Music

This week’s best shows include Trivium tonight at the Black Sheep, Los Lobos at the Boulder Theater, Nas at the Belly Up and JEFF the Brotherhood at the Summit Music Hall. See the full list of our picks below.  MONDAY, JANUARY 25 Trivium  $18-$20, 7 p.m. The Black Sheep Mountain…

Nearly seven years ago, I ran down the stairs of a Chicago subway station, laughing with my friend Jordan as we barely made it onto the train before the doors closed. Looking around, we saw the train car filled with a handful of other people who were, like us, riding…

Some of the most worthwhile events in Denver happen when the music community comes together and rallies around a social cause. What cause is more pressing right now than homelessness in Denver? Over the past year individuals experiencing homelessness had their tiny houses torn down in Sustainability Park, had possessions…

Jack’s Mannequin celebrates the tenth anniversary of Everything In Transit tonight while X’s John Doe returns to the Lions Lair for a two-night stand, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is at the Fillmore tonight and T.I. is at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday. See the full list of our picks below.  FRIDAY, JANUARY 22…

While Casselman’s Bar & Venue, which is closing this weekend after a six-year run, brought in a wide variety of local acts, it also booked a number of stellar national acts, including Raekwon, Stryper, Das Racist and Too $hort. Here’s a rundown of ten great moments at the venue.  10…

Weezer and Panic! at the Disco will stop at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 24 as part of their summer co-headlining tour in support of their new albums. Continuing with the emo-pop-punk revival — Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness opens the show. Reserved tickets ($29.75-$75) and general admission lawn…

More music venue closing news: the Armoury on Larimer is shutting down. Named for the Arsenal soccer team’s fan store, the Armoury opened in early 2013 in the Ballpark Neighborhood as an Old World pub that focused on soccer, spirits heavy on beer and browns, and a live-music lineup featuring…

On a cold Friday night in January, on a corner of the Baker neighborhood near the highway and train tracks, sits an unassuming venue for a music festival. Yet the location of the 1010 Workshop — around the corner from the original location of legendary center of local DIY music,…

The singing starts almost immediately, the voice deep and sultry, picking through blues songs in random one- or two-line bursts. It seems a little incongruous that the woman making our sandwiches in a tidy deli called Dubbel Dutch — its storefront painted orange, its shelves neatly lined with packages of…

After a six-year run, Casselman’s Bar & Venue in the RiNo district is closing this Saturday as Bend, Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewery is slated to open a brewpub in the building. Casselman’s remaining shows include Mike Ring tonight, a comedy game show on Thursday, January 21, and Stephen Pearcy, former singer for Ratt,…

Thanks to the recent news about Guns N’ Roses, the word “reunion” seems to be buzzing all over social media right now. In the hair metal world, Florida-turned-Colorado band Tryxx reuniting and making a movie about the whole thing. In Frebruary, a re-formed Ween will perform a highly-anticipated reunion stand in…

Last year, just before John Doe, co-founder of the influential L.A. punk band X, took the stage at the Lion’s Lair, Governor John Hickenlooper walked into the storied hundred-person dive bar with some people, including two guys from his security detail. “I give him a lot of credit for going…

Filmmaker Shannon Kelly was getting his commission to make a film for display at Denver International Airport around the time he first and last saw a band whose music seemed to fit his cinematic vision: Pteranodon. Kelly had been a film student at CU and rubbed shoulders with the likes of…

Ladysmith Black Mambazo returned to Denver last night and performed for a full house at the L2 Church on Colfax, presented by Swallow Hill Music. The South African vocal ensemble has been entertaining audiences around the world for more than five decades, traversing the globe and historical milestones. Over this…

Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom celebrated its fourteenth anniversary on January 15, which featured a performance by Everyone Orchestra to celebrate. Everyone Orchestra is an improvised band that features a list of revolving musicians and includes such luminaries as Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company, Allman Brothers Band), Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident), Michael Travis (String…

“This is the most interesting thing we do all year,” Murder By Death frontman Adam Turla said a few songs into the Indiana-bred band’s 28-song, two-hour set at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park on Saturday night. And that’s saying a lot, as the indie-Americana quintet with a twisted gothic…

Formed in Los Angeles in 1994, electro-metal band Orgy earned themselves some serious international fame when they put out the Candyass album in ’98, and the subsequent single, a cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday.” Following a third album in 2004, Punk Statik Paranoia, the band went away for six years. Frontman Jay Gordon kept busy…

Todd Rundgren headlines the Oriental Theater tonight while Tony Lucca is at the Walnut Room tomorrow and Orgy and Cut Chemist are town on Wednesday. See our picks for the next four days below.  MONDAY, JANUARY 18 Todd Rundgren  $40, 8:30 p.m. Oriental Theater Monday Night Menagerie $15, 7 p.m. Cervantes’…

When Todd Rundgren toured last year in support of his latest electronica-driven effort, Global, he only brought DJ Dam Funk (who manned a laptop and a keyboard) and two female singer/dancers on the road with him. The shows, including one at the Bluebird Theater in August, were largely made up…