For decades, Iron Maiden has been a crew of pioneers in heavy metal, so it should come as no surprise that the band continues to literally pilot its own plane. The English rockers perform at the Pepsi Center tonight on its current The Book of Souls World Tour, and landed…
This might come as a shock to many of the citizens in Denver but 4/20 ISN’T ABOUT YOU. The infamous date has gotten a lot of flack lately, mostly in the argument that it has become overrun with commercialization. Everyone is trying to capitalize off of the plant in every…
In 1967, when producer Tony Visconti first met a young David Bowie, in the office of David Platz, head of London-based publishing company Essex Music, the first thing Visconti did was stare into Bowie’s eyes, which appeared to be two different colors. “I didn’t know which one to look at,”…
Okay, so you blew your tax refund on a ticket to Coachella. How do you make these the best three days of your life while on a budget? It’s not easy. Last year, writer Marc Ballon asked a bunch of people how the hell they afforded Coachella. Most estimated they…
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…
On the rooftop of an apartment building, I find the congregation of Deer Tick super fans. Or at least, “Deer Tick super fans” is what they call themselves. My three friends — Rachel, Mikal, and Aryn — have been talking about the concert we’re seeing tonight, headlined by Deer Tick,…
With a stage set like a mythical rendition of childhood in the ’50s and ’60s, which included a giant TV center stage and radio studio lights on either side, Elvis Costello spent a full two hours presenting an autobiographical, retrospective performance piece with music rather than anything like a conventional…
The good people at the Humane Society of the South Platte Valley and the Longmont Humane Society host a whole bunch of animals that are available for adoption. Some of them bear a slight, and we stress “slight,” resemblance to some of our favorite people with animal tendencies: rock stars…
About halfway through A$AP Rocky’s set, which was 7 percent music and 93 percent high-as-hell ramblings delivered from his permanent seat atop a suitcase, I realized I had made a huge mistake. It was April 20, 2014, more commonly known as “4/20, bro!!” here in Denver, and I was standing…
“I want everything to be a little more laid-back,” says Neil Michael Hagerty, singer/guitarist with the Howling Hex. It’s a sunny April day in Colorado, and, tall and lean, he’s sporting a pastel tank top; his long brown hair is touched with gray at the sideburns. His drummer, Eric Van…
When you have a phone interview with a band on tour, there are about fifty different ways that the conversation can derail. Typically, your interview subject is tired or hung over and has about twenty minutes of quiet in a packed day that has now been sacrificed to talk to…
Dead & Company are returning to Colorado this summer with a special performance at Folsom Field in Boulder, but any time is ripe for fans of the Grateful Dead to eat up the band’s music and history. To answer that call is Buzz Poole’s examination of the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead. …
While 4:20 p.m. has long been an ideal time to smoke a blunt, April 20 in Colorado has become an unabashed holiday for tokers as well as a hot spot for pot-centric musical acts who conveniently choose to play the state around this time of year. Sure, there are a…
Elvis Costello brings his solo to the Paramount Theatre tonight while Generation Axe (featuring guitarists Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi) is at the same venue on Wednesday. Also this week there’s Iron Maiden at the Pepsi Center, Ellie Goulding at 1STBANK Center, two nights…
Many Denverites take off for the mountains as soon as the workweek ends, hitting the slopes non-stop until trudging back home on Sunday afternoons. Yet sometimes even the most dedicated snow junkie wants a change of pace — an activity other than hurtling downhill — and Colorado’s mountain towns offer…
Cindy Cervantes, aka Bgirl Emerge, remembers what it used to feel like to participate in breakdancing battles as a woman. Throughout the 2000s, Cervantes would show up to events around Denver where “it was like one B-girl to sixty B-boys,” she says. “So there’s a lot of expectation on you…
Father John Misty headlines the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday and Sunday while Peter Murphy brings Stripped acoustic tour to the Gothic Theatre on Sunday and Anders Osborne is at the Boulder Theater tonight. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul…
When Banned In DC was first published in 1988, it was one of the very few tomes to thoroughly document the world of hardcore punk. It was certainly the first to provide a true snapshot of a time in America’s capital when youth culture and a vibrant underground music had…
For the last decade, the Seattle-based innovative pianist and composer Wayne Horvitz had been looking for an excuse to combine two of his groups: the Gravitas Quartet, a chamber ensemble, and Sweeter Than the Day, which has the same lineup as his previous project Zony Mash but in an acoustic…
Over the course of her career, Mile High City entertainer Lannie Garrett has worn many (flamboyant) hats. In this week’s Westword, we profile the beloved Denver chanteuse before her induction to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame on April 16. Here is a photo gallery of Garrett’s looks and costumes across…
The origins of the tale of Sweeney Todd can be traced back all the way to the 1840s. It was then that the character first made an appearance in the serial short story The String of Pearls. After going through several different amalgamations, the murderous barber finally reached wide acclaim in…
It was an incredible all-ages scene: Teens, middle-schoolers, even babies being held by excited parents were lined up outside Seattle venue Chop Suey last week by 4:30 p.m. for the Tacocat album release party. Tacocat decided to put on two shows that day: a 21 and up concert in the…
