Nocturnal is holding its latest party at Eko House this Friday, September 23. The dance-music-oriented event was inspired by founder Alex Whittier’s experiences with after-party culture, beginning when he attended LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy’s DJ shows at Sasquatch Music Festival and in Aspen and Boulder. At that time he…
Grammy-winning artist Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley has partnered up with TruCannabis to open a new dispensary in Denver on September 22. “Damian Marley’s Stony Hill – by Tru Cannabis” is located at 1630 North Federal Boulevard, adjacent to Mile High Stadium, and will replace TruCannabis’s flagship location. The dispensary is…
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who last headlined the Pepsi Center in 2012, return to the venue on Thursday, March 2, with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue opening. Tickets go on sale on Friday, September 23 at 10 a.m. Ariana Grande brings here Dangerous Woman Tour to the Pepsi Center on Monday,…
For a moment, Chance the Rapper slowed down his exuberant set to perform a duet with an old friend. The 23-year-old hip-hop artist adjusted his red baseball cap and walked slowly to a piano, where he began to sing “Same Drugs” in a quiet, scruffy voice. Sitting beside him, filling…
The Colorado Symphony announced it will perform yet again with singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov, at 7:30 p.m. on January 13, 2017. This will be the symphony and Isakov’s third collaborative performance and comes on the heels of the successful 2016 release of the album Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony…
Wheelchair Sports Camp is finally releasing its debut full-length album No Big Deal. The the album is the band’s first may come as a surprise, since WSC has long been one of the most highly regarded acts in Denver. Until now, the group’s releases have been self-recorded EPs. Wheelchair’s founder and…
When Gregg Allman launched his inaugural Laid Back Festival (named after his 1973 solo debut) last year at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in New York, he hand-picked acts like the Doobie Brothers, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band and other acts. Allman says his goal for the…
Rising country band the Cadillac Three is best known for bringing an element of redneck Southern rock to mainstream country. Authentically unapologetic, the trio isn’t into acts: What you see is what you get, and the ripped jeans, long hair, and thick drawls are real. The Cadillac Three, comprised of…
Editor’s Note: The Denver Bootleg is a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. Visit Krumpholz’s website to see more of his work…
Jux County is releasing its first album since 2001’s Junk Country. The new collection of songs, titled Coral, represents the group’s latest phase since it reconvened in 2014, after years of on-and-mostly-off-again live shows as its members focused on projects and life outside the band. Primary songwriter, guitarist and singer…
Donovan Leitch, who’s gone by his first name only for more than five decades, wrote and recorded hit songs like “Mellow Yellow” and “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” yet his influence as a songwriter and musician reaches beyond his own music. He inspired David Bowie, Marc Bolan and a number of other…
Orbit Service performs tonight, Tuesday, September 20, at the Marquis Theater as the opening act for the current Legendary Pink Dots tour. Many may know Randall Frazier, the songwriter for Orbit Service, for his long tenure as booking manager and sound engineer at the Walnut Room or for his current…
It’s official: Denver-based hip-hop artist Trev Rich has been signed to Ca$h Money Records. The Source has confirmed that Birdman signed the Colorado rising star a few weeks ago, a solid next step for Rich after the success of his 2016 album Rain in the Summer. Being a part of…
The eighth edition of the Titwrench music festival was like many festivals that happened in Denver this past year — seemingly more low-key than usual even if well-attended. That is not to say there was a lack of enthusiasm — there was plenty of that — even for acts that…
Donny McCaslin felt a little shy when he first met David Bowie during a rehearsal of the latter’s “Sue (or in a Season of Crime),” which would be released as a limited-edition single and on Bowie’s 2014 compilation album, Nothing Has Changed. The New York-based jazz saxophonist leads his own…
The Counting Crows and Rob Thomas co-headline Red Rocks tonight while Chance the Rapper, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pat Metheny and Donny McCaslin, the saxophonist who played on David Bowie’s Blackstar, will be in town on Tuesday. This week’s lineup also includes Florida Georgia Line, Tegan & Sara, the Legendary…
The music industry and how music is disseminated these days is quite different than when Echo & the Bunnymen released significant albums like Porcupine and Ocean Rain in the 1980s. Guitarist Will Sergeant says that everything’s changed; the whole ballpark has changed. That’s why the band, which released its twelfth…
On Thursday, the local news outlet Denverite noticed that the building that houses the record store Twist & Shout has been listed for sale for $4 million dollars. The listing, represented by Pinnacle Real Estate Advisors, includes the 13,303-square-foot building occupied by Twist & Shout, Chipotle and New World Cheese…
At some point in the Garbage show Shirley Manson remembered that Garbage had played in the same building on the Version 2.0 tour and that it had a different name. Someone brought up Mammoth Gardens, the venue’s even older name, and Manson tried to recall where the stage was set…
Grande Orquesta Navarre came together in the summer of 2015 when Evan Orman, Sara Parkinson, Susan Cahill and Tom Hagerman decided to ditch the genre confines of their former tango outfit Exstasis for a more open-format band. Drawing on their mutual interest and backgrounds in classical music, jazz, rock, pop…
Skylab descends on the National Western Complex on Saturday with a stellar lineup that includes Deorro, KSHMR, Markus Schulz, DJ Dan vs Donald Glaude, Bro Safari and more, while the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival kicks off today and features Joe Walsh, Gary Clark Jr., Jason Isbell, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band…
Mama, we’re not in Muskogee anymore. Country legend Merle Haggard is throwing his hat into the marijuana market from beyond the grave. Haggard died on April 6, 2016, on what would have been his 79th birthday. Before his death, however, he had joined forces with the Colorado Weed Co. in 2015…
