays. Piano jazz happy hours will run from 6 to 8 p.m., and bands will play from 8:30 p.m…
Kate O’Toole had thought about opening a bar since she was thirteen and saw The Color Purple. “There’s this scene in the juke joint where Shug Avery sang this song called ‘Sister’ to Celie and she was just getting down and then everyone was getting down,” she remembers. “It was…
Although golf is a big sport in Colorado, there are few opportunities to play in the dead of winter. Enter Swingers, an upscale sports lounge that just opened next to the Robusto Room at 9535 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. The bar has state-of-the-art golf simulators that allow you…
While Chris Daniels has a 25-year history in these parts of horn-based, good-time blues rock/R&B, he gets over to Holland occasionally to team up with the like-minded Dutch R&B/soul act the BMaster. We’ll Meet Again is a collaboration of the two playing live at the Q-Bus in Leiden, Holland. Early…
Although Spoon’s latest effort, Transference, didn’t have quite the pull it did the week it came out, it was still a strong a seller among local record stores for the week ending January 31. Magnetic Fields’ Realism, released last week on Nonesuch had a decent debut, and Vampire Weekend’s Contra…
Quite a few shows announced this week that will be going on sale this weekend: The Black Eyed Peas, who just added another trio of Grammys to the three they already have, bring their E.N.D. World Tour to the Pepsi Center on Saturday, March 27. Ludacris and LMFAO open the…
Cole Rudy likes to start his Jazz Expo nights at the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer Street) with the music of Lenny Breau, who was one of the world’s greatest jazz guitarists but also one of the most underrated. A damn fine guitarist himself, Rudy was talking with Jonathan Bitz, who does…
The Informants don’t really play cover songs. They don’t need to. “People seem to think they need a cover because it makes them feel like, ‘If I can hear a cover, I can have a good time,'” Kerry Pastine points out. “We give them a good time no matter what,…
Country sensation Jason Aldean, who has been selling out arenas on his Wide Open tour, visits the Odeum Colorado Thursday, March 18. Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” single spent four weeks at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart and has been certified gold. Reserved seats run $33.75…
While Vampire Weekend’s Contra captured the top spot at a lot of local record stores the previous week, Spoon’s seventh album, Transference, released last week on the Merge imprint, topped the charts for the week ending January 24. The album grabbed top spots at Albums on the Hill, Independent Records,…
The Informants’ latest album, Crime Scene Queen, won Best Self-Produced CD award in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge over the weekend. The record, which was released in July, was up against albums from all over the world. This is a big deal in the blues world. Crime Scene Queen,…
Star Bar, one of the state’s classic dives at 2137 Larimer Street, has gone dark to due to a liquor violation by the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses. No word on yet on when it will re-open…
After a decade-long run, it appears that one of Denver’s biggest hip-hop clubs has closed its doors. At least that’s what we gather from this sign, which was posted in the window this afternoon when we drove by. Formerly the Blake Street Baseball Club and then the LoDo Music Hall,…
