Tennis on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night: Did you catch it? The “duo from Denver,” as Leno introduced the act, performed “Origins” from the new album, Young & Old, and brought along a few familiar faces from Denver. Even thought they didn’t see much face time, it…
Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, who reunited last year for the first time since 2005 to start work on a new album, just announced a sixteen-date North American tour that stops at the Temple Buell Theatre on Sunday, August 19 and then wraps up on September 7…
EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS @ OGDEN THEATRE | 3/22/12 Fresh off their stint at South By Southwest, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros delivered a strong dose of their tent-revival mania to Denver last night. Strutting a fine line between sunshine hippie cult and televangelist showmanship, the band…
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Brad Paisley to Tim Tebow…are you there, Tim Tebow? This just in: Evidently, you have some other suitors who are interested in you besides New York and Jacksonville, Timmy. Brad Paisley — you remember him, right, the dude who pulled you up on stage back in January at the Pepsi…
Happy Birthday, Twitter. The micro-blogging that gave the world trending topics and the Fail Whale turns five years old today. While the site might not be old enough for first grade in human years, in Internet years, it might as well have Willard Scott wishing it a happy 100th birthday…
Update 3/21/12: Cookie Monsta’s Ogden Theatre show has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 12. Zomboy is also on the bill. Another Ogden Theatre show change to alert you to: Cookie Monsta, originally slated to perform at the Ogden on Saturday, March 24, with J Rabbit, Dodger and Dirt Monkey has…
We’ve got a slew of new hip-hop to share with you this week: BLKHRTS collaborate with Rockie and Innerstate Ike on FOE’s joint, “My Team Winning”; Six O’Clock and friends, meanwhile, represent the underground with their Mobb Deep/Alchemist-esque joint as Subculture Icons; Fort Collins MC Moss gets his drunk textin’…
The space at 2301 Blake Street has gone through a number of incarnations over the last few decades, including a run as Polly Esther’s. In June 2010, the Blake Street Tavern moved into the space after its seven-year run at its former location a block north, and in February last…
Norah Jones, who debuted songs from her forthcoming album at SXSW last week, kicks off her North American summer tour in June in Indianaplolis and wraps it up at Red Rocks on Thursday, August 23. Her Danger Mouse-produced album, Little Broken Hearts, hits stores on May 1 via Blue Note…
Oh, Tim Tebow, how we are going to miss him. It’s hard to believe it’s been only a little over two years since he began turning professional football into a platform for religious expression. Now that Tebowmania is officially coming to an end in Denver, we thought it would be…
Last November, you might recall, Chris “Citrus” Sauthoff (U.S. Pipe, Lord of Word, P-Funk) suffered a minor stroke, and as a result, the gifted guitarist lost some of the feeling in his picking hand. “It was one of the scariest times I’ve ever had in my life,” recalls Sauthoff’s wife,…
With Blue Like Jazz, the screen adaptation of Donald Miller’s New York Times best-selling book, Steve Taylor has done for film exactly what he did for music in the early to mid-’80s — namely, give the staid world of Christian-centric art a much needed jolt of vitality. In the same…
Kiss and Mötley Crüe. Wednesday, August 8, Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, together on the same bill. Holy crap! The twelve-year-old me would no doubt being stroking out right now upon hearing this news. As it stands, the grown up version of me is pretty excited, too, truth be told. Tickets, which…
Update 3/20/12: Great news if you missed out on getting tickets to Bassnectar’s sold out show at Red Rocks on Saturday, June 2. Another date has been added on Friday, June 1! Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 23, at 10 a.m. Bassnectar at Red Rocks: Confirmed! At SnowBall…
Marc Broussard is happy to veer from the beaten path. The Louisiana-based singer, songwriter and bandleader just wrapped up a tour following the release of last year’s self-titled album, but he’s itching to make a detour before heading to L.A. and starting a new recording. With that in mind, Broussard…
Tyga, best known for his joint, “Rack City,” was supposed to rock the Ogden Theatre tonight, but we’ve just received word that the show has been postponed for a later date. No reason was given for the postponement, but earlier today, Vibe and a number of other news outlets reported…
Rod Blackhurst is making a documentary about Kenny G., and he needs your help. No, really. Quit laughing. Appearances to the contrary, this is not a joke. That’s what we thought, at first, too. But we spoke with Blackhurst, and he’s so serious, in fact, that he and his partner…
Last week, organizers of the upcoming SnowMont Music Festival, slated to take place on March 30 and through April 1 in Killington, Vermont, announced the cancellation of the event. This news was puzzling primarily because those same organizers are the ones responsible for Snowball Music Festival, which took place a…
Here’s what’s hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Cypress Hill, the Fray, Kaskade and Mojo Nixon were announced; Lola Black, Fresh Breath Committee and the Autumn Film got spins on local radio; and recent albums from Bruce Springsteen, Andrew Bird,…
The impending arrival of spring signals the welcome return of festival season. One of the lineups we’ve waiting for has been revealed. Sonic Bloom founders have announced a handful of acts for the annual fest, slated to take place just outside of Georgetown from Thursday, June 21, through Sunday, June…
Before moving to Colorado in 1964, jazz guitarist Dale Bruning spent about four and a half years studying with the legendary Dennis Sandole, who was John Coltrane’s teacher and mentor early in his career. After a few years of studying with Sandole, Bruning landed a gig as leader of the…
