Sure, there are massive parties and club nights where you can celebrate Halloween this weekend — but you’ll probably have more fun at an intimate gathering like Easy Killer: It’s a Halloween Party. Filled with local favorites — Roy England (pictured; Make Mistakes), Ejay (Hotbox, Spellbound Music), Khalib (Treehouse Collective,…
Celebrating 25 years of making music, Widespread Panic is setting out on its first-ever acoustic tour, which includes a three-night stand from Friday, February 10, to Sunday, February 12, at the Fillmore Auditorium. That stint will be followed up by a three-night stand from Friday, February 17, through Sunday, February…
If you read the Backbeat interview with Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody last week, you know he still thinks of Denver as home. And on Saturday night, Moody and his band — along with All That Remains and Hatebreed — played the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield. Resident metal-head and…
In less than a week (four days, to be exact), Rihanna has racked up over eight million views with her “We Found Love” video. And deservedly so. The song is catchy as hell, and the video, like the others the pop star has produced recently, is thought provoking. Rihanna is…
Finally! A little over a month after we posted word letting you know that Guns N’ Roses was headed to Colorado for its first tour in five years, we have a date. Mark your calendars: GNR (or at least whatever incarnation of the group Axl’s fronting these days) is coming…
Tamed Animals’ Dan Barnett has been incredibly busy kicking out an album every month since July. His latest, Return to the Sun, is as haunting as it is beautiful and offers the perfect mix of harsh noise, chaos and soft beats, making it the perfect Halloween accompaniment…
On Friday, we posted an item about the proposed $16 million settlement in the class action lawsuit involving Ticketmaster. If approved, every ticket buyer who was redirected to the reseller TicketsNow.com would be entitled to $10 or a rebate on a future purchases made through TicketsNow.com. Evidently, the mere mention…
TRENTEMØLLER at the OGDEN THEATRE | 10/21/11Though certainly not the dark horse by any electronic music connoisseur’s standards, Trentemøller’s performance Friday night at the Ogden Theatre was one for the books. Ribbon banners, flash-popping strobes, projectors, and a full five-piece band backed the Danish IDM musician, whose pass through Denver…
Update 10/21/11: More troubling news today out of the Springs. There’s been several reports filtering in last night and this afternoon that Aliester Wild guitarist Terry Span has passed away. We’ll post more details as they become available. Original item (10/12/11): There’s some troubling news coming out of the Springs…
Have plans this weekend? If not, as usual, there’s plenty of choices: Tonight, Jason Aldean’s at the Pepsi Center, Jim Hall’s at Dazzle and All Capitals is celebrating the release of its new CD at the hi-dive. On Saturday, Five Finger Death Punch hits the 1STBANK Center, Rene Marie’s at…
In 2009, a class action lawsuit was filed against Ticketmaster by ticket buyers who were automatically redirected by Ticketmaster to TicketsNow.com, a reseller charging prices above face value. Between 2008 and 2009, ticket buyers across the country purchasing tickets for shows by acts like Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and Radiohead,…
Danish sensation Trentmøller will make a rare Stateside appearance at the Ogden Theatre tonight; the former Trigbag member is back and better than ever after releasing Into the Great Wide Yonder in 2010. (9 p.m., 16+, $22-$25) And that’s far from the only thing happening in electronic music this weekend;…
Nothing is as polarizing these days in the Mile High City these days it seems as the Occupy Denver movement. In an effort to get some insight into the soul of Occupy Denver, we spoke with MC Sole, a musician who’s fully immersed in the movement, to get his perspective…
For close to three decades, Bob and Cathy Lyons ran the no-frills, nautical-themed Brown Barrel Tavern at 76 South Broadway. The bar was one of the last old-school joints in the Baker neighborhood, an area that was once full of them, and earned a nod in our Best of Denver…
We imagine this has been a pretty bittersweet week for the members of Gauntlet Hair. After being stranded in Montreal for a few days due to a busted van, the dudes have finally made it to New York just in time for CMJ. Though the repairs to the van left…
Herman’s Hideaway, celebrating its 29th anniversary next month, recently received some upgrades, including a new dance floor, new LED lighting system, a disco ball and a new Soundcraft Series Two soundboard, which soundman Danny Giltinan has been putting to good use. The men’s bathroom was also remodeled. Page down for…
The Occupy Wall Street movement is loosely modeled after the “Arab Spring” wave of demonstrations that swept through the Arab world. Immediately based upon civil resistance, civil disobedience and the overall right to general assembly, these protests have been sweeping the nation and the world. Protests are cropping up all…
Audio Visual Violence Club have just released its interpretation of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s “Like A Moth,” from its debut full-length, Sineater. In traditional AVVC style, the video takes footage from older films — in this case, George Kuchar’s Hold Me While I’m Naked and Storm de Hirsch’s Peyote Queen…
Last week when we started talking about the first album that we bought with our own money, everybody had a story. Some were laudable (Ready to Die) and some were laughable (Savage Garden), but everybody had a story. And as we suspected, we weren’t alone. When we asked you to…
Although Primus was last in Denver only back in August, opening for the Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, the San Francisco band and ’90s radio staple took top billing for two nights in Denver this week at the Ogden Theatre. See photos from the show below…
Eric Shiveley has steadily progressed as a filmmaker over the years. Since first making his cinematic debut almost four years ago with Everyone but You, the documentary he shot, directed, edited and produced all by his lonesome, Shiveley has gotten a handle on this whole moving-pictures thing. As with his…
Do you remember the first album you bought with your own money? Of course you do! It’s like the first person you kissed or the first one who broke your heart — it’s a monumental, life-changing moment in your life that’s unforgettable. Well, that is, of course, unless the first…
