“At the time, I was living by Silverthorne, so the band all had to drive down for our first gig in the city. On Sixth Avenue, a truck sped up behind us and popped off a couple of gunshots at our van before speeding off. Wow. Welcome to Denver.
Foreigner, which is on its fortieth anniversary tour, and Cheap Trick co-headline Red Rocks tonight, with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience opening, while Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit perform at the venue on Thursday night.
The Colorado Springs-based feminist punk band Cheap Perfume released its video, “It’s Okay (to Punch Nazis),” on Friday, September 1. We told the story of how the band decided to write a song about the fight against fascism and why the musicians shifted from espousing nonviolence to deciding sometimes force is okay – particularly when it comes to stopping Nazis.
Today, on September 1, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, showcasing the rabble-rousing Latin blues-rock ensemble Los Mocochetes. It’s also community radio station KGNU’s anniversary party and comics will be on site to celebrate.
September’s here, and while there are plenty of outdoor concerts to check out, it’s time to start planning trips to some of the indoor venues Denver has to offer. If you prefer a mellow, low-key environment over a three-day Red Rocks run, check out our picks for some of the coziest spots in Denver, where you’re sure to find great music and perhaps meet some new friends.
The forward-thinking Manchester, England-based trio GoGo Penguin is a squarely acoustic act with a piano, an upright bass and a drum kit, but the group’s songs are interpretations of electronic music projects the act first builds on a computer using software like Logic or Ableton.
Over the last six years, Phish has set up shop for three nights as part of its annual Labor Day weekend run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. A Taste of Colorado returns to Civic Center Park this weekend with music by Rick Springfield, 38 Special, Sheila E., KONGOS, Five for Fighting and more.
August proved to be an incredible month for concerts in the Denver area. Legacy groups like Guns n’ Roses and Depeche Mode brought a healthy dose of nostalgia to the city, while local bands gone big like Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and the Lumineers played jam-packed venues. Here are some of our favorite images from this month in music.
The criticism that Foreigner has to face is much the same as that fielded by Journey and Boston: The current lineup touring under the classic band name bears little resemblance to the group of people responsible for recording the hits that created the brand in the first place.
Rapper Hoodie Allen stops at the Gothic Theatre on Friday, October 20, with Luke Christopher opening. Tickets ($30) go on sale on Thursday, August 31, at 12 p.m. DJ and producer Kayzo will be at the Gothic Theatre, on Friday, October 13. General admission tickets ($20-$35) and VIP balcony tickets ($70-$80) are on sale now. Australian hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods headlines the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 30. Tickets ($22.50-$25) are on sale now.
It’s okay to punch Nazis. That’s the message in the newest song from Colorado Springs feminist punk outfit Cheap Perfume, the video for which drops September 1.
Local R&B and neosoul singer Danae Simone looked at the lineup of hip-hop shows in Denver and noticed something missing: women.
The Costa Mesa-based band the Growlers formed about eleven years ago, blending surf rock and psychedelia with a dark edge. When the musicians organized their first festival in 2012, they dubbed it “Beach Goth.”
In 2009, soul singer Povi Chidester was nearly twenty and ready for a change. She loaded her car with her belongings and drove from Denver, a city she loved, to Oakland, a city she knew little about.
Denver has built a rich electronic music scene. Here are some of our favorite places to dance to EDM.
The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz.
Shane Franklin, who raps under the name SF1, has dropped a minimalist music video for his catchy pop hip-hop song “Honest” that nods back to the freewheeling chock-full-of-humor spirit of De La Soul, one part goofy and another part charming as all get out.
While studying guitar making at the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix in the late ‘80s, Matt Flaherty remembers people saying, “Building an electric guitar is like an eighth-grade shop project.” Flaherty, who started Texas Toast Guitars out of his Arvada-based shop in 2011, has been thinking about that quote since first hearing it.
After headlining Red Rocks for the first time last year, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats return to the venue for a two-night stand this week. Also on the calendar, Lionel Richie and Mariah Carey will co-headline the Pepsi Center, Lady Antebellum will play Fiddler’s Green, Playboi Carti will take the stage at the Ogden Theatre and Wovenhand performs at the Marquis Theater.
We named Ziggies Denver’s Blues Bar not just in the Best of Denver 2017, but many other Best of Denver editions. But this week we learned that Ziggies may not be around for the 2018 Best of Denver: The owner of the building at 4923 West 38th Avenue wants to sell it.
Nobody denies it can be dispiriting to sit in a virtual waiting room, hoping to get Red Rocks concert tickets, only to find out every seat sold out within minutes of going on sale. Yet that’s exactly what happens to Denver concert goers each year.
Singer Laetitia Sadier, who co-founded the art-pop band Stereolab in 1990, likes the freaks: Young Marble Giants, Joy Division, the Residents and “those freaky freaks from overseas.” But when she was a teenager growing up in France and first discovered the surrealist French singer Brigitte Fontaine, Sadier thought, “Here’s my mother.”
