2015 was one hell of a year for concert fans in the Mile High City. We saw alternative hip-hop make big venues home, bore witness to The Tank, an acoustic miracle in the middle of the Colorado desert, saw more shows at Red Rocks than any season in history, even…
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…
This past weekend, Denver breakout boys Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats played a two-night holiday homecoming stand at the Ogden Theatre. Here’s the narrative I’ve heard every day since I moved to Denver: After years of teeth-sharpening in stalwart bands, releasing solid albums and wearing deep grooves into local…
Tin Horn Prayer had been considering reuniting for a while. The local folk-punk band had taken an indefinite hiatus in 2013. In late 2014, tragedy struck. The former drummer, Camden Trendler passed away. Tin Horn Prayer got back together to pay tribute to their fallen bandmate, and it felt good,…
Bummeroo, the online-only music festival created by David Castillo of Pizza Time and Panaderia, is back for its second year on Youtube, and is appropriately titled, “BUMMEROO 2.” Bummeroo 2, which will hit the interwebs on December 22, was originally conceived as an all-day real-world music festival at Denver’s Rhinoceropolis…
The “Queen and King of Telluride” will keep watching their thrones as Emmylou Harris returns to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the fourteenth year, and Sam Bush headlines the popular festival for the forty-second time. The annual festival announced its initial lineup of artists who will take the stage June…
This weekend’s lineup of shows includes YouTube sensation Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox at the Paramount Theatre, Victor Wooten at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, Patterson at the Soiled Dove and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18…
Arrested Development, which performs on Saturday, December 19, at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, was one of the earliest incarnations of alternative hip-hop, as it would come to be called by critics. That designation is, of course, problematic when part of the reason the group wasn’t immediately embraced by hip-hop culture was…
I once commissioned an illustrator friend to draw an anniversary card for my boyfriend that said “You’re the Ad-Rock to my Kathleen Hanna,” with the living music icons’ likenesses drawn on it. The card never materialized, but the thought has always been there — the thought that to my riot…
Since its 2009 debut album, Recordings Made in Public Spaces, Volume 1, Wrekmeister Harmonies, the musical collective headed by J.R. Robinson, has produced increasingly powerful albums that serve as a kind of manifestation of the horror and beauty of human existence. Robinson borrowed more than his project’s name from Werckmeister…
After more than two decades of living in Athens, Georgia, Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood moved to Portland, Oregon. Since moving last summer, Hood says he’s written more there than he’s written in the last fifteen years – both songs and otherwise. “I think any time you go through a…
AC/DC’s Rock or Bust Tour hits the Pepsi Center on Monday, February 8 and tickets ($95-$140) go on sale on Friday, December 18, at 10 a.m. My Morning Jacket returns to Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29. Tickets ($45-$49.95) go on sale…
Denver-raised rapper Cisco the Nomad might be the busiest twenty-year-old in the state. In between classes at Colorado College, Cisco, whose birth name is Clay Edwards, finds time to write plays, act and rap. Below you can hear his latest single, “Vinyl,” off of his upcoming LP Future Real Estate,…
Music plays a surprisingly big part in the Star Wars saga, especially in the original trilogy, which of course are the only Star Wars flicks that are worth remembering—at least so far. From the Main Title to the Cantina tune to the Imperial March, they’re all classics. And don’t forget…
For the remaining original members of Caramel Carmela, it wasn’t an easy decision to call it quits. After almost seven years as a band, Jack Roberts and Sha Gipson had weathered van breakdowns, geographical distance from other bandmates and a seemingly constant stream of fill-in members. The band’s hybrid of…
For three decades the Reverend Horton Heat has been raising a ruckus with its rockabilly-meets-county-meets-punk party music, frontman Jim Heath holding countless audiences in the palm of his hand like a TV evangelist. Heath is the consummate rock and roll entertainer, and age hasn’t dulled his passion for his work. Not the performing part,…
What’s your stoned soundtrack of 2015? Yesterday WeedStream.net released its list of the top ten weed-related songs of the year. The list includes tracks from a few usual suspects, including Snoop Dogg and Kottonmouth Kings, but also notes surf-rockers Best Coast (“California Nights”) and British dance-pop duo The Ting Tings…
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…
Just about every month for the past two years, the words “Red Bull Sound Select Presents” have appeared on the marquees of small venues around Denver, usually accompanied by the name of some major national headliner (Bun B, Viet Cong, The Internet) and, on the ground, a line of eager…
Agnostic Front was one of the earliest of the New York hardcore bands having formed in 1980 before that term was widely used to describe the faster and more aggressive music that characterized that movement. Toward the middle of the decade, Agnostic Front was an early adopter of the crossover…
Adele, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning British singer-songwriter and reigning queen of cross-generational radio pop, just announced dates for her 2016 North American tour, and it includes two performances in Denver. On a tour that features a six-night stand at Madison Square Garden in New York, she will appear on July…
Jason Isbell’s story is one of recovery and redemption so it was only fitting that the backdrop he played in front of for Friday night’s show at the Ogden Theatre were large, church-like, stained glass windows. After being ousted by the Drive-By Truckers in 2011, the 36-year-old Alabama native took…
